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VENUE PROFILE
STADIUM Interior bowl night view. South End Zone view. LEVI’S®
Northeast Plaza entry.
training facility and Candlestick Park renovations.
Harvey notes: “We came together in March, 2006 when the project came back to life. Devcon was preselected by the 49ers in the proposal for a design/build firm due to our long- standing relationship and the extensive knowledge of the project. Turner was selected for their national sports project résumé and proposed project team. Our attitude was to put the best personnel in each position – Turner or Devcon – and we worked very well together.
“The main site problem was the small, confined area – surrounded by a creek, a major thoroughfare, a soccer park and train tracks, the training facility, and two
local utilities to south. This left about a 16-acre site with a 10-acre stadium footprint. The stadium is a structural steel structure with deep foundations with pile caps, poured-in-place grade beams and a traditional slab on grade. The structural system also utilises buckling restrained braces (BRBs) throughout the building and precast concrete tread and risers for the seating bowls. The Suite Tower has three levels of suites, two levels of clubs, press box and the unique roof terrace.”
Rayborn observes: “The Chicago Bears stacked their suites on the east side of renovated Soldier Field, and Philips Arena in Atlanta did the same for its NBA Hawks. By placing the suites in the Tower and minimising the number of levels of suites elsewhere, HNTB was able to bring
the front row of the upper deck as close to the playing field as possible, thus creating a great crowd environment. Bringing the fans closer to the field was an important consideration.”
[Engineering News Record notes: “The project has at least two claims to fame. The 49ers team is the first sports franchise to use a hybrid, collaborative project delivery model – from day one – that combines the best features of several delivery systems, including integrated project delivery. The second distinction is that the steel structure – designed to resist seismic loads through a braced frame – is the first NFL stadium to use BRBs. The 529 BRBs, which resist lateral loads, have structural and architectural benefits, in terms of earthquake resistance
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