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Northwest Exterior of Hays Campus in April 2013. Construction is moving along well. The project is about 40 percent complete. There are more than 130 workers on-site every day, representing 12 subcontractors. The building is being “dried in.” Three subcontractors are continuing to erect exterior...

Construction is moving along with greater momentum now. The project is about 30 percent complete. There are now more than 100 workers on-site every day, representing 13 subcontractors. The structural steel building frame is fully erected and complete. The second- and third-floor concrete decks have been...

Austin Community College is celebrating a milestone in the construction of its Hays Campus. ACC and Flintco, the construction manager, marked the project’s “topping out” March 5 – signifying completion of the campus’s structural frame. “It is exciting to see this campus taking shape, thanks to...

Community Impact – ACC Hays Campus on Pace for 2014...

Great progress has been made in the last several weeks.  The City of Kyle issued the site development permit and building permits (one for each floor) in mid-October.  The buyout of sub-contracts is now 95 percent complete. We are happy to report that our HUB percentage for the project will exceed 30...

The bidding phase of Hays Campus is complete. Flintco is midstream through the process of evaluating all the subcontractor bids and making recommendations to ACC for award of each scope of work. ACC has approved about 50 percent of the subcontractors. It appears that our project will come in slightly under...

The design of Hays Campus is complete. The 100 percent construction document set has been released for final review by the college’s commissioning agent, ACR Engineering, ACC departments, and the Plum Creek Architectural Review Committee. Comments are due August 17. All comments will be addressed, and...

With temperatures soaring to triple digits outside, more than 800 community leaders, students, and friends gathered in the air-conditioned comfort of the Hays CISD Performing Arts Center June 27 to help Austin Community College celebrate the groundbreaking for its Hays Campus and learn about cool careers in...

We have officially closed the bonds and can confirm the Hays Campus is scheduled to open in early 2014 for the spring semester. The groundbreaking celebration will be June 27, 2012, at the Hays Consolidated Independent School District Performing Arts Center at 10 a.m. All are welcome to attend. Site...

The design development phase was completed in late March. The architectural firm Gensler issued a package of full-size design development review packages at the 50 percent and 100 percent complete level for ACC departmental review and comment. Gensler addressed all comments and made revisions. The college...