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The eyes of government, business and taxpayers are fixed upon your project when you undertake the challenge of building a sports or entertainment facility. The new structure or renovated facility must reflect high quality and best value for the investment. And, the project is often under the scrutiny of tight time and budgetary constraints. Only a team of union contractors and craftsmen can deliver superior results under this pressure.

The union construction industry routinely produces experienced, motivated, skilled and safety-conscious professionals for sports and entertainment facility projects. A union partnership means professional management of the jobsite to leverage the most from materials and manpower. Union craftsmanship means the facility's useful life is extended, while future maintenance costs are minimized.

UPMC Sports Performance Complex
This project combined in one location the needs of two football teams, one professional and one collegiate, and a comprehensive sports medice facility. Workers were challenged by a fast-tracked, 16-month schedule created to meet end-user requirements due to demolition of their former facilities. Challenges also surfaced from the project's location, an old steel mill flanked by a river and a busy rail line, as well as utility easements to the east and west. Despite these and many other roadblocks, the facility opened on time and on budget.

Some other sports and entertainment projects include: • Byham Theater Renovations • North Franklin Sports Complex Baseball Stadium • Shanopin Country Club Renovations • W&J College Football Stadium • Benedum Theater Renovations • Pittsburgh Children's Museum

Heinz Field
Sixty different trade contractors worked together to meet tight deadlines and budget constraints. One-third of the 1.5 million sqare feet in enclosed space that holds restaurants, lounges, a Great Hall, interactive games and a video wall. Two acres of natrual grass sit atop heating elements. Despite numerous challenges associated with a project of this magnitude, it was completed under budget and in time to host opening day of the professional football season.

O'Reilly Theater
Challenges were common during the development of this 650-seat theater. But from the discovery of existing adverse conditions on a site requiring over-excavation, and the installation of large composite steel and concrete trussed spanning the rear of the auditorium, to supporting the barrel-vaulted roof and creating well-crafted finishes, the project team retained the design visions of the owner and the design team. And nto only did the theater open on time, but also a short puchlist saved the owner tens of thousands of dollars.

O'Reilly Theater

Heinz Field

"The o'Reilly Theater provided a number of unique challenges as a highly visible project on a tight urban site. More visible exterior and interior finish elements, such as exposed architectural concrete stair risers, curving millwork and the vaulted copper roof, were all beautifully executed."

Caroline L. Hancock
Director of Communications
Michael Graves & Associates

"There's not a city in the country that built two ballparks and a new convention center all at the same time. Not only are we building them, but we're on budget, on schedule, and we're doing it because the unions are good partners."

Tom Murphy
Mayor
City of Pittsburgh