AUSTIN | Dell Seton Med Center at U.T. | 232 FT | 14 FLRS | Vert Expansion U/C

[KevinFromTexas]

Southwest elevation (along Waller Creek).



East elevation



Northeast elevation



Main entrance (east elevation) facing Red River Street.



Southeast elevation (along Red River Street).



North elevation



Northwest elevation



West elevation



Southwest elevation



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The building marked "hospital".

[KevinFromTexas]

The civil engineering plans were released today for the Seton Medical Center at University of Texas. They included the building elevations on pages 30 and 31.

The plans show the building to be 162 feet to the mechanical penthouse, and 147 feet to the main roof with 10 floors as measured on the west side of the building along Waller Creek. The property slopes down 20 feet from Red River Street toward the creek. The tower is 9 floors along Red River Street and 10 floors along Waller Creek.

The building will face Red River Street. The address is 1500 Red River Street. It will be at what will be the northwest corner of Red River Street & East 15th Street.

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...s_PLANS_02.pdf

At 162 feet it will make it 1 foot taller than Brackenridge Hospital which is currently Austin's tallest hospital.

[KevinFromTexas]

Judging from the elevations for the hospital and the renderings, the other two new buildings should also be highrises. I'd say the Admin building will probably be around 130 feet and the research building will be around 145 feet.

By the way, the hospital is probably a little more than 162 feet tall because the building elevations show the roof to be completely flat, whereas the renderings show a few roof access "boxes" above that flat roof. So maybe another 7 or 8 feet. I may email the architect to see what they say.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl...ital-name.html

Apr 17, 2014, 2:33pm CDT
Seton unveils teaching hospital name

Chad Swiatecki
Staff Writer-
Austin Business Journal

Seton Healthcare Family’s new teaching hospital at the University of Texas’ Dell Medical School complex will be known as Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas.

Hospital system officials unveiled the name Thursday ahead of a ceremony Monday to mark the start of construction of the medical school.

Construction on the new $295 million hospital, which will replace University Medical Center Brackenridge, is slated to begin later this year with an opening slated for 2017.

[KevinFromTexas]

It'll pretty much be where that grassy area and rectangular parking lot are, and will extend north to that 3-story concrete building.

[Digatisdi]

A few of the renderings (specifically the third one) remind me of parts of the university college hospital near Euston in London. I remember it being really nice with all the natural light.

[Jdawgboy]

This is really gonna be huge for Austin. By all accounts, this will be the largest producer in jobs for a specific entity this century with an estimated 15,000 new jobs associated with the Medical school, not to mention the residual effects it will have by bringing in new medical companies.

I'd really like to see picture updates on a regular basis to follow the huge transformation that area is going through and in a pretty short amount of time too.

[Austin1971]

Originally Posted by Jdawgboy

This is really gonna be huge for Austin. By all accounts, this will be the largest producer in jobs for a specific entity this century with an estimated 15,000 new jobs associated with the Medical school, not to mention the residual effects it will have by bringing in new medical companies.

I'd really like to see picture updates on a regular basis to follow the huge transformation that area is going through and in a pretty short amount of time too.

Think Boston and Raleigh/Durham. I agree this is Austin's next boom and think it's going to be huge.....

Kevin are they exempt from view corridors since they are a state entity?

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by Austin1971

Kevin are they exempt from view corridors since they are a state entity?

I don't think so. I found this permit request for a capitol view corridor height determination for the building.

https://www.austintexas.gov/devrevie...erRSN=11208539

[Jdawgboy]

I'm sure this was covered already but how much of the area is covered by the CVC?

[Austin1971]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

I don't think so. I found this permit request for a capitol view corridor height determination for the building.

https://www.austintexas.gov/devrevie...erRSN=11208539

Thanks Kevin. I think they need to go bigger. The original plans seem a bit small for such a burgeoning metro.

[KevinFromTexas]

With the way they've designed it they'll have room for expansion no doubt with new tower wings above that 2-story podium along Red River.

The interior of the medical center is free of capitol view corridors, but it is bordered to the north and south by them. That's actually going to force them to go more vertical in order to have the space they need. I wouldn't be surprised if several of the new buildings/expansions reach 200 feet or more.

[The ATX]

Three tower cranes for this one. That makes a total of seven tower cranes so far for medical school related projects.

https://www.austintexas.gov/devrevie...erRSN=11219768

[KevinFromTexas]

There are 4 corridors that run through what will be the medical center.

This building will sit between 3 of them.

[KevinFromTexas]

By the way, I was looking at the permit for the cranes, and on the diagram for the building it shows the building sections labeling the floor counts of each. Anyway, for the main tower - the 9-story section facing Red River Street, it notes that there is a plan for a "4-story future expansion." So they may be planning to add 4 more floors to the main tower eventually for a total of 13 floors facing Red River Street. Of course there is an extra floor on the west side of the building facing Waller Creek. If you look at the renderings, it does appear to be designed so that more floors could be added. In fact, most several of the buildings appear that way.

Right now the 10th floor of the building is planned to be 147 feet above the street. Right now the breakdown is 147 feet / 10 floors = 14.7 feet per floor. So 4 more floors would be another 58.8 feet. That would push the top floor height to 205 feet. Above that is the mechanical penthouse, which if they maintain the same scale and design as it is today, that would push the height to 220 feet.


That image also shows the routes of the capitol view corridors around the building.

ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...rane_PLANS.pdf

[KevinFromTexas]

That link didn't work. Which one is the Beck Building?

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

That link didn't work. Which one is the Beck Building?

I fixed the link. Beck is the builder and it's the six story building being built next to the Erwin Center on the south side:


http://www.utexas.edu/news/files/Vie...8091917552.jpg

[JoninATX]

Ascension Seton announces $280M expansion of Dell Seton Medical Center at UT


4 additional floors will be added on top the existing one.

April 10th 2023

AUSTIN, Texas — Ascension Seton announced on Monday it's investing $280 million to expand Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas to meet the needs of the increasing population of Central Texas.

The construction of the upgrade will begin this summer.

The expansion will add 150 beds and more than 160,000 square feet that include surgical, clinical, and outpatient space, a Neurosciences Center of Excellence, and additional ICU space. Other additions include a third level on the building facing Red River Street and four new stories built atop the existing patient tower.

“The original intent of the hospital built in 2017 was always that it would need to expand on its footprint even then, and so this is a good time for us to expand,” said Messer.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/asc...exas-at-austin

[KevinFromTexas]

There was an FAA filing today for a 320 foot tower crane at the location of Dell Seton Medical Center.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...73403094&row=5

Work Schedule: 08/06/2023 to 02/06/2025

This lists the building height as 232 feet.
https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...73567419&row=7

[SproutingTowers]

Dell Seton Medical Center

[Riverranchdrone]

Did they move the Helipad then? Might fly my drone over there today.