These later shots provide an interesting new perspective, not to mention some fantastic lighting. I know it's a byproduct of your busy schedule, but the change-up offers a fresh perspective and I like it.

0:54 That's a drainage channel at the low end of the loading bay slab

Regarding the East side loading docks: The East side raod grade is the same level as the ground floor grade. The West side road grade is below the level of the ground floor grade. On the West side, rain water flows AWAY from the building because of the road/ground floor grade difference. On the East side, the ramps to the loading docks need to ramp down to the building to be the correct height for the loading docks. Therefore you need rain water drainage along the building at these spots. That's what you're seeing.

@TerafactoryTexas

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks @guy cadieux! I thought maybe this was drainage related but couldn't tell. You're awesome!

@flubalubaful

2 жыл бұрын

@@TerafactoryTexas Water features remember you heard it here first

@bobcallahan2322

2 жыл бұрын

It is called a trench drain.

0:54 Just a guess Randy. Maybe it is a linear drain. A few feet from the wall is probably the low point.

Nice Randy, thanks.

Back at it again! Let's goooo randy

Adding drainage is what they're doing.

Yep, installing trench drainage at the low "v" point.. about 10' off the loading bays

Thanks Randy for another great drone video

$100 coming your way, thanks for all your work and dedication. Cheers and have a great weekend!

@TerafactoryTexas

2 жыл бұрын

@Jasem Ashkanani Thank you and it's very much appreciated! Hope you enjoyed your weekend as well!

Thank you!

Thanks, Randy!

White pipes on Eastside are for drinking fountains for staff. Also i have imagined some really nice water features around that side of the factory and some on the west side, these pipes will be large enough to get water up to a height of a few meters before dropping into a large pond where there are koi by the hundreds, pond will be next to the road with bushes and seats around them. Damn i can actually see this happening for real if elon reads these comments.

Looks a little foggy there. That's what you get around rivers. We have a river on each side of town here

Looks like the east side is getting better treatment... All concrete paving. Yet the westside has the beautiful tall windows. Wish they would have done all concrete paving along the westside too.

@flubalubaful

2 жыл бұрын

I suspect they have done the west side so as to enable removal of chargers in the future and then lay concrete for the heavy vehicles that will use the opened loading docks. It might have been easier to lay concrete everywhere but digging it up to remove chargers would have been a mess and hard work.

@eltonray2934

2 жыл бұрын

I do not think that it has been mentioned, but when your pour concrete you potentially eliminate work by tracked vehicles in these areas. This would indicate that all dirt work has been completed in the concrete areas.

@ 4:11 While spaceframes are great at long spans, the downside is how much space they take up. In this case it occupies what would be the forth floor!

@eltonray2934

2 жыл бұрын

Would not be able to put floor above bridge crane anyway, no way to support.

@eldiablo8019

2 жыл бұрын

Spaceframes hmmm maybe they should have used prefabricated roof trusses ?

Excellent! Thank you for your time and effort.

Thanks Randy.

Looking Good....

@ 14:52 I'm hoping the new 973 access road doesn't just serve the westside loading docks, but extends east to serve the parking lots as well.

@flubalubaful

2 жыл бұрын

I agree , seems only the west side right now but i am more than a little bit sure it will serve both sides when all exterior construction has completed.

@eltonray2934

2 жыл бұрын

Someone has stated that there will be a "ring road" around the plant so the west side will have to be part of this road. Notice the concrete at 10:54 left middle, that appears to be a turn in from a road, possibly the ring road.

it's probably been mentioned, but tesla is planning on holding it's 2021 annual meeting at this new texas facility on oct. 7, 2021. construction priorities will be adjusted accordingly i would think.

@ 14:18 My guess is that at some point in the future they will fill in the north end of the pond, and connect the west, central, and eastside stormwater drains directly to the river outlets. Probably after they have done sufficient paving to keep the mud out of the river.

Noticed the column tops have been added to the gigapress area and it looks like there will be windows on this section. There are no wall panel connectors on a section of the columns.

@eltonray2934

2 жыл бұрын

Notice the angled girt at 5:00 on the right, could be something to do with this.

Merci👍👍👍

Thanks!

Great Job Randy!! Appreciate the great coverage of the East side. I'm assuming the lot that was just being cleared along with the graded area to the South of that will be used to stage Finished Goods awaiting transport? Anybody know?

I was wondering why "Lake Tesla" detention pond doesn't go down, but every time I've seen the storm water pipe feeding it, there's water coming out. There hasn't been any storms, I wonder where all that water is coming from..? Just curious...

@bobcallahan2322

2 жыл бұрын

They were pumping water from the bottom of the excavation for the big round vault on the east side to dewater the excavation. They are now backfilling the vault and are above the water table and are no longer pumping water. That is why the big pipes could now be connected at the south ponds because the water flow had stopped.

@dahur

2 жыл бұрын

@@bobcallahan2322 Oh okay..thanks.

@dalerichardson7202

2 жыл бұрын

If you look closely, Lake Tesla is deeper than the northern pond. This entire area has a high water table and the "lake" is simply where the water table lies for the entire construction site. It's why it won't drain away, even with the lack of rain, and it's why the northern pond is dry, because the floor of the pond is shallower than the water table. So after a rainstorm, it will eventually percolate down.

@eltonray2934

2 жыл бұрын

The elevation of the building is 416 feet. The Colorado river is at 381 feet. It could be about 35 feet down to the water in the pond. This retention pond might be at river level.

@ 6:29 you can see where the lugs that are welded on the imbeds for the precast to hang from are missing at about the same level as the window locations that carry on further down the east side. I'm wondering if they're gonna' change this detail to include windows where there currently are none like they're doing at the south west corner.

@DessieDoolan

2 жыл бұрын

That seems likely. No other reason to skip them. In Joe's video the pattern is on most of the columns.

what do we think? first production from berlin or texas?

@flubalubaful

2 жыл бұрын

I would not be surprised if tesla announced both starting on the same day. Supposedly Berlin started production line testing which would include building full cars for tesing , the same thing that texas is supposed to be doing...

@AndyAndy-we9pe

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Berlin is actively hiding any progress from the interior due to fossil fuel industry paying people to protest and using video to look for evidence of anything they can complain about. Easy to back up into factory to remove items and cover them so not identified like in Texas where it is not a problem whatever they do.

Too much filming time and don't work without actual construction taking place. Please consider feeling all the cars departing the factory at the end of a shift at the traffic light section we'd like to see how it works and follow it all the way west to the far end where it dead ends and show us all the cars going left home or right home. Also the possible new route on the north east end of the property that may be constructed. Also any new activity on the new road on the southwest section coming to under the bridge to the factory and it's activity. Thank you kindly we like your work

So what's the idea with the remaining of the south pit? No footer work or widening and they reinforced one section oddly. Also some of the new footers on the building side are oddly placed, single ones followed by double, some close to each other some farther, somebody drank a bottle of Tesla Tequila haha.

Can you please choose less monotonous music. Otherwise excellent video.

Looks like similar construction to the Florida Condo that collapsed. Not an arch in sight.

@eltonray2934

2 жыл бұрын

In steel column and beam construction the side loads are carried by "X" bracing which is located in many places in this building. The concrete construction is with prestressed columns and beams that are welded together and poured with concrete at junctions forming one continuous frame supporting a prestressed and welded roof with a steel reinforced concrete overlay.

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