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University
of Central Florida Brighthouse Networks Stadium/Orlando,
Florida
Design-Build Team
Architect
360 Architecture/Kansas City, Missouri
Contractor
Wharton Smith, Inc./Lake Monroe, Florida
Owner
Florida Board of Education/Tallahassee, Florida
Size
45,000 seats, designed to expand to 65,000 seats
Cost
$42 million
TLC Services
M/E
 
With
an initial seating capacity of 45,000 – including
25 luxury suites and 800 club seats – the stadium
is designed to expand to 65,000 seats to meet future needs
of the rapidly growing university. The concourse is divided
into inner and outer rings of services to allow for easier
pedestrian flow, with restrooms and locker rooms in the
inner ring and additional restrooms, concessions, and
game-day support spaces in the outer ring. TLC joined
with mechanical subcontractor Lake Mechanical to provide
HVAC and plumbing design-build services for the stadium.
Spaces in the press box tower, home and visitor’s
locker rooms, recruiting club and adjacent support buildings
are individually conditioned and temperature controlled,
with the campus chilled water central energy plant as
the main source of cooling. The plumbing domestic water
system for the tower is designed to reduce pump cycling
during low-flow conditions. The large number of fixtures
on the main concourse – 311 women’s toilets,
114 men’s toilets and 105 urinals – puts a high
instant demand on the domestic hot water system. Therefore,
the system was designed to handle large peak flows in
short periods of time. Each of the locker rooms is provided
with domestic hot water generated by its own large- volume
water heater. The remainder of the building, excluding
the janitor’s closets, is not provided with domestic
hot water in order to reduce energy consumption. Tri-City
Electrical Contractors hired TLC to provide electrical
design services including emergency power distribution,
concourse lighting, electrical power distribution, broadcast
cabling, and site lighting.
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