Heinz Field
HOK Sport + Venue + Event,
Hunt Construction/Mascaro Construction
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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.
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