Our Self-Perform department helped push the schedule and cost savings for Lincoln Ventures in Austin, Texas. The 80 Rainey project is a 49-story cast-in-place tower that features an 11-story parking garage, 36 floors of residential apartments, and two amenity decks with pools on both. Although this was the first Austin-based, turnkey Self-Perform project, the team made significant contributions by accelerating the structure schedule while still providing significant savings to the base jobs contingency budget.
The small jobsite for 80 Rainey created unique challenges. With limited laydown area on the jobsite, Self-Perform had to truck in column forms and coordinate steel deliveries during off-hours due to only having one crane and one delivery lane. Still, by coordinating primarily with fellow JE Dunn employees, the Self-Perform team helped cut down on several elements of the project timeline.
“Using Self-Perform, we were able to move the top-out date up quite a bit by controlling the schedule,” said Jack Westra, Project Manager. “Plus, finishing the project sooner led to some financial savings for the owner.”
The project’s success was a team effort, requiring the concrete, steel, and base job crews to work together effectively.
“The client was very much aware of what Self-Perform brings to the table,” said Senior Project Manager Dustin Smith. “They appreciated the speed at which our team was able to complete this project without adding cost.”
Several scopes on this project were firsts for the Austin Self-Perform team. In addition to the initial concrete work, they also took on place and finish ٕ— after seeing and hearing concerns about quality throughout the Austin market — as well as installation of all miscellaneous structural steel. Having these crews in-house allowed us to control the concrete’s quality and manage the accelerated structure. That way, we could ensure the steel crew was appropriately sized to keep up with the concrete without adding cost.
The 80 Rainey project team remains hard at work on the project, which they expect to complete in September 2025.
“The project as a whole has been an all-around team win,” said Dustin Smith, Senior Project Manager. “The efforts of everyone including VDC (virtual design and construction), layout, and base job have minimized rework or delays to our crews.”
