A+F Athletic Projects
Audi Field – DC United’s New Stadium
Washington, DC
DC United’s new stadium, Audi field, will seat up to 20,000 and includes 500,000 square feet of mixed-use retail and residential space on site.
Its unique plate girder design was developed to accommodate stringent vibration criteria and site constraints such as the Pepco easement over which the main building spans.
The project features a very aggressive design-assist / design build schedule.
Architect: Populous
Contractor: Turner
John. R Thompson Jr. Intercollegiate Athletic Center
Georgetown University, Washington DC
A+F Engineers is the Structural Engineer of Record of the new John R. Thompson Intercollegiate Athletics Center for Georgetown University.
The 136,000 square foot, three-story building houses state-of-the-art training facilities for the university’s signature athletic programs as well as academic support centers for the university’s student athletes. The athletic training facility features vertically stacked basketball courts, which posed significant design challenges to meet the stringent vibration standards over large spans. The center also includes attached offices, meeting spaces, seminar rooms, and lounge areas.
The construction was completed in October of 2016 and the building is LEED Gold certified.
Bowie Gridley Architects, D.C., Populous, Kansas City, MO
2017 ACEC/MW Awards
Image courtesy of A2 Design
Isreal Baptist Church – IMI Life Learning Center
Washington, DC
Ward 5’s Israel Baptist Church is building a new 42,000 sq. ft. life-learning center. The center, which is under the church’s non-profit- Israel Manor Incorporated or IMI- will be called the IMI Life Learning Center and is scheduled to open by the end of 2014. The center will be a three-level facility and will house Unity Health Center on the first two floors as the facility’s tenant. The third level of the facility will be a multipurpose space that the church will use to hold and operate various programming and community functions. The third floor will have office space and a Gymnasium which will be open to the community to use for basketball games, banquets, weddings, church functions, concerts and activities.
Architect: A2 Design, VA
A+F Key Personnel Athletic Experience
Washington Nationals Ballpark
Washington, DC
41,000-seat Major League Baseball Stadium.
Design-Built under fast track schedule.
Opened on March 30, 2008.
Architect: HOK/Devrouax & Purnell,PLLC
Structural Engineer: ReStl/Thorton Tomasetti
Dimitrios Frantzis served as ReStl’s Project Manager for the Washington Ballpark Project
EOR ReStl / Design by Dimitrios Frantzis, PE prior to the formation of A+F Engineers