Austin: Turning high-tech into high-performance

Precision is in the spotlight at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin. When Chris Buescher and the No. 17 RFK Racing Ford Mustang hit the track, they carry the Trimble colors into one of motorsports' most technical challenges: road-course racing. Unlike traditional ovals, this circuit requires navigating both left and right turns across dramatic elevation changes, where Chris relies on split-second data to find total confidence. That same spirit is shared by the professionals evolving Austin's landscape, and beyond. Whether mastering a technical track or managing the expansion of a booming region, Texas turns to Trimble.

Digital construction of the tallest tower in Texas

Austin's skyline is a visible record of the city’s ambition. Currently, DPR Construction is nearing completion on Waterline, which will be the tallest tower in Texas. To deliver a structure of this scale in a congested downtown corridor, the team created a digital twin to identify over 100 potential design conflicts long before they ever broke ground. By turning a massive architectural vision into a constructible digital model, the workforce coordinated the most challenging concrete pour in the firm's history, pumping it to a height of 1,022 feet. That's taller than three Statues of Liberty, all managed with a level of precision that ensures work keeps flowing without disrupting the vibrant life of the city below.

Engineering the future at the University of Texas at Austin

While projects like Waterline reshape the city today, the Trimble Technology Lab at the University of Texas at Austin is shaping the experts of tomorrow. By providing students with tools used by global industry leaders — from robotic total stations to mixed-reality hard hats — the lab helps the next generation turn classroom learning into high-level expertise. What these students learn goes beyond design skills, they are gaining the experience needed to solve the real-world complexities of urban growth, ensuring they are ready to lead Austin's evolution with the same confidence the pros use on the jobsite today.

Modernizing Texas infrastructure through data-driven maintenance

For the millions who call Texas home, the daily commute depends on more than 80,000 miles of roads and 54,000 bridges managed by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). To keep a community this size moving safely, TxDOT relies on Trimble technology to turn vast amounts of infrastructure data into proactive maintenance strategies. This extends to the smallest detail, such as tracking individual roadside reflectors to ensure nighttime visibility. By modeling pavement needs years in advance, engineers can shift from reactive repairs to proactive preservation. This ensures infrastructure remains as high-performing as the people who depend on it.

Benefits bigger than Texas

The challenges Austin faces — aging infrastructure, shrinking budgets, and rapid expansion — are felt in cities everywhere. By connecting the dots between data and the field, Trimble helps teams solve these global problems with local precision. From the high-speed turns of a racing circuit to the farm-to-market roads of the Texas Hill Country, our work in this region is part of a bigger picture. We are helping the people of Central Texas and beyond navigate their world with predictability, building a more resilient future by providing Confidence at every turn™.

Add Trimble to your toolkit

For those looking to advance their own operations, explore the specific solutions and workflows that enable these Austin-based initiatives.

• The construction management suite
  Simplify your access to the industry's most powerful tools with Trimble Construction One. Elevate the way you work with one vendor, one contract, and one construction management software suite that simply works—just as it did for the Waterline project.
  

• Asset lifecycle management
  Discover how to move from reactive maintenance to proactive preservation using the same Trimble Unity Maintain (formerly AgileAssets) workflows that power TxDOT's network of bridges and roadways.
  

• Collaboration without silos
  Learn how to establish a single source of truth for your projects with Trimble Connect, the cloud-based hub that allows every trade to share, review and comment on data-rich models in real time.