Institutional

Webb School Athletic Facilities

Knoxville, TN

This 28,000-SF project consisted of a new 20,000-SF Fitness & Training Facility and 8,400-SF Hitting & Pitching Complex.

The Bailey Family Fitness & Training Facility includes practice, weightlifting, and cardio areas. It also has a golf training bay, nutrition area, and classrooms.

The Clark Wormsley Hitting & Pitching Complex has a netted indoor practice area that includes three full length pitching lanes, three full length hitting lanes, changing rooms, equipment storage areas, and construction of a softball diamond.

Tennessee School for the Deaf Student Residence Hall

This CM project scope includes demolition of the existing 22 cottages and related site infrastructure. The new 2-story, 60K-sf Residence Hall will include 72 double occupancy bedrooms to house 144 students. Facility amenities include a social activity space for all of the building occupants, large residential style kitchen on each level, dining room, living room, laundry room and bathrooms. Successful Safety practices were utilized during the Construction period which took place during the school year allowing for continuous operation and proper residential resources for on campus students.

University of Tennessee Zeanah Engineering Complex

Knoxville

This project was for Preconstruction and Construction Services on a seven story (five levels, basement and mechanical penthouse) 230,000SF higher education engineering (primarily nuclear ) laboratory, classroom and offices building, which followed the State of Tennessee High Performance Building Requirements (HPBR). The demolition of three existing buildings was required prior to construction.

The cast-in place concrete structure has a clay tile roof, a brick, limestone and metal panel façade, and is constructed on deep foundations that includes 97 drilled piers and a mass concrete foundation. The mat foundation alone consist of over 5,000 CY of concrete. The project sits below road level and includes a 20’ shoring wall and building retaining walls around three sides of the building.

UTK Rocky Top Dining Hall

Knoxville

This  project consists of a new 78,685-sf, three-story state of the art dining facility on the UTK campus that features a 1,200-seat dining facility, 3 story atrium and 120 seat Chick-fil-A restaurant that will be the anchor and hub of student life for the West Campus. Building construction consists of  deep foundations, conventional steel frame, brick and cast stone veneer, composite slate shingle roofing, smoke control system, terrazzo flooring, multiple large walk-in freezers/coolers, and a large array of kitchen equipment to serve the different food stations.

Parking Structures

(1) 11th Street Parking Garage, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Nine story cast in place, post tensioned parking structure for 1,400 vehicles.  Included a pedestrian bridge over Cumberland Avenue.

(2) Walnut Street Garage, Knoxville, TN
Ten story precast parking structure for 1,099 vehicles.  Includes retail, storage facility and a connecting pedestrian bride.

(3) Terrace Avenue Parking Garage, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Eight story, cast in place, post tensioned parking structure for 1,000 vehicles.  The exterior is precast panels with brick.

(4) Volunteer Blvd. Parking Garage, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Six story, cast in place, post tensioned parking structure for 1,050 vehicles.  Includes a large open air colonnade connecting to the adjacent student housing.

University of Tennessee Anderson Training Facility

Knoxville, TN

145,000 SF state-of-the-art football training center is one of the most modern and functional buildings of its kind. Including an amphitheater-style team room, coaches offices, recruiting area, position meeting rooms, a dining hall, player’s lounge, a 7,000 SF locker room, a 22,000 SF multi-level weight room as well as a new training room and hydrotherapy area.

University of Tennessee Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center

Knoxville, TN

The wide span structure encloses an eight-lane 50-meter by 25-yard competition pool and a separate Olympic Style competition diving well.

University of Tennessee Neyland Stadium Improvements

Knoxville, TN

85,000 SF New Construction Gate 21 Plaza and 40,000 SF Renovation of the Tennessee Terrace.

University of Tennessee Thompson Boling Arena Improvements

Knoxville, TN

The renovation included construction of 32 Luxury Suites and the Lodge Level, two new passenger elevators and one wheel chair lift to serve the Suites and Lodge Level. Removed and replaced 20,000+ seats and bleachers in the facility and the addition of an NBA Style scoreboard.

University of Tennessee Min Kao Electrical & Computer Engineering Facility

Knoxville, TN

197,000 SF 6-story building with 180,000 SF of classrooms, research labs, conference rooms and computer rooms. Also included is an adjoining 17,000 SF auditorium building.

University of Tennessee Joint Institute For Advanced Materials

Knoxville, TN

144,000 SF joint project of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a 4-story lab and classroom.  The facility also includes a seminar room, conference room and second and third floors.

University of Tennessee Fred D. Brown Jr. Residence Hall

Knoxville, TN

A seven-story, post tensioned concrete frame with brick veneer, 260,000 SF student housing dormitory in the center of the campus. The first new dormitory project on the University of Tennessee campus in over 40 years and accommodates over 700 students.

Stokely Residence Hall

Knoxville, TN

A 380,000 SF, post tensioned concrete frame with brick veneer, dormitory includes 9-stories of housing, a basement for mechanical and food services with private dining for 700 students. Amenities include a fitness room, residence hall director and assistant director’s apartments, laundry rooms, vending areas, study rooms, recreation room and meeting rooms.

University of Tennessee Chattanooga Aquatic and Recreation Center

Chattanooga, TN

This three story recreational campus facility contains an 1/8 mile indoor track, multi-sport courts for basketball, volleyball, badminton and indoor soccer, locker rooms and a four-story enclosed climbing wall tower with bouldering and free climb areas.

Rocky Top Sports World

Gatlinburg, TN

86,000 SF indoor sports facility that includes six basketball courts (plus four more on site), 12 volleyball courts (plus five more on site), an indoor climbing wall, a retail area, and three private team rooms.  The project included seven synthetic turf multi-purpose fields and a high school baseball facility.

Webb School

Knoxville, TN

54,000 SF project consisted of the redesign of the entrance road and upper school portal along with the construction of the Founder’s Commons, a five hundred seat amphitheater with fountains, a clock tower and music carillon, the renovation of an existing two-story building into an international study center and the construction of a 35,000 SF Science Center.

King Family Library

Sevierville, TN

43,000 SF Library has distinct high grade interior finishes including concrete counter tops, glass handrails and interior aluminum frames with wood doors and timber trusses. The Library houses a Grand Reading Room, a Children’s Area, a Teen Center and a genealogy area.

SNS Central Lab & Office

Oak Ridge, TN

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is an accelerator-based neutron source that is built on an 80-acre site adjacent to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.  This one-of-a-kind facility provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development.

Blaine Construction’s participation in the SNS project included the construction of nine projects over a six year period.  These include the Front End Building/LINAC, the Ring Tunnel /HEBT/RTBT, the Target Building, Beam Lines 13 & 14, the Central Exhaust Facility, the CHL/RF Cryo Building, the Central Laboratory and Office Building and the Center of Nanophase Material Sciences.

The Central Laboratory and Office Building (CLO) comprised of four story lab and office wing to the north and a six story office/ lobby to the south. The building houses the operations team for the SNS project as well as numerous support laboratories such as electronics, vacuum and computers. It also contains the control room to operate the entire SNS facility.

The Center for Nanophase Material Science (CNMS) Building comprised of a four story Lab and office wing and a single story Mechanical and Clean Room wing. The building is connected to the CLO Building on three levels through a glass enclosed catwalk. The building is structure features a curved façade and includes the same exterior features as the CLO building. With construction complete, the building appears to be an extension of the CLO Building.

SNS Central Lab & Office/Nanophase

Oak Ridge, TN

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is an accelerator-based neutron source that is built on an 80-acre site adjacent to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This one-of-a-kind facility provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development.

Blaine Construction’s participation in the SNS project included the construction of nine projects over a six year period. These include the Front End Building/LINAC, the Ring Tunnel /HEBT/RTBT, the Target Building, Beam Lines 13 & 14, the Central Exhaust Facility, the CHL/RF Cryo Building, the Central Laboratory and Office Building and the Center of Nanophase Material Sciences.

The Ring Tunnel installation comprised of 1,900 LF radius cast-in-place concrete tunnel, foundations for 5’ thick foundations and walls for inactive beam dumps. Also included was the 5’ thick basement foundation for the Injection Dump. Also included was the 20’ x 20’ Injection Dump Beam Vault which was lined with .750” carbon steel plate and a stainless lined tank vault.

The Target Building included installation of some of the most sophisticated equipment in the world. The building had to be closed in to allow for all trades to work prior to the equipment erection. A removable rolling roof section was designed to allow for the area of the Target to be accessed while maintaining building enclosure. This required that all lifting be in the blind and by radio communication. Blaine performed over 1,000 lifts in excess of 20,000 lbs, 100 lifts in excess of 50,000 lbs and 50 lifts in excess of 100,000 lbs. This was without a single incident. Heavy weight concrete was utilized in the Target monolith and hot cell walls up to 14’ thick and elevated slabs to 5’ thick. The aggregate for this concrete is barged from Brazil, and batched at a cost of $690.00 per cuyd. Due to the weight, 260 lbs per cuft, only four yards can be hauled by a ready mix truck. Extensive form work was required to support the concrete placements. Within the same walls, imbeds weighing as much as 80,000 lbs had to be held within .0001 inch. Grouting was accomplished on most of the equipment utilizing a grout that contained ground up engine blocks as an aggregate, weighed 290 lbs per cuft and at the cost of $1,600 per cuyd.