Project Manager: Pamela Collier, 223-1012

Architect/Engineer: Barnes Gromatzky Kosarek Architects

Contractor: SpawGlass Contractors, Inc.

Status (Updated 11/25/08):

Work on the new Austin Community College Rio Grande Campus Parking Garage has begun.

Now it’s time to bring in the big equipment necessary to build the seven-story structure.

This milestone brings us another step closer to providing ACC faculty and staff with more than 540 new parking spaces and a new bookstore by next fall!

Status (Updated 10/31/08):
The structural piers are currently being drilled. The piers extend below ground to bearing strata that will support the building. Anywhere between one and six piers a day have been drilled at an average of 2.5 piers per day due to soil material, depth of piers, and encountering the water table on every pier. There will be a total of 76 piers for the parking garage and SpawGlass anticipates completion of pier drilling operations by mid-November.

ACC secured a site development permit from the City of Austin today (Oct. 31) and is expecting the building permit within a few weeks. SpawGlass will be erecting a crane onsite on or about November 22.

The design team is diligently working on designing the 7th level. The Austin Community College District and the City of Austin have reached an agreement to allow an additional floor be added to the parking garage. The parking garage will consist of seven levels and will include a total of 543 parking spaces – 90 spaces more than originally planned. The height limitation applicable to the parking garage under zoning and compatibility standards is seventy-five (75) feet measured from the highest level of the ground to the floor level of the top floor of the garage. Parapet walls, which are wall-like barriers placed at the edge of the top level, and shade structures on the top floor are permitted and will not be taken into account in measuring the height of the parking garage. The seven-level parking garage will measure sixty-three (63) feet high – comparable to a four-story office building.

The parking garage is expected to open in August 2009 for the fall semester.

Related Posts:

• Update – Rio Grande Campus Parking Garage 1 (12-10-2008)
• Update – Rio Grande Campus Parking Garage 2 (1-5-2009)
• Update – Rio Grande Campus Parking Garage 3 (1-26-2009)
• Being a Good Neighbor During Construction (1-12-2009)