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Chevron Skyscraper Proposal At 1600 Louisiana St.


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Chevron Phillips is a separate company.  It is owned 50% by Chevron and 50% by Phillips 66 and has its headquarters in The Woodlands.  Chevron has had a capital budget of ~$40 billion per year for the past several years and plans to stay in the $35-40 Billion range for the next several years.  The 50% of the Chevron Phillips budget that is accounted to Chevron is still a small component of its projected spending.

 

 

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 Disappointing. More overruns on the Australian gas plant? Or another excuse?

 

My information came from someone who deals with the financial side of things. So, i assume it has something to do with their financial position and financial outlook. But, with big companies, information is not always transperant. He might be consider the "hold" as the year to start this... thats why we have to take it with a grain of salt.

 

There are a few people on this forum with actual knowledge of this project.  I dont know any big wigs at chevron, but i do know this:

 

HOK has produced 100% CD drawings that are ready for permit.  The contractor (Skanska) now has a big team working full time on this project.

 

Now as in they just started putting resources in this? Is 3Q start confirmed by Skanska? My source was not a big wig, and I hope he just is possibly incorrect.

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Just because they have the plans being worked on doesn't mean it will be built any time soon. My father worked on the second Anadarko tower in the Woodlands back in the early 2000's and they only just finished constructing it. This way, when Chevron finally decides to construct this tower, they will have minimal design updates.

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Why the hell would they walk away from a project as big as this? They'll do the design, Chevron will pay them a large sum, and they will have a small team dedicated to updating as necessary.

If you think that Skanska has the entire company focused on this one project then you really don't what you're talking about. They get paid whether the tower goes up or not. That's how the construction works works.

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Obviously not, but Chevron will still pay them to design it. No company is above making money. Skanska wins whether this goes up now or a few years. How is that hard to understand?

Seriously? Skanska is NOT a design firm, they are a construction company. They only make money if they BUILD the tower.

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Seriously? Skanska is NOT a design firm, they are a construction company. They only make money if they BUILD the tower.

 

I have to respectfully correct you. Skanska is a design-build firm. Which means they have structural engineers on staff to design their projects. That being said, the amound of money they make on design is chump change compared to construction. 

 

http://www.usa.skanska.com/about-skanska/our-services/

Design-build

In 1989, Skanska became one of the first construction firms to offer the advantages of design-build construction to our clients. Since then, we have been awarded numerous turnkey design-build contracts, including site selection analysis and configuration and some of the largest transportation systems built in the U.S. Skanska’s expertise extends to our private clients' needs for world-class facilities that are delivered on-time and within budget. As a leader of the consortium that constructed JFK’s AirTrain Light Rail System, one of the nation’s first billion dollar design-build-operate-maintain projects, we have a proven track record of successful design-build project delivery.

 

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I have breaking OFFICIAL NEWS from top CHEVRON SOURCES:

I was told that this project MAY OR MAY NOT HAPPEN in 2015, and/or in the forseeable future.

There you have it folks, straight from the horses mouth.

Howard - Mr Ed does not count as an actual source, nor does he work for Chevron. He works for Texaco ...get it straight.

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HOK is the architect and engineer of record on this project.  Skanska is in construction manager / general contractor.  On this project they will not serve in a design build position.

 

Skanska is currently planning the construction: cranes, schedule, city coordination, etc.  Cool story time:  There are steel columns on this project that will weight in excess of 900lbs per LF.  There are less that 20 cranes in the world right now that make the cut for this project (weight limit, availability, cost, etc).

 

Again, I am not 100% anything.  I am just telling you what these people are working on.  If you really want to know what the schedule is talk to someone at Kone or Mitsubishi.  The elevator guys are always involved early and end up with all the juicy details.

 

 

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HOK is the architect and engineer of record on this project. Skanska is in construction manager / general contractor. On this project they will not serve in a design build position.

Skanska is currently planning the construction: cranes, schedule, city coordination, etc. Cool story time: There are steel columns on this project that will weight in excess of 900lbs per LF. There are less that 20 cranes in the world right now that make the cut for this project (weight limit, availability, cost, etc).

Again, I am not 100% anything. I am just telling you what these people are working on. If you really want to know what the schedule is talk to someone at Kone or Mitsubishi. The elevator guys are always involved early and end up with all the juicy details.

When a steel frame is erected in a modern skycraper, dont they normally use drawworks in the basement to hoist all the steel beams into place?

I know thats how that built the Transco tower.

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No apology needed; you're doing fine, man, er, ma'am, er whatever... :P

I'm pretty sure he's a man, if you didn't catch the love feud him and some other poster had in one of the subforums. That and his user profile says male. But maybe he was born female, or trans. Whatever makes you happy!

 

It's great we're getting a steel structure! I pray every night they add just 5-10 more floors to really level the skyline, or some magnificent LED crown.

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