Tesla Gigafactory Texas 14 August 2020 Construction Update Video

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Giga Texas construction update 14 August 2020. Work continues at a fast pace and the site had changed dramatically in just over 3 weeks since construction start. In this video we show the corrected phase I site boundaries of 280 acres (about 113 hectacre), discuss flooding concerns that many viewers have had and see that they are now starting to do some drilling on the north part of the site. The south area is also transforming quickly with the last remaining ponds beginning to drain and a lot of earth filling and leveling has taken place.
I hope this video will help viewer see just how fast they are working and how quickly changes happen on a daily basis and how huge the undertaking is to build Giga Texas.
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@philipstull7629 4 года назад

Looks like they are rerouting that small power line that crisscrosses this area. As always setting a high standard that no one here or in Berlin comes close to. Jason in Shanghai started this but you have taking this storytelling to a whole new level. Congratulations. Thank you.

@joycetowsley7059 4 года назад

Amen.

@mikest2000 4 года назад

I think you are right but I do like to watch Jason in Shanghai videos too

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Philip Stull I just think it’s neat that on three continents something similar is happening at almost the same time and the enthusiasm is great!

@allisbiz 4 года назад

@@mikest2000 Also Wuwa in Shanghai too!

@jbbuzzable 4 года назад

The Berlin project looks like it's designed to last a hundred years.

@CiaranKing 4 года назад

The drilling rig has "Geopier" on the back of it. Judging by the big pile of aggregate, and the little bulldozers with the small buckets on the front, they might be using Geopier's Rammed Aggregate Pier system - basically drill a relatively shallow hole and fill it with gravel, packing down each gravel layer with an appropriately sized ramming rig (which hasn't shown up on site yet). They can put in a lot of these (thousands) very fast (in a few weeks) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7MeQDepkyXo.html

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Great insight ... I’ll do a bit of research on this and if this is what they are doing, may do a quick bit on it for a future video. Thx for the tip!

@Mark-pl2qo 4 года назад

Maybe they will strike oil, that would be ironic!

@wildernesscapes 4 года назад

This particular video from the company looks and sounds perfect for Tesla's site. High ground water table, loose sands, different fill layers, etc, where some of the obstacles in this video, and sounds like Texas too. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8RB8Tqi3-gY.html

@astrodiver1 4 года назад

@@Mark-pl2qo LoL I was thinking the same!

@mthom7174 4 года назад

Good info! Just went down the "Geopier" RU-vid rabbit hole. This one is helpful too; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qiD2xAV8OxY.html

@thekman1812 4 года назад

The speed at which the landscape is being transformed is staggering!!!

@10kreviews2020 3 года назад

It certainly feels like it, but I have no frame of reference. Is this the sort of thing that normally takes longer?

@alexanderkenway 4 года назад

One of the best Tesla factory build videos I've seen. Highly informative and easily to follow. Great job, Joe!

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Alexander Kenway thank you very much!

@mikest2000 4 года назад

Great video joe love the flood elevation info I live close to New Orleans its below sea level and been here for hundreds of years has its problems with flooding but it is getting better. NASAs Michoud Assembly facility is their were they built the Saturn V and building the SLS Its a giant factory. It makes Giga Texas look like a desert.

@nycandre 3 года назад

Great to see the 21st century version of the great pyramids being built - and with a (good) purpose - heartwarming - great sound track too!

@joycetowsley7059 4 года назад

Awesome being able to watch history come to life. Thank you Joe for the opportunity Great job!

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Joyce Towsley thx!

@haysdb 3 года назад

This is just a flat out amazing video. The best one so far the series. It does a stellar job of showing elevation differences and every different phase of site leveling is shown all in one frame.

@JoeTegtmeyer 3 года назад

Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it!

@moeali12345 4 года назад

Thank you for posting. This is great service. I will watch everyday until they build the first CyberTruck. I am number 283000 on the list. I hope to live long enough to get mine and drive with a few miles.

@TerafactoryTexas 4 года назад

Gather round kids! Class is in session! Great video Joe! Hopefully one of us can capture the drilling/geopier install process in action!

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Hope so ... I've got some info ready for the next video showing what they are doing with the drills and what this likely means for the construction ... get ready for warp speed I think!

@mthom7174 4 года назад

LOL at the floating Cybertrucks! Thanks Joe for another informative video!

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

M Thom 😎

@brucedubbs6939 4 года назад

Another great video with wonderful information. I suspect the elevation changes are still being made on the north end. They do have fairly large mounds/hills to bring down and can use the material from them to bring up the low spots. One thing to note is I think the very beginning of the earthwork was started around the time of the Tesla Q2 earnings call, July 22, so all the progress has been done in a little over three weeks. Amazing.

@CiaranKing 4 года назад

According to satellite imagery, groundwork seems to have started on the 15th July. apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground/?source=S2&lat=30.221055499103073&lng=-97.61513471603394&zoom=16&preset=1-NATURAL-COLOR&layers=B01,B02,B03&maxcc=100&gain=1.0&gamma=1.0&time=2020-01-01%7C2020-07-15&atmFilter=&showDates=false

@MadStyle1911 4 года назад

Man, things are moving fast!

@dirkkruisheer 4 года назад

What an excellent job. Living below sea level in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, I'm a sucker for this kind of information. I dont't think they're drilling there. It's rather sounding the resistance or density of the bottom by driving giant needles into it. With the resulting metrics the properties of the foundation can be calculated.

@dirkkruisheer 4 года назад

@@DigimaxPhoto Let me know when!

@peterure9 4 года назад

Excellent video...very informative....alot of thought and work went into it... Congratulations!!!

@edgray9394 3 года назад

Thanks for the flood info.

@carrellgrigsby976 4 года назад

Great Job and wonderful music! Thank you.

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Thx!

@avahifi1467 4 года назад

OMG the swamp critter got loose!

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

AVAHIFI a crossover event! Jeff approved!

@etbadaboum 4 года назад

Thanks for this literal flooding of info!

@peterdog15 4 года назад

My favorite part 7:21 !! Great video, loved it!

@jbbuzzable 4 года назад

Thank you so much for this video. Hopefully, it will dispel at least some of misinformed opinions the about flooding. You can now reference this video.

@dealeru.3532 4 года назад

The view from 6:20 to 6:35 shows a great shot of the flood potential in the area with the extra bridge length compared to the normal river size. I imagine the finished site work will at a minimum include a berm level with the Hwy that surrounds the actual factory while leaving a similar volume of space of potential river flood volume. Great work with your channel.

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Dealer U. Thx! We shall see what solutions they come up with and I hope to be able to show you. 🤞

@Eudamonia-123 4 года назад

Great work!

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Kirk Morris thx!

@charliedbq 4 года назад

Love the sign off. Thanks Guys.

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Charles Jungk thx!

@stevegolubic6399 4 года назад

Look at those subs climb! Looking good Joe!

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Steve Golubic 🤗

@rascalminihan7381 4 года назад

It looks like they are taking great care in backfilling the swampy areas so that they don't have troubles with foundations in the future. Looks like a well engineered process.

@crawkn 4 года назад

Thanks for the deep dive on the flood plane info, it was the first thing I thought of, being familiar with the site. Your anaysis is impressive, I see that you are a curious and serious person.

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Ken Crawford 😎

@fargom54 9 месяцев назад

The "good" ole days. Thanks Joe 😧😉

@JoeTegtmeyer 9 месяцев назад

🤗

@blakewharper 3 года назад

thank you for all the data you add and for getting a better look at the specifics like the drill. can you maybe speak to foundations in Austin coming up? up in canada we dont do slab on grade unless it is a behemoth structural slab. generally we would do piles on an industrial building. keep up the awesome work, hopefully can get to your patreon page this weekend.

@JoeTegtmeyer 3 года назад

Blake Harper thank you!

@lambecolin 3 года назад

Load testing in gravel area to assess land sink rate--very common and can last months until sinkage stops.

@ABC-bangkok 4 года назад

thumbs up 👍👍👍

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

vang tain thx 😎

@ChrisHplusland 4 года назад

Great video with research, documents, nice flying, excellent editing - sub'd. All that gravel does look like the start of a giant pad maybe. Wouldn't be surprised if the transmission towers are re-routed along the freeway and that mound of earth they're on, removed as well. Wonder if Harold Green Road will be lowered to grade.

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Chris H. I hope to be able to video it and see along with you what they do

@gregarmstrong4653 4 года назад

My wild guess is that we are seeing evidence of a significant reduction in time to project completion. The paint shop, pressing and casting buildings take far longer to build, so the white diamond area is probably the start of these buildings. The general assembly parts of the buiding can catch up later, there is no need to drain every last pond, ( or wait for every last bat to leave their tree nest as they did in Germany) before getting going on building.

@delkroupa 4 года назад

I hope that they will do the footings and bases for the columns on top of the final base grade, then fill in between them, like they did in Berlin. That would put the final factory floor about 4-5 ft. above the grade of the white area shown, if that is one of the factory's building locations. Every foot above the "100 year flood zone" is a plus. There have been too many 100 year floods lately that have done billions in damage, and climate change makes it worse, and more frequent. I lived about 30 miles north of the Austin site for years, and personally saw some huge downpours. Keep in mind that the buildings and paved areas are impermeable to rain, and rapidly contribute to any flooding.

@jamesbruce1183 4 года назад

Joe - That is outstanding. Great coverage. Yes they will relocate the small power line near the south end. As far as the drilling goes, I would think it is for soil sampling. It's really important to get the soil strength right. But those drills do not look like they would leave the soil intact for testing. I would look for a tool that produces a core of undisturbed soil. If they were drilling for piers, I would expect tubes to be present to lower into the hole to prevent cave in and I would also expect steel for reinforcement in the piers. So I have no idea why the drills. The highway level is surveyed to just about never flood. I'd want to stick with that level for the factory to ensure no flooding but it would require an enormous amount of dirt. Maybe they will build on stilts and have covered parking.

@jbbuzzable 4 года назад

See what Eric Guidry has to say about this. "Coring drills are much smaller, typically, that looks to be prepping for some sort of footing or piling it looks like to my untrained eye a continuous flight auger as described here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aAZoTG0EY3U.html but that's a guess."

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

I think I have some good info on what they are doing ... will cover in my next video

@dmpease01 4 года назад

I think the white aggregate and the extended contiguous soil area to the south-southeast is the first fully prepped area at the target elevation. It makes sense to me to take a quickly prepped area and start the next stage of progress rather than waiting for the whole site to be prepped. This way they can keep progressing all areas in parallel and this area will get finished first, then get expanded as other areas are prepped to this level. I've seen this in Berlin and Shanghai videos. The small power lines seem to go to a device near the highway. I haven't been able to tell if it crossed the highway. At it's height, I doubt it. I think the line crews are simply removing it because it it might have been abandoned by the previous user. This would really simplify things. It's probably taken this long for the line crews to get scheduled and get out there to simply remove the line.

@petergraphix6740 4 года назад

From both the machines sitting on that pad, and from what I'm reading about floating piers, the aggregate will have the foundation of a large building built on top of it. The piers won't be directly attached to the foundation itself.

@TheHeavenman88 4 года назад

The white stuff is a process to lime treating the soil to dry it or making it achieve certain properties. It's cheaper to do this sometimes instead of hauling the entire layer of bad dirt out or bringing in new dirt from outside .

@FamilyFirstJ 4 года назад

Wow

@Tangopassion1 4 года назад

I think they have to reroute The powerline, close to the Interstate, otherwise, it makes not a lot of sense, because it looks like that a big area to the opposite side is way higher this should come down to get more Material to fill in the Front. The gravel in the center I think is a barrier for more mash later it can be an illusion in the Video but it looks still too low. Just guessing of course, but it is kind of fun to think with it as it goes. GREAT VIDEOS thanks

@RicardoCostaCiabotti. 4 года назад

Se não houvesse tantas barreiras para ir para ir eu iria até a pé para acelerar essa construção, sério não sei porque tanta divisão!!!

@royallclark6331 4 года назад

I live on a big volcano in the middle of the ocean and everything is ROCK. So strange to see so much dirt!! Let alone dirt with out any rocks!!

@privateerburrows 4 года назад

Yes, they do prefer their factories to be oriented to true North, as it makes it easier to map locations inside the factory and have automated vehicles navigating the factory using gps. Not that adding a layer of remapping is necessarily rocket science, really... Good also for setting up roof-top solar cells. The drills are for a relatively new foundation making technique whereby you drill down to where the soil gets firm and hard, whether bedrock, dinosaur bones or buried pyramids it doesn't matter as long as you reach hard bottom. Then you fill the hole with fresh concrete mix. You can place the holes as far or as closely spaced as you want, depending on the strenght you need. At its best, you can drill overlapping holes (as long as the concrete in the previus hole is not fully hardened yet), and effectively make underground walls. Given that this area is flood prone, I'm sure they want to make sure they are finding deep support. They may also be planning to raise factory floor off the ground, Venice-like. Just a thought...

@haroldz9915 4 года назад

I think the factory will be built on land that is below the level of the existing roads. And there may be several levels of land, for example, the two sides of the high power lines. This level may be above the Colorado river flood level. But this brings up the question of how storm water will drain from the site. I think it will have to be pumped up hill as well as the sewage.

@Andymon 4 года назад

Would be nice to see The Boring Company drop a TBM and bury those high power lines. Excellent work, and thanks for helping to clear up perceived flooding issues!

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Thanks ... so many asked about it I thought it might be good to check it out. I am very sure the engineers building Giga Texas have a solid plan and it will be just fine! I appreciate you watching!

@e.guidry 4 года назад

Bigger issue there is the high pressure natural gas pipeline running with the high voltage transmission lines. You can see a tap from this line across the river at the natural gas power plant. pvnpms.phmsa.dot.gov/PublicViewer/

@Andymon 4 года назад

@@e.guidry Can they go below?

@e.guidry 4 года назад

@@Andymon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ with enough engineering and money anything is possible. But you can't typically construct on top of gas transmission pipelines because if they rupture… well… it's bad. It almost assuredly need to be re-routed. My guess though as I don't work in construction. Just happened to live near another project with a natural gas easement.

@mthom7174 4 года назад

15:38 North South could well be the orientation of the factory. Saw in the comments somewhere that all Giga are North South for GPS standardization purposes...

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

M Thom it’s a good bet but I hope to know for sure soon 🤞

@istiles1 4 года назад

Amazing progress, appreciate your retrospectives. I get a lot out of your explanations and color coding. How in the world do you have the time?

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Ivy Stiles I like learning so I try to figure things out and and I like sharing what I’ve learned so it’s not much more than what I’m already am doing. Plus, having fun too!

@istiles1 4 года назад

@@JoeTegtmeyer Well I for one am grateful for your work. I think many of us are anxious to see what Tesla will become at Giga [dare I say Tera?] Texas.

@mjcamp01 3 года назад

Thoughts anyone? 18:00 you see fill trucks passing the current drop point to go via the east entrance, that's a LONG way around, is there a weigh bridge or something, they could save time and diesel and money by opening a North site entrance??

@crawkn 4 года назад

I assume there will be substantial fill in the lower elevations. I am also assuming that they wouldn't be putting expensive gravel down for any other reason than to build on it soon.

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

Ken Crawford I think you may be right ... I’ve got some research to share on the next video about what they are starting to do with the drilling machines

@MrGonzonator 4 года назад

Great background info on the flood planes thanks, very interesting! I think that gravel area is a car park for all the vehicles and the piling are for a really big fence to protect them all. Or maybe a staging area for all the building materials to be safely stored?

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

MrGonzonator hope we will see more to give us an answer in the coming days 🤞

@rascalminihan7381 4 года назад

I doubt that they would soil test a parking lot. Soil tests usually are reserve for buildings.

@petergraphix6740 4 года назад

99% Sure the gravel pad is a floating foundation that will have piers drilled into it. A long and boring video on how it works ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PCYE4KgUj-k.html

@mthom7174 4 года назад

7:19 Oh No! The swamp creature can move around on dry land!!!!

@williams908v2 4 года назад

Do we know how far the 18 wheelers are travelling that are bringing extra fill and the crushed rock?

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

j williams yes ... I covered this in detail on the 2 August video ... take a look!

@kanahn7402 3 года назад

How much height will the foundations and floors add? You'd think they'd want to be at or alone road level, even with a .2% flood risk...

@JoeTegtmeyer 3 года назад

I really don;t know but some speculate another 3-5 feet or 1-1.5 meters. I guess we will have to see as they progress.

@NickoMcbrainRules 3 года назад

Looks like Giga Texas wants to one-up Giga Shanghai by starting in an even swampier swamp!

@Carl9524 4 года назад

Why make the dirt trucks travel all the way round. Why not just take the short cut

@jacobthrockmorton5073 3 года назад

It’s like Tesla Olympics. What country has the fastest construction methods? United States, China, or Germany?

@stockaby5040 3 года назад

Great video and presentation, the slides at the beginning confirms my thinking... This is a bad location to build any type of factory let alone one with high electronic usage.. In one of your slide I saw what should have been the biggest red flag.. FEMA flood zone designation and those ponds/canals were cut to slow down the flow of water on both sides of that highway... Folks we all want Tesla to succeed but this is crazy every hurricane entering the golf has the potential to wreck havoc to the area as a tropical storm... If you want proof just google floods in Austin and you'll agree. There are so many areas in TX whose risk is none existent... If it was up to me Elon should issue a STOP ORDER and find a new suitable site..... One breach and it will make Fremont's shutdown look like a sleep over... Look at the grade level its at the same level as the river or close to it..... How can you have a run-off of water at the same grade levels as the river.... I don't see it 2 things I tell folks when buying land look at the heights of Railroad tracks and main highways they are always 10'-25' above 100 year flood levels. Now compare that highway with the land nearby....

@craigrutledge7035 3 года назад

They weren't cut to slow down the flow of water. They were formed from mining

@stockaby5040 3 года назад

@@craigrutledge7035 that makes sense thanks for the heads up..

@RicardoCostaCiabotti. 4 года назад

Está faltando máquinas mais especializadas por exemplo aquelas que corta arvores e os traçados tratores para arrancar as raźes e acelerar a limpeza e terraplenagem e terraplanagem e os mineradores de ouro tem tratores que podem ajudar é só contratar...

@e.guidry 4 года назад

@9:37 Coring drills are much smaller, typically, that looks to be prepping for some sort of footing or piling it _looks like_ to my untrained eye a continuous flight auger as described here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aAZoTG0EY3U.html but that's a guess.

@jbbuzzable 4 года назад

I think you are spot on with your comment. The equipment and ground prep is exactly like what is shown in the video.

@petergraphix6740 4 года назад

Geopier, the company who has provided those auger containing excavators seems to have a few different technologies they implement. A number of them like rigid inclusions require the thick gravel pad we see build to transfer load on to the piers as they are not directly attached to the foundation.

@jbbuzzable 4 года назад

@@petergraphix6740 That limestone rock surface appears to be quite thick and well packed.

@e.guidry 4 года назад

@@petergraphix6740 awesome, I wasn't able to make out that brand on the equipment prior. Excited to see actual construction prep not just land work.

@dclpgh 4 года назад

Terafactory Texas seems to having problems with security are you?

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

dclpgh not yet ... hope nothing changes

@jbbuzzable 4 года назад

Can you provide a link to your information?

@dclpgh 4 года назад

@@JoeTegtmeyer Roger that. Good job.

@_Teo_Dor 3 года назад

Anybody knows the history of this site? What created these elongated swamps and hills? Was this a dump site?

@craigrutledge7035 3 года назад

It was an active mining site until a bit over a month ago.

@nkelischek 3 года назад

@@craigrutledge7035 Rock for gravel I think.

@kanahn7402 3 года назад

Thumbs up for the well timed Dancing Elon

@JoeTegtmeyer 3 года назад

Thank you!

@jaykay0075 4 года назад

Will they re-route the huge power transmission lines outside the property?

@saff226 4 года назад

Probably not. They will just build a building on either side of it. They have gone away from build large buildings and gone to long narrow buildings with a road between them so that it makes getting materials into the building easy. My guess is that mound will stay there as a flood wall and they will build up a mound along the south boundry joing the higway to the power line.

@g.elliott4789 4 года назад

Why do you suppose the Berlin Dronsters fly so much lower than the TX fliers?

@joycetowsley7059 4 года назад

Did you see all of the various power lines on one of the earlier videos? I'd think they could really mess up your day.

@wildernesscapes 4 года назад

could be several reasons. 1) many times they were flying not during work hours, with emptier site, compared to non stop work at Texas, 2) security has stopped by to check up on the guys at Texas whereas I don't know if that's been an issue in Berlin, 3) at least Joe and Robert in Texas I gather are less experienced drone flyers, and 4) have you noticed it always looks windy in Texas, compared to Berlin which looks calmer.

@BenDOver-le9tb 4 года назад

There is more gravity in Germany

@g.elliott4789 4 года назад

@@wildernesscapes Elon informed German authorities he did not object to drone fly-overs.

@wildernesscapes 4 года назад

@@joycetowsley7059 Power lines in Texas, but lots of cranes around Berlin now, so either location you have to be aware of altitude and surroundings.

@thewolfdoctor761 3 года назад

Shoulda built in Tulsa

@pbsanstead 3 года назад

We gave it our all.

@GigaTeslaFan 4 года назад

15:33 yes power line base level Can't really mess with it.

@mthom7174 4 года назад

0:23 Kinda think they could reroute the entrance road further north instead of the 190 acre section having that thin sliver

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

M Thom they very well could ... I will try to keep watching and making videos to see what they do 😎

@craigslist04 4 года назад

Hi Joe, any chance of you doing some narration with your video's. Great visuals. Thanks

@JoeTegtmeyer 4 года назад

craigslist04 nobody wants to hear my voice! 😜

@Hobott 4 года назад

The picture is very fragmented. One cannot look at any part of the object calmly. And these constant rushes ... They irritate. Half the time is eaten up by recalling previous states, that's too much. Permanent inscriptions distract and spoil the landscape. Everything is good when it is in moderation. Anyway, thanks for the effort.