STAFF REPORT
The Hays Austin Community College campus is now under construction.
The city of Kyle issued the site development permit and building permits (one for each floor) in mid-October. The buyout of subcontracts is now 95 percent complete.
In late October, Flintco Constructive Solutions moved on-site and set up several trailers with temporary utilities. The company also installed perimeter security fencing and two separate construction entrances – one for the project-management team near the trailers and a second for the rest of the contractor and sub-contractor workforce. Roadway Specialties, the erosion-control subcontractor, then came in and set up the erosion-control systems required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) around the perimeter of limits of construction boundary. Next, earthwork subcontractor Champion spent several weeks clearing and scrubbing the site of debris and trash trees. Champion also rough-graded the site, forming and setting the building pad and parking lot pads to the specified elevations, as shown on the civil construction documents. Champion also excavated the re-irrigation pond along the eastern property boundary, near the train tracks.
In early November, Gibson Concrete, the concrete subcontractor, drilled more than 50 piers for the building foundation, placed the rebar cages and poured concrete. Site utilities subcontractor Haegelin currently is trenching into rock below what will be the first-floor slab, to set all the domestic water and wastewater piping, electrical conduit, lightning protection and telecommunications duct-bank routes. The edge of the perimeter for the first-floor foundation has been established with formwork. Anchor bolts for the pier-caps also have been placed, to lock into the perimeter grade beams of the concrete foundation.
During Thanksgiving week, Flintco began to pour the concrete foundation of the first floor’s north wing. Two other sections – the middle section and the south wing – will be poured by mid-December. The first-floor structural steel columns are to arrive on site around the first of the new year, beginning the setting of the foundation.
