Haynes Whaley Associates » Concrete http://hwablog.com/blog Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:31:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Tellepsen YMCA Downtown Houston http://hwablog.com/blog/2009/07/tellepsen-ymca-downtown-houston/ http://hwablog.com/blog/2009/07/tellepsen-ymca-downtown-houston/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:42:39 +0000 Tan Tran http://hwablog.com/blog/?p=190 Have you driven around downtown Houston lately? If so, you may have noticed the construction site for a new YMCA facility located at Pease and Milam. Haynes Whaley is providing structural engineering services for this project, working with the architect, Kirksey, and the general contractor, Tellepsen. This new YMCA facility will bear the Tellepsen family name, and will replace an older facility located just a few blocks away. You may have also noticed the black plastic wrapping the top of several concrete columns on the site (see the picture below). The plastic wrap is not concealing special techniques, but rather protecting the finish to deliver the quality specified by Kirksey. Tellepsen wrapped the exposed reinforcement steel of all columns in order to prevent the materials from rusting and staining the sides of the exposed concrete columns.

Tellepsen YMCA under constructionTellepsen YMCA

]]> http://hwablog.com/blog/2009/07/tellepsen-ymca-downtown-houston/feed/ 0 2nd Largest Mat Pour in U.S. http://hwablog.com/blog/2009/05/2nd-largest-mat-pour-in-us/ http://hwablog.com/blog/2009/05/2nd-largest-mat-pour-in-us/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 17:42:25 +0000 Fred Dally http://hwablog.com/blog/?p=73 In December 2008, Haynes Whaley Associates participated in the concrete mat foundation pours for the new Administrative Support Building for The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.   Vaughn Construction, together with Baker Concrete Construction, completed the first 4,000 cubic yard mat pour on December 12th at a rate of 570 cubic yards per hour.  The second, larger mat pour was completed on December 19th in about 22 hours.  It totaled 17,500 cubic yards.  Seven concrete pumpers were used, supplied by about 100 concrete trucks.  1,960 tons of steel reinforcement were used in this pour.  Over 2,400 man-hours were expended.

The ASB mat pour is the second largest building mat foundation constructed in the United States of America.  It is second only to the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The scale of this construction required participation from all involved, including the architect, WHR; the geotechnical engineer, Ulrich Engineers; the testing lab, Earth Engineering; and the concrete consultant, Carrasquillo Associates, LTD.

Mark ThompsonASB mat pour

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