The Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology is a 100,000-square-foot athletic support facility located at the northeast corner of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field in Atlanta.
Designed as a centralized hub for Georgia Tech’s athletic programs, the building houses strength and conditioning areas, sports medicine and recovery spaces, nutrition services, meeting rooms, and a sports science laboratory that analyzes athlete performance using motion-capture and data analytics technologies.
Architecturally, the structure emphasizes transparency and sustainability through extensive glass façades and exposed cross-laminated mass timber elements, creating a modern facility that visually connects with the stadium and provides views of the football field.
The structural system incorporates a steel frame engineered with a sustainable material-reuse strategy: several structural members were salvaged from the stadium’s demolished upper-deck raker system, cut and refabricated, and repurposed as beams and columns within the new building.
This adaptive reuse reduced embodied carbon while physically integrating elements of the historic stadium into the new performance center’s structure.
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Adaptive Reuse of Structural Steel Sections Removed from a Demolished Portion of Bobby Dodd Stadium
