There is nothing to take pics of yet. That equiptment that was used, was pulled right out... Taking soil samples is hardly "ground" breaking... I will go by there this weekend and take some pics...to make everyone happy....
Formula1.com has an update and links to track images: Main article= http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2011/1/11616.html 3D= http://www.lni.wa.gov/TradesLicensing/Electrical/files/WAC-RCW/feetrainnotes100110.pdf 2D= http://www.formula1.com/assets/pdf/Draft%20Track%20Layout%20F1%20USGP.pdf
Follow the link to the F1 page. The 3D is off for me too but the 2D seems to be fine edit: My bad, here's the 3D link: http://www.formula1.com/assets/pdf/F1%20USGP%20BasicTrack%20LayoutwElevation.pdf
Austin commercial is a BIG player in large size projects here in TX. Hope they cut them a deal in exchange for the publicity.
...too cold to dig right now as temps are approaching freezing... makes the ground hard and congeals diesel fuel, thank goodness we are not in a permafrost area
He's now pulling your leg........it hasn't even dropped into freezing AIR temps until recently...and it has no effect on 'dirt' at all.........rain of course would. My experience digging very deep in downtown Austin or San Marcos to the south is you only need a bulldozer for the first three or four feet, after that you need a Vermeer rock trencher to cut into the limestone substrate..... No specific knowledge of this site it IS much closer to the Colorado River and maybe be mostly alluvial soils.....
The work crews here that are from "down further South" of course bundle up and huddle motionless on shovel handles like they are some kind of desert lizard... But any native of South Dakota or Canada would be saying "WTF?" and happily craking on the Operator's levers....... It's about money, as I have posted before, not about weather........once you mobilze you'd better have some interum construction financing in place, cause you are gonna need money like you are burning it!! My terms for installed work is 30 days......and the Reservation of Lien Rights letters crank behind that 15 days later.....
Leaving now to meet my son at the skateboard Art Show.... This thread should remind me tomorrow to call Austin Industries, be glad to help if I can but doubt we'd sign any contract to enrich Bernie with the penalties. Wouldn't hurt to bid it, I guess.......
Yes, REALLY pulling your leg. Dirt moving in in recent years in the Upper Midwest seems to happen any time of year. So, we are 10 days into the new year, and nothing has happened except a photo op with a big rig.....is that correct?
Here is a virtual lap of the track; looks fast! If the elevation changes are correct, it looks like a great track............. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi2YFPM2qT4[/ame]
Yep...as of Saturday - Drove around the perimeter of the site- Nothing execpt a small SUV behind the makeshaft gate. Tried to take some pics, but none of them turned out....
So far, you have the 'stop' part nailed; when they 'go' again in January, then you can say 'I told you so'.....Let us know.
I asked my Estimating Department VP if we wanted to get involved in a high profile project like this, with international exposure along with huge penalties for late completion. He looked at me quizzically, and told me to go back to my office and work at Shell Laboratories.... I think we ARE prequalified with Austin Commercial, our Bonding capacity is so high, it's almost "unlimited"....... I might end run the VP and go to our President. We made money off the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston, years ago. Good parties too!!!
You may be right, that someting is "wrong"...I find it QUITE odd that preliminary dirtwork and site utilities are not already underway. Most of the Big Boys will roll out a job under Letter of Intent or other contractural devices that can open the ground before 100% design development/hard bid documents are ready. Reminds me of a Football Stadium I finished out once, the Press Boxes at the very top were last, and we were jamming electrical plugs into walls with wet paint, and so close behind the ceiling grid installer that our fixtures were going in along with his suspension systems. To Tavio, "Just because you have nine women together in a room, it doesn't mean you can make a baby in one month..." Signed, Bubba
