UNC Charlotte Jerry Richardson Football Stadium
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SKA provided structural engineering design for this two-story, 46,150 sf field house; retaining wall and storage building required for relocation of fields 8 and 9; a 70 foot pre-engineered prefabricated steel pedestrian bridge added to cross over a wetland to tie two practice fields together; a 6,636 sf press box, complete with media seating; television and radio booths; and coaches and private suites for both university and visiting team dignitaries; 27,275 sf of concourse buildings for concessions, merchandise, restrooms, and a ticket booth. SKA provided foundation drawings for a pre-engineered metal building and performed a load capacity analysis of the scoreboard support structure. The playing field is 98,000 sf and the playing fields total 145,000 sf.

The new 15,300 seat stadium is designed for future expansion to accommodate up to 40,000. The Football Center, located in the stadium’s south end zone includes team showers and locker rooms, strength training, hydrotherapy, sports medicine, meeting rooms, coaches’ offices, academic spaces, and more than 11,000 sf training area.