Heinz FieldHOK Sport + Venue + Event, In 2002 BNI won the American Consulting Engineers Council, Engineering Excellence, Grand Award for their structural design of Heinz Field which features exposed steel designed to be architecturally proportioned and structurally functional. Structural steel was natural for the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers. The 64,450 seat stadium was completed in September 2001, and is also home for the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team. The upper seating deck, protected by a seventy-five foot cantilevered canopy, is supported on tapered diagonal steel pipes bearing on "quad pods" at the upper concourse level forming an integral part of the building's character. The upper seating deck cantilevers forty-five feet over the 129 luxury suites that seat 1,500. The club lounges are located below the suites and serve 6,600 club seats. |
Hexagonal cantilevered ramps structures with fabric roof, at both sides of the south end zone, provide spectacular column free views of both the action on the field and of the city. The stadium is supported on an auger cast-in-place pile foundation. |
