Don't know about this project, but several underground parking garages have vault doors to section off areas of the garage, as needed. If flooding occurs, they prevent it from continuing on to other areas to protect people, cars, and the rest of the building. Think of it like sections of a ship. They can be manually opened or closed through a computer system or work off of sensors. I can't get any more technical than that, however...that's the limit of my knowledge on this subject. I've just seen a bunch in the city I used to live in in China that was right on the Yangzi River - and freak rains could bring large-scale flooding.

Houston started adding them after Tropical Storm Allison. They forgot to close one in their City Hall Annex garage during May storms this year and ended up losing 16 city vehicles. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news...ke-6303016.php

The flooding controls are included in the engineering plans. It makes reference to this flood control device on the overall plans, but here is the smoking gun.

This is from permit attachments, see page 40.

http://i.imgur.com/pzGEgHI.png

Long time lurker, first time poster. Here is an updated photo I took of the hole being dug. Word on the street is that the pools of water aren't from rain. It appears that they hit an unplanned water feature that they will have to deal with before they do foundation work.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/654/2..." height="651"

Thanks for the update. We look forward to more:cheers:

It looks like you're in the Cirrus Logic building from the angle. Is that correct? Thanks for the photo!

Looks like they have hit bottom. The new swimming pool is still there. It also appears like the concrete retaining wall in the northwest corner has some stability issues. There is a very large crack running parallel with the sidewalk that has recently formed. There is also a large vertical crack in the retaining wall located right above the large pile of rubble in the pic. Both of these cracks can be seen in the photo right below the street entrance to WF.



https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1470/...5a63655b_b.jpg

There is now a construction site webcam online.

http://shoalcreekwalk.com/construction/

http://webcampub.multivista.com/inde...=1453905894740

Cool. I added the link to the first post of this thread for easy reference.

Nice find Mopacs. We can see Aspen Heights too! The camera moves around and was pointed at Whole Foods garage this morning.

I wish we had a thread, perhaps stuck to the top of the forum, that has links to all the active construction webcams around Austin.

That's a good idea. I would also use it to list all of the active construction projects with links to their threads.

Their website has a nice 360 pano of Downtown:

http://shoalcreekwalk.com/

These first two renderings from their website seem to show two different designs.

http://i.imgur.com/WGzrIQK.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/AQ66blW.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/BJnGii1.jpg

I see the same design in all 3 pictures.

In the first two images, which are from the same side, it looks like there's a setback on the right side of the building in the image on the right that is missing in the image on the left. Unless it's an optical illusion.

Optical illusion.

I guess so. If they had only released the rendering on the left I would have thought that was a setback, but I guess it is an optical illusion, based on the other two images.

Not horrible, but not my favorite. I hope they hide the garage better than that.

If I'm understanding what you're pointing out, then I do see the setback. But I see it in all 3 pictures. That's why I said they were all the same rendering.