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DPR Construction Builds Georgia Tech Fanning Center By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
As part of Georgia Institute of Technology’s multi-million-dollar upgrade of its athletic infrastructure through its “Full Steam Ahead” fundraising initiative, DPR Construction is building the Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center (Fanning Center) at the Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field in Atlanta. Work on the stadium’s northeast corner began in March 2024 and should be finished in the spring of 2026, with the building open to the public shortly afterward. The Fanning Center is replacing the concrete Brutalist–style former Edge/Rice Center with a building that is technologically advanced yet sensitive to the surrounding buildings. The new center will include a significant area of glass, which extends from the exterior of the stadium to a section of seating overlooking the football field’s end zone. S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM) designed the 100,000-sq.-ft. building to improve the performance of Georgia Tech athletes. The Fanning Center will include spaces for sports medicine, athlete strength and conditioning, academic support, nutrition support and a sports science lab that employs pro-model motion tracking to ana-
lyze athlete performance data. There is also space dedicated to Georgia Tech football — meeting spaces and coaches’ offices. The building is named in honor of Georgia Tech alumnus Thomas A. Fanning, who holds three degrees from the institute and served as its president and CEO of the Southern Co. from 2010-2023. SLAM completed the design in 2024. DPR Construction is the contractor. “The building is on a very tight site that abuts two existing operational buildings,” said Marc Clear, a SLAM principal. “Connecting to these buildings to improve circulation on game days and every day was paramount. The building is designed to seamlessly connect to both buildings at roughly 15 different locations. This design dictated an unusual footprint that is structurally challenging as well.” “The building has a high-performing envelope in order to operate efficiently and reduce energy usage for heating and cooling the building,” he added. “Connections to these buildings had to be closely coordinated to maintain the performance of the envelope as well as water tightness.” A signed steel beam is hoisted into see DPR page 6
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Workers maneuver into place the beam used for the topping off ceremony of the Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center at Georgia Tech University.
GDOT to Begin $104M Road Widening Project Near Atlanta The largest section of a widening project along Georgia Highway 20 north of the Atlanta metro area will soon be getting under way, the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) announced. The state agency awarded Marietta, Ga.’s C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc. a $104 million contract to widen the roadway from Ga. 369 in Cherokee County to Post Road in Forsyth County. It is cur-
rently the largest active contract for road projects in northwest Georgia, GDOT noted in a news release. This portion of the east-west Ga. 20 project runs approximately 6 mi. and will undergo an expansion to three lanes in each direction. Two phases in Cherokee County that stretch from Interstate 575 to Union Hill Road are nearly complete, while the Forsyth County phase from Post Road to North Corners Parkway is under construction with
a current completion date set for the summer of 2028. The new construction will include the installation of reduced conflict U-turns (RCUTs) at various intersections and raised medians along the highway. That work is expected to get under way in the coming months and is slated to be finished in November 2028, according to the transportation department. see GDOT page 6
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The new construction will include the installation of reduced conflict U-turns (RCUTs) at various intersections and raised medians along the highway.