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IluvATX · #**1701** Posted **Jul 19, 2022, 1:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by WestAustinite

I have always wondered how they place piers so precisely on these high rise projects. Is this done with ultra precise GPS? Lasers? Good old fashioned surveying tools?

They most likely use a total station.

JACKinBeantown · #**1702** Posted **Jul 19, 2022, 3:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by WestAustinite

I have always wondered how they place piers so precisely on these high rise projects. Is this done with ultra precise GPS? Lasers? Good old fashioned surveying tools?

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bobbywest87 · #**1703** Posted **Jul 19, 2022, 4:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by WestAustinite

I have always wondered how they place piers so precisely on these high rise projects. Is this done with ultra precise GPS? Lasers? Good old fashioned surveying tools?

360_Ray · #**1704** Posted **Jul 20, 2022, 9:17 PM**

Large pier on Guadalupe edge getting concrete. Yellow pier driller drilled matching holes on each side of core pit on George/Ringo end. Several piers have been drilled on the north edge of the building. They have to be close to done with them right? Not as much steelworker activity. They've done 150+ piers I am guessing.

Large backhoe using jackhammer attachment to make sharp edges in pit and break up the next level of soil to be removed in the center.

360_Ray · #**1705** Posted **Jul 22, 2022, 3:39 PM**

They hauled off the small portable office and a flatbed is loading up several of the steel pier collars and assorted drilling bits so we must see light at the end of our pier drilling tunnel.

Excavation continues on the western edge of the central core pit. On the eastern edge of the pit workers and a small backhoe are cleaning out the sand that they topped off the pier with when it was originally drilled and filled.

bobbywest87 · #**1706** Posted **Jul 22, 2022, 10:19 PM**

Not to bring this up again, but is there any official word on the 710' height? I know renderings aren't a good source for height info, but most of the renderings seem to indicate this as being shorter than both The Independent and The Austonian.

The ATX · #**1707** Posted **Jul 22, 2022, 10:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by bobbywest87

Not to bring this up again, but is there any official word on the 710' height? I know renderings aren't a good source for height info, but most of the renderings seem to indicate this as being shorter than both The Independent and The Austonian.

710' is from the approved elevations.

bobbywest87 · #**1708** Posted **Jul 23, 2022, 12:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

710' is from the approved elevations.

Thank you. Where do you find info on approved elevations at?

The ATX · #**1709** Posted **Jul 23, 2022, 11:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by bobbywest87

Thank you. Where do you find info on approved elevations at?

The elevations are in files attached to the project's site plan application that can be found in the City's building permit search portal.

The approved elevations are usually added to the site plan within a couple weeks after it is approved and released. Typically they are in one file called "Plans" but sometimes every page of the plans can be a separate image file which is annoying.

The latest but not approved elevations are usually added to the site plan application during the approval process. They are usually in a file named "AW Redlines". Sometimes they can be downloaded from Bluebeam. The Bluebeam link when available can be found in one of the City's "Comments" files.

And sometimes when elevations (or at least the approved elevations) are not available from the City, I'll make comment on here or through Twitter about not having them, and someone working on the project sends them to me.

kmack · #**1710** Posted **Jul 25, 2022, 3:33 PM**

Current Arch drawings show the top of the parapet at the crown elevation at 807'-10"

Jdawgboy · #**1711** Posted **Jul 25, 2022, 5:05 PM**

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Current Arch drawings show the top of the parapet at the crown elevation at 807'-10"

So does that mean this will actually be an 800 footer???

Echostatic · #**1712** Posted **Jul 25, 2022, 5:10 PM**

No, you always have to subtract 100' from the numbers on the elevations, so it's 707'-10"

Jdawgboy · #**1713** Posted **Jul 25, 2022, 5:17 PM**

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No, you always have to subtract 100' from the numbers on the elevations, so it's 707'-10"

Well that sucks, a couple feet shorter than we thought. boo ��

Really it's gonna be so close to the Austonian and Independent heights, from many vantage points it will look basically the same height. Overall the Austonian IMO tends to stand out the most as "taller" than the Independent except looking from the Westside. From the south the two look the same in height.

The ATX · #**1714** Posted **Jul 25, 2022, 5:39 PM**

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Current Arch drawings show the top of the parapet at the crown elevation at 807'-10"

And the starting point is 0 and not 100?

kmack · #**1715** Posted **Jul 25, 2022, 6:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jdawgboy

So does that mean this will actually be an 800 footer???

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No, you always have to subtract 100' from the numbers on the elevations, so it's 707'-10"

I did not verify what the starting datum elevation is...

kmack · #**1716** Posted **Jul 25, 2022, 6:22 PM**

Just went back and looked at it more...
It looks like the starting datum elevation is at 100'-0. So total hgt would be 707'-10"

Sorry for the confusion...

Jdawgboy · #**1717** Posted **Jul 26, 2022, 4:17 AM**

Don't get me wrong, This is going to look amazing on the skyline. The tower itself will look larger than either the Austonian or Independent. Would just be nice if there was another 100 feet added. I think in a few years, we may be having a conversation similar to how we've discussed Frost Bank and how it would have looked so much cooler if it was a couple hundred feet taller.

DougRockstead · #**1718** Posted **Jul 26, 2022, 11:07 AM**

Agreed.
As much as I like the look of the building, I think from street level it will be bovious to everyone that someone took the legs out from under this building. Would look great if it was taller.

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Originally Posted by Jdawgboy

Don't get me wrong, This is going to look amazing on the skyline. The tower itself will look larger than either the Austonian or Independent. Would just be nice if there was another 100 feet added. I think in a few years, we may be having a conversation similar to how we've discussed Frost Bank and how it would have looked so much cooler if it was a couple hundred feet taller.

drummer · #**1719** Posted **Jul 26, 2022, 4:00 PM**

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An update from Towers:

https://austin.towers.net/[email protected]

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The money shot:

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Did it mention the official height anywhere in the article? It seems like this version of the tower may be slightly shorter than the 710 ft one proposed in 2018. Could just be the angle.

2018 Tower Render (710 ft):

And a screenshot shared above by myBrain from "The Republic Film":

Reminder for me and anyone else...

360_Ray · #**1720** Posted **Jul 26, 2022, 6:24 PM**

More piers drilled along north edge of central core in a line going up towards the offices. Now drilling on east side. More haul-off of drilling sleeves and spoil in SE corner. Backhoe has excavated 3/4 of the central core and they are slowly cleaning out the sand from the piers down to the concrete.

Is it me or do the exposed rebar piers remind anyone else of the hatching eggs in the Aliens movie?