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The school’s new football performance center, a roughly $92 million effort, includes a 233,400-sq.-ft. overall facility consisting of a 138,100-sq.-ft. football operations building and 95,300-sq.-ft. indoor practice facility.
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Auburn Embarks On Its Largest Athletics Project in School History In east-central Alabama, construction is under way on the largest athletics project in Auburn University’s history. The school’s new football performance center, a roughly $92 million effort, includes a 233,400-sq.-ft. overall facility consisting of a 138,100-sq.-ft. football operations building and 95,300-sq.-ft. indoor practice facility. The project also calls for two full-sized, natural turf football practice fields. “Auburn was on the leading edge for football facilities when the current facility was built in the 1980s,” said Yann Cowart, vice president, sports architecture of Goodwyn Mills Cawood architecture and engineering firm. “Since then, the world of collegiate sports has changed dramatically in a number of ways, including conference expansion, dominance of the SEC, recruiting, player development, wellness and recovery and player retention. “The facility has consciously aligned player development as its guiding principles, while keeping the facility integral to the campus fabric and collegiate experience.” The project will include a weight room, indoor and outdoor practice fields, an equipment lab, a hydrotherapy pool, a player’s locker room and lounge and a teaching lab adjacent to meeting rooms. Cowart said the project would not have been possible without the vision of the university’s president, board of trustees, athletics’ leadership and alumni who share a love for the university and what it represents. According to campus architect David Bess, design lead for the project, “The intent of the football performance center project is to provide the Auburn University football program with the key and essential capabilities and resources needed to successfully compete with its SEC and national peers. “When the project was initiated, Auburn University began a search for an architectural team with specific expertise in designing collegiate football performance and operations facilities for Power 5 conference athletic programs. We knew we needed extensive experience in athletics master planning and successfully executing the design and construction of collegiate/professional football performance and operations facilities.”
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