ACC Marshalling Yard

Austin, TX

Services Provided

Landscape restoration, wetland restoration, woodland and meadow restoration, native planting, soil restoration, stormwater management, water harvesting, landscape irrigation, and sustainable site design.

Awards

LEED Silver Rating
2022 Outstanding Construction Award, Associated General Contractors (AGC), Austin Chapter

Collaborators

City of Austin, Austin Convention Center, PGAL, SpawGlass Contractors Inc., CleanScapes, Baer Engineering & Environmental Consulting, Tsen Engineering, inControl Water Systems, Aptus Engineering, Studio D Consulting & Design LLC, DAVCAR

5.8 acres of restored wetlands, woodlands and wildflower meadow

The objective for the City of Austin Convention Center expansion project included creating a warehouse and yard space to stage and coordinate logistics for large trucks and deliveries ahead of Convention Center events. The space is also intended to double as an emergency shelter, and since its completion, has been used for that.

In 2023, Austin declared an emergency given the ongoing housing affordability crisis and increasingly dire circumstances for Austin’s unhoused. The 70,000 square foot warehouse now has 300 shelter beds, doubling the previous amount, and will operate as such until permanent shelter projects are completed. The project achieved a LEED Silver Rating, including the water harvesting system that utilizes HVAC condensate and rainwater collected from the building roof for landscape irrigation, as well as the management of stormwater onsite in three large, vegetated, bio-filtration and detention ponds.

A major landscape component of the project was restoration of over 20 acres of land including 28,000 square feet of restored wetland habitat, 438 caliper inches of new forest canopy trees, over 28,000 tree seedlings of 17 different species as well as over 25,000 rooted shrubs, grasses, and understory plantings, 6 acres of soil restoration and overseeding of 54 pounds of native meadow seed mix.