Designed and constructed on an aggressive 21-month schedule, the $38.3-million multi-use BB&T Point stadium is a fitting catalyst to jump-start economic development in downtown High Point.
The first man-made crystalline lagoon of its kind in the U.S. caused challenges for the local permitting agency, which had never permitted anything like it.
Construction of this two-and-a-quarter-mile-long oval track for the high-speed testing of emerging toll technologies, intelligent transportation systems and automated/connected vehicles required 1 million cu yd of earthwork and the construction of two 30-ft-high MSE retaining walls and two detention ponds to support the track.
When weather-related delays, complex building details and other constraints put the 33-story tower 30 days behind schedule, the team turned to lean practices to recover time.
Distinctive in both shape and function, the 62-story, 709-ft-tall condominium tower features a one-of-a-kind undulating structural exoskeleton consisting of 5,000 custom-built glass-fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) panels.