The University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross Athletic Campus Athletics South Competition and Performance project consisted of constructing several new indoor and outdoor South Campus athletic venues, the University’s largest sports-focused new construction project in decades.
A new 160,000 SF multipurpose facility, built on 17 acres, serves student-athletes involved with track and field, cross country, lacrosse, wrestling, tennis, rowing and gymnastics. This facility includes:
- An outdoor track venue that accommodates 2,000 spectators
- A 100,000 SF indoor track facility for 1,000 fans that includes one of only nine hydraulically banked running tracks in the United States
- An outdoor lacrosse stadium that houses 3,000 spectators
- An indoor rowing facility that allows the team to train in competition conditions year-round
- Shared performance lab, locker rooms, strength and conditioning facilities, meeting space and sports medicine facilities
This project involved a major pre-construction effort including multiple estimates for 6 buildings and outdoor facilities that comprise the state-of-the-art sporting complex. Granger utilized a 3-D estimating program to produce highly detailed cost estimates. Impressively, these estimates were within 3% of the comparison estimate produced by the University and 2% under budget on bid day.