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Spring 1992
Austin Puts Together A Winning Team To Work On The Convention Center thousand requests for information, Jeff Scott has had to spend a lot of time ensuring that the RFIs are kept in order.
The new convention center rotunda Austin has a lot to offer visi tors. Apart from being the state capitol, it has one of our lead ing universities, it is a cultural center, and it is set in one of the most scenic areas of Texas. Now, with the new Convention Center scheduled to open on July 4, the city will have yet another major attraction. The new center, built in the heart of downtown Austin, minutes from Town Lake and the Civic Center, was designed by Architects Page, Suther land, Page. It covers nine acres of land and includes 28 differ ent floor levels of exhibit areas, meeting rooms, offices, eating facilities and outdoor terraces overlooking Red River. The main part of the building consists of 126,000 square feet of column-free exhibit space, a 24,000-square foot ballroom with serving from pantry areas, and 20 meeting rooms for groups of 10 to 1,000 people, a lavish executive suite, nine
covered loading docks, two ac cess ramps, and numerous entrances. Servicing the exhibition areas are state-of-the-art utilities services that include voice, video, CATV, telephone and data communications, as well as fiber optic and satellite up link and down link capabilities. In addition, all the exhibit halls will have built-in adjustable halide lighting levels.
Ceiling and Panels Foreman Gay land Landfried. For three months our crews have been working days as well as nights in order to gain access to the lifts. In addition, with over a
According to Nick Sukup, everyone is doing a good job on this pTO]Qct:nThrough our good working relationship with Spaw Glass and their on site management team，we have been able to achieve the quality product everyone expected，” he reports.
Working with General Con tractors SAE/Spaw Glass, Acoustical Ceilings Project Manager Juan DeHoyos and Estimator Bob Lynch from the San Antonio Office, along with Nick Sukup in the Austin Of fice, worked on securing the dry wall and acoustical ceilings contracts for the whole center. Working to an increasingly tight schedule, the job is demanding hard work and team effort under the direction of Drywall Foreman Danny Holland and Acoustical
The many different features of the design are certainly keep ing the project interesting. In the meeting rooms, for exam ple, the ceilings consist of 2 by 2 lights, acoustical panels, and track lighting, with more holes in the ceilings than sheetrock. A special snorkel lift was used to install sheetrock in the 80foot rotunda while Ray Draper did an excellent job in stalling some trickly z-furring for the panels. MBS has also been installing vapor barriers, metal studs and gypsum sheathing, as well as complet ing the 270-foot long, 33-foot high sound wall, 24 feet off the floor.
Ray Draper and Jimmy Lopez working in the Rotunda
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A project of this size takes hard work and dedication from eve ryone on the team. Special rec ognition goes to Labor Foreman Ray Garza, Layout and Framing Foreman Ben Oyler, Steve Redden - who has been repsonsible for the lightcovers blackout and shade pockets, and Framing Sheetrock Foremen Ray Leyendecker and Jeff Bradley