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Construction
June./July 1986
Barton Creek Club
TIC completing spa, clubhouse, conference center
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Members will soon be enjoy ing Barton Creek Club in Austin, Texas, a three-facility pri vate country club situated in the city s surrounding hill country. TIC is doing the interior construction for Bentex Construc pm tion Corporation. The new country club fea tures a three level clubhouse s‘i k A.-C, with formal and private dining cT1 'Wareas, parlor, library, wine cellar, er **■ >L private meeting rooms, Grand ’-rt ballroom, pro shop, and guest lodging. A second facility will be used as a spa, with indoor running track, indoor pool, aero The Barton Creek Country Club in Austin, Texas caters to a variety of client needs with bics and weight training areas, clubhouse, spa and conference center situated in the scenic Hill Country. locker rooms and a special body wrap section. The third building sloped ceilings and light coves in trucks out of ditches they slid is a five-story Executive Confer- manufactured wall angles. Nick the conference facility. into after a rain made the dirt assisted on redesigning the ceilence Center where meeting . Nick says the project has in- roads slick, and some of the men rooms are supplied with state-of- ing to support the weight. “The volved careful sequencing to had a hard time finding the the-art audio-visual equipment. ceiling work was really complicated,” Nick remarks. “There was keep traffic down onsite, and to jobsite.” The conference facility is keep work going in an orderly Overall, however, production a lot of radius ceiling work and designed to accommodate any fashion. Although crews get the is going well despite the complisize or type of conference, and "head conditions over the benefit of a good view to work cations and difficult location of windows.” provides lodging and dining from in the Hill Country, the lo- the jobsite. Superintending the The spa and conference areas for participants. cation has also had its problems, job with TIC is Dusty Lobb. center construction is similar, According to TIC project Nick explains, “We’ve had two Drywall foreman on the clubmanager Nick Sukup, the coun- Special reinforced gypboard was house and conference facility is used in the wet areas in the spa, trucks of sheetrock dump over try club has been a fast track trying to get up these inclines. Bob Karcher and Steve Bechtel core and finish-out so far. TIC’s and crews contended with a Bulldozers had to push some is drywall foreman on the spa. radius amphitheater ceiling, work includes exterior studs, ** "** «f>>
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sheathing, interior light gauge framing, thermal and sound insu lation, drywall and acoustical ceiling. Construction began in November of ’85. Says Nick, “We’ve had a lot of meetings to sequence the work with other trades. It seems we’re one step in front and one step behind everyone else.” Nick says the clubhouse and spa both involve complicated conditions, requiring extra attention. The clubhouse involves a 12x12 con cealed ceiling system and
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