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DEAR READERS hat an experience it has been for everyone at Manhattan Construction Company to build the new awe-inspiring home of the Texas Rangers — Globe Life Field! Globe Life Field is Manhattan’s fifth project with an Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Partnership agreement. With more than 6 million work hours and 11,000 workers on the job site during construction, safety was the priority. OSHA’s safety team partnered with us every step of the way to keep workers safe on this highly complex construction project. Manhattan extends our heartfelt thanks to Ray Davis and Neil Leibman; the entire Texas Rangers organization; Mayor Jeff Williams; and the city of Arlington for the opportunity to serve fans and the Arlington community. As a fifth-generation Rooney family-owned company, our Manhattan team was delighted to build the Rangers’ original ballpark in Arlington and to serve this community again 24 years later to build Globe Life Field. Our experience with the Rangers team has been nothing short of exemplary. The Rangers’ Rob Matwick, John Blake, Chuck Morgan, Mike Healy and Jack Hill have been supportive team members, and we couldn’t have accomplished what we did without their constant engagement for the past three years. Thank you to the design professionals for their collaboration during construction: HKS Inc., Walter P Moore, ME Engineers, WJHW, SWA, MMA, VAI and all of the consultants who played significant roles in the successful completion of Globe Life Field. We sincerely appreciate ACARI Management Group Inc., for their dedication and support

with community outreach, which helped the project achieve its MWBE participation goal. Manhattan is honored to be the construction manager for this new, 1.8 million-square-foot, retractable roof, MLB ballpark, but we didn’t build it alone. Building is a team sport, and we wish to recognize our trade partners. It has been our privilege to work with some of the most skilled and dedicated craftspeople in the industry. The stories in this publication provide a window into the behind-the-scenes feats of collaboration that show how important our partners were in building this tremendous structure. At Manhattan, we care deeply about the longterm success of our clients, our communities, the structures we build and the people who build them. As our family of builders enters the gates of this newly minted stadium on Opening Day, we will share with our children the unforgettable story of how it came to be. This story will be passed down for generations to come. “Building Excellence” is a family tradition. We dedicate this TEAMWORK publication in honor of all who were part of bringing this prestigious ballpark to life. We look forward to seeing the fans enjoy the new ballpark and build new, exciting memories with their families. Go Rangers! With gratitude,

Larry Rooney, President Manhattan Construction Group

John Reyhan, President Manhattan Construction Company

TA B L E O F C O B AT T E R U P From the Rangers

Project Timeline

Nearly 11,000 dedicated construction professionals have worked around the clock to build this magnificent facility.

Catch an inside glimpse of the construction of Globe Life Field, from start to finish.

Infographic

Learn about the most iconic features of Globe Life Field.

Bases Loaded: Meet the Building Team

It took more than 6 million work hours to build the 1.8-million-square-foot ballpark.

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From Dugout to Diamond

During excavation, crews hauled 97,000 truckloads of dirt from the work site.

Colossal Brick Archways: Iconic Views from Inside and Out 32 The brick archways, taken from Globe Life Park, nod to the Texas Rangers’ history and welcome future fans.

Power Hitter: Rangers’ Rolling Roof

The world’s largest single-panel retractable roof needed the world’s largest American-made conventional crawler crane to be put together.

EDITORIAL Innovative Publishing; Manhattan Construction Co. Communications, Natalie Pagano. PUBLISHER Innovative Publishing. Contact Aran Jackson at 502.423.7272 or aran@innovativepublishing.com for more information. DESIGN Innovative Publishing, Molly Dixon, Catherine Meany; Manhattan Construction Co. Communications, Jessica Allée. SPECIAL THANKS Texas Rangers, Madison Pelletier; Manhattan Construction Co., Thai Tia; Ralph Cole Photography, Lisa Newman. PHOTOS Texas Rangers, Kelly Gavin (pages 16, 17, 20, 21, 26-33, 55, 58, 59, 72); Ralph Cole Photography, Inc. (pages 1, 4, 5, 10, 11, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 40-41, 47-53, 60-66, 68-73); Manhattan Construction Co. (pages 12-15, 18, 19, 34, 35, 37-41, 54, 55, 73) DRONE PHOTOGRAPHY Manhattan Construction Co., Josh Weisinger and Jared Peinado. Manhattan Construction Company takes pride in being a good steward of the environment and our planet’s natural resources. Copyright © 2020 by Manhattan Construction Company. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.

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The Coolest Game in Texas

40,000-plus Texas Rangers fans won’t feel the Texas summer heat thanks to the climate-controlling HVAC system.

From Infield to Outfield, Synthetic Grass Is a Solid Hit

A high-quality field leads to high-quality games, and the synthetic turf at Globe Life Field will not disappoint eager fans.

Every Run Is Up-Close with Fiber Optics and Video Production 52 Wherever fans are in the ballpark, they won’t miss a second of the action on the field.

HOME RUN Wide Open Views

Sweet Seats at Every Level

What’s on the Texas Rangers’ Home Field Plate?

The 1,000-foot glass curtain wall on the north façade is just one of several jaw-dropping glass features of the stadium.

The high-quality, innovative seating system ensures fan engagement will be comfortably focused on the game.

Baseball-themed food and beverages will fuel fans from the first inning to the ninth.

MANHATTAN CONSTRUCTION PROJECT TEAM David Adams • Adan Aguilera • Eric Arellano • Oscar Arredondo • Jeremy Ballard • Jose Barrientos • David Barton • Bill Bonner Jose Bran • Chris Brooks • Tommy Busby • Jeramey Camarillo • Antonio Chavez • Marcelo Chavez • Jonathan Collins • Darlena Corley • Francisco Cruz • James Cuddihee • David Daniels • Jessica Day • Cameron DeRouen • Ramon Diaz • Tyler Dickerson • Louis Alan Dunnam • Brandon Earman • Chase Eubanks • EJ Evans • Indalesio Flores • Jose Saul Fuentes Abel Gallegos • Luis Garcia • Fabricio Garcia • Jaime Garcia • Raul Garza Davilla • Douglas Q. Glosson • Jaime Granado • Shane Griffin • Sergio Guevara • Jennifer Gullett Ricardo Hair • Andrew Halphen • Bruce Hard • John Heitmeyer • Jeff Howard • Telissa Hubbard • Virgilio Inglesias • Aurelio Ipina • Mark Jenkins • Christy Kimbrell • Jeff Knipper Tom Kramer • Collin Lane • Paul Lara • Sandy Leibau • Dakota Liles • John Lopez • Jose Lopez • Martin Lopez Martin • Reynaldo Lopez • Roberto Loranca • Juventcio Macilla Curry Mapes • Brett Marshall • Gabriela Martinez • Joel Martinez • Jose D. Martinez • Omar Martinez • Ricardo Martinez • Braulio Mata Rico • Greg McClure • Baromiano Mendez Justin Milam • Jeff Mitchell • Luis Moran • Gerson Moreira • Jose Moreno • Antony Omondi • Ariel Ortiz • Jesus Ortiz • Relles Ortiz • Anthony Osorio • Nicolas Osorio • Cyrus Pattermann Andy Patteson • Jacob Pechauer • Jared Peinado • Manolo Perez • Alfredo Perez Pacheco • Grant Phifer • Nelson Ramirez • Rob Rawls • Landry Ray • Francisco Masqueda Razo Juventino Resendiz • Omar Resendiz • Vincente Rivera • Erik Rodriguez Barajas • John Rogers • Mallory Scoppa • John Sewall • Juan Sifuentes • Byron Smith • Rene Solis • Carlos Suarez Kyle Sutton • Osvaldo Tamayo • Josh Tobolka • Victor Torres • Edwin Vanegas • Elmer Vargas • Paul Vasquez • Bob Vecera • Ruben Vega • Christopher Vega • Donald Veitenheimer Eric Voigt • Bill Walter • Josh Weisinger • Federico Yanez • Brett Young • Jaime Zamarrippa • Cristian Zetino • Jose Zetino • Santos Zetino

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From initial plans to project completion, the story of Globe Life Field is one of incredible feats. It all began with a vision of a one-of-a-kind, 21st-century ballpark and a team of experienced, driven professionals.

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t has been an exciting and unique experience to watch the construction of Globe Life Field. Over the last 30 months, we have seen the project evolve from a parking lot to a state-of-theart ballpark and multipurpose venue that will be unsurpassed in Major League Baseball. I think I speak for everyone in the Texas Rangers organization that the opportunity to work on this project with the outstanding men and women of Manhattan Construction has been a real privilege. It has been a real team effort, from the exceptional and unwavering supervision of Jim Cuddihee and Greg McClure to the nearly 11,000 dedicated construction professionals who have worked around the clock to build this magnificent facility. From the distinctive retractable roof to the elegant finishes, Manhattan’s experienced service and attention to detail are evident throughout every level of Globe Life Field. The Texas Rangers and our fans are very proud to call Globe Life Field our new home. Thank you for your extraordinary role in making this happen. Sincerely,

Ray Davis Co-Chairman & Managing Partner

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G LO B E LI FE FI ELD NEW HOME OF THE TEX AS RANGERS CONSTRUCTION TIMELINE GRAPHICS BY JESSICA ALLÉE, MANHATTAN CONSTRUCTION CO. COMMUNICATIONS

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GLOBE LIFE FIELD GRAPHICS BY JESSICA ALLÉE, MANHATTAN CONSTRUCTION CO. COMMUNICATIONS

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C O N S T R U C T I O N F A C T S T H AT A R E O U T O F T H I S B A L L PA R K S TA D I U M FAC T S • Approximately 40,300 seats

• The field is 50’ below street level

• 1.8-million-square-foot stadium

• 725 concrete columns

• 13-acre site

• Nine video boards (horizontal & vertical)

• 97,000 truckloads of dirt removed from the site

• Five entry gates

• Second video board 40’x120’ (4,800 square feet)

• 13 escalators

• 50’ – depth to basement level 14

• Main concourse level 14’ closer than the previous stadium • 24 elevators

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S E AT I N G B O W L • 12 cranes used to install bowl steel • 9,700 “picks” – number of times a crane will pick up a piece of steel • 70% of seats are within the foul poles

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62’ SUITE CONCOURSE LEVEL • 43 Classic Suites • 14 Party Suites • Eight Custom Themed Loge Suites

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5 LO W E R L E V E L S U I T E S • First Base Club 430 capacity • Speakeasy Club 140 capacity • 10 Founders Suites • 22 Legacy Suites • 8 Corporate Loges FIELD LEVEL • Home Plate Club 600 capacity • 1st Base Lounge 135 capacity • 3rd Base Lounge 190 capacity • 12 Home Plate Box Suites • 2 East/West Owners Suites

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N O R T H P L A Z A F O U N TA I N Fountain has LED lighting installed in the Rangers’ colors for water shows.

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F I E L D D E TA I L S • Left Field Line: 329’ (Adrian Beltre’s #29) • Left Field Power Alley: 372’ (Rangers’ first year in Arlington — 1972) • Center Field: 407’ (Ivan Rodriguez’s #7) • Deepest Distance of Park: 410’ (Michael Young’s #10) • Right Field Power Alley: 374’ (The Turnaround Gang, 57 to 84 wins — 1974) • Right Field Line: 326’ (Johnny Oates’ #26)

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BASES LOADE MEET THE BUILDING TEAM

From October 2017 to March 2020, Manhattan Construction team members and their trade partners spent more than 6 million work hours constructing the 1.8-million-square-foot ballpark, Globe Life Field, for the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas. BY AMANDA PENNINGTON

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project of this size and complexity requires a construction and design team that cohesively works together with precision to provide the Texas Rangers with a spectacular ballpark on opening day and thereafter. “Projects like this are a lot different than a school or an office building,” Jim Cuddihee, vice president of operations at Manhattan Construction, said. “On a big project like this, the dedication that everybody has to get [the stadium] built in the timeframe that we have — we know that on March 14, Chris Stapleton and Willie Nelson will have a concert here, and we know that on March 31, the Rangers are going to have opening day and play baseball — there’s no not hitting those dates. Everybody just needs to come together as a team and get to the same end result.” Approximately 60 Manhattan office employees work on the stadium, including superintendents, project managers, and project engineers. Another 70 hourly Manhattan employees work in the field as carpenters, laborers and operators. Including trade partner team members, approximately 11,000 people have worked on site throughout the life of the project. According to Greg McClure, Manhattan Construction senior vice president of North Texas and project director of Globe Life Field, the project team includes a range of Manhattan employees, “from vice president to project engineers who are just straight out of college and coming to work for the first time in their careers.” Between trade partner staff and Manhattan staff, “we average about 1,600 workers on-site each day. That’s your craft workers, the guys who are installing the drywall, painting the walls, installing the tiles, painting the steel, laying concrete … and an untold amount of management in all of those contractor trailers that are managing each one of the roughly 110 subcontractors.” To stay organized, the Globe Life Field team is sorted according to job duties. “Every scope of work has a full team on it,” McClure said, “where you’ll have a project engineer, a project manager, an assistant project manager and then a superintendent who’s overseeing their scope to ensure that everything gets done on the job site correctly.” For example, at the beginning of the project, Manhattan learned some connection details would be more involved than originally expected. Oklahoma-based W&W AFCO Steel handled steel fabrication and collaborated with Manhattan engineers to plan for the amount of steel, install the structures, test operations and stay

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on schedule. This achievement alone, McClure said, “is just an unbelievable feat of sheer will and manpower to get things done,” considering Globe Life Field is one of the largest steel structures currently being built in the U.S. The steel structure also required more safety measures. “With our steel suppliers, those guys are in harm’s way every day just because of where they work,” McClure said. “They’re walking on beams 230 feet up in the air, and they do it in a safe, organized manner and have gotten this building in place and the roof operable within the same timeframe of what we anticipated [in 2017].”

ABOUT MANHATTAN CONSTRUCTION GROUP Founded in 1896, Manhattan Construction Company is part of Manhattan Construction Group, a fifthgeneration Rooney family-owned construction company with operations in the building, civil, pipeline and specialty construction segments. Under the Rooney family’s guidance, Manhattan team members carry on the timeless qualities of building trust with clients and the community, delivering on promises and providing exceptional construction services. Today, Manhattan employs approximately 1,600 people and builds in the U.S., Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Its operations include Manhattan Construction Company, Manhattan Road & Bridge Company, Manhattan Pipeline LLC, Manhattan International Construction Company Ltd, Cantera Concrete Company, Spectrum Contracting Inc. and Safe Zone LLC. The company is consistently recognized by Engineering News-Record as a top 50 contractor. Although Manhattan is known for building high-profile projects like Globe Life Field, the company has a diverse portfolio of work by contract size and type. Manhattan’s project portfolio is a balanced mix of private and public work among multiple project types.

Safety was a daily part of building Globe Life Field. It has been Manhattan’s No. 1 priority throughout the project’s 6 million work hours. “We have a very robust and aggressive safety program, which is called Operation Zero,” McClure said. “Our demands of upper management is that we have zero accidents on a project.” Manhattan and OSHA signed an OSHA Partnership agreement for the Globe Life Field project on July 26, 2018. This is Manhattan’s fifth OSHA Partnership. This collaboration allows OSHA to train their compliance officers on Manhattan sites while helping Manhattan leaders train employees on OSHA procedures. The OSHA

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“SAFETY IS ALWAYS A VERY HIGH PRIORITY FOR THE MANHATTAN TEAM ... THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ON THE JOB, IN ADDITION TO QUALITY CONSTRUCTION, IS THAT EVERYBODY GOES HOME SAFE AT THE END OF THE DAY.” – R O B M AT W I C K , E X E C U T I V E V I C E P R E S I D E N T, T E X A S R A N G E R S

The partnership demonstrates Manhattan’s commitment to safety. “We require everybody to go through orientation before they’re allowed out on-site,” Cuddihee said. “We strive to send everybody home in the same condition they came to work each day. We really try [to] get the workers out on-site to look out for each other. They might not work for the same company, but there’s a shared respect.” With 1,600 Manhattan workers on-site at once, it is a significant challenge to uphold the “zero accidents” standard — but with teamwork, it’s possible. “We have on-site safety personnel who [run] an almost hourly review of everything everyone is doing,” McClure said, “to make sure they are doing everything in a safe, reasonable manner to prevent accidents and to prevent harm.”

“They train their personnel … and do inspections with us, just walking the job site,” McClure said. “They provide all kinds of benefits to our subcontractors,” because if Manhattan’s smaller subcontractors don’t have a safety program in place, this partnership gives OSHA a way to help them.

From start to finish, the Globe Life Field team has faced unexpected challenges and proactively resolved them. When the project first began in October 2017, “we set dates and milestones of when things would be turning over. We’re hitting those,” McClure said. “That is not an easy task when the design is really involved … but we have some really talented people who are able to perceive what was going to come and get that in the schedule. It was very well planned by our project staff.”

“We don’t look at OSHA as some sort of police state,” McClure said. “They are our partner. They help us by being a second set of eyes, and [they] assist with reviewing everything on our site to make sure that everything is done in a way to prevent accidents to the everyday worker out there on the job site.”

With the finished stadium already a popular venue for community events and, of course, baseball games, Manhattan and its trade partners can look at Globe Life Field with a special sense of accomplishment. “It sure is fun to … watch it all come together,” McClure said. “It’s an accomplishment that not everybody gets to do in their career.”

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he official groundbreaking for Globe Life Field, the new home for the Texas Rangers, was September 28, 2017. A week later, crews were on-site to begin the excavation, which would eventually include more than 1.3 million cubic yards of dirt. To accomplish this large-scale excavation, crews worked 24/7 for months and hauled away an estimated 97,000 truckloads of dirt, said Alan Dunnam, senior superintendent at Manhattan Construction. Before excavation could begin, crews had to clear the site, which included moving existing underground utilities, demolishing an old parking lot and closing and removing part of Nolan Ryan Expressway. During excavation, crews ran into granite boulders that were the size of houses and had to be broken down using large hydraulic hammers and then hauled away. “We had to get a lot out of the way so we could go all the way down to the field level,” Dunnam said. Excavation crews also dug up an old, abandoned gas line that ran through the site but hadn’t been on anyone’s radar, according to Collin Lane, senior project engineer at Manhattan. Manhattan reached out to the natural gas distributor to make sure the pipeline was no longer in use. “We kind of knew it wasn’t, but we had to verify what it was, who it belonged to, and that it didn’t feed anything or service anything,” Lane said. “Then we capped it and excavated the rest out of the footprint of the building.” In all, about 1,200 loads of material were hauled from the site every day, with 70 to 80 trucks running 24/7 between the project site and the landfill, Lane said. As crews hauled away more and more dirt, that left more and more space for water to fall or seep into. “Any time it rains, you’re basically digging a massive, 20-acre lake,” laughed Shane Griffin, project manager at Manhattan. “We were digging right next to Johnson Creek, and our final elevation was actually lower than that creek. As you start digging, groundwater seeping in becomes a big issue in terms of being able to safely excavate or to safely perform the work,” Griffin explained. “I think our team did really well at managing that and choosing when to shut down for safety and push forward when we had the opportunity.” As the excavation contractor dug deeper, a retention system contractor built a retaining 28

wall to keep the dirt on the sides of the hole from collapsing into the hole. The two teams worked in tandem, digging and retaining layer by layer, which Lane described as similar to making a multi-tiered cake — only upside down. “There’s a lot of coordination, and your timing is everything,” Lane said. “It’s kind of a back-andforth dance between those two to bring all the walls down to elevation.” The excavation contractor would dig out about 5 feet of dirt, then the retention system contractor would follow behind and build parts of the retaining wall. This back and forth between the two contractors continued in 5-foot lifts until they hit the bottom, where the ballfield sits today, at about 50 feet below street level.

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The retention system was built with mesh fencing that was anchored in place by soil nails. The nails were about 50 feet long, and grout was injected into the drilled hole around the nail. Then the mesh and anchors were covered with 5 inches of shotcrete, or sprayed concrete. The retention system stretches 5,184 feet — just under 1 mile — around the perimeter of the ballpark’s footprint, said Brett Young, senior project engineer at Manhattan. The system also required more than 10,000 soil nails, he added. The first piece to go up after excavation was complete was a 14-inch-thick concrete wall that Manhattan built with its own crew.

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“That wall coming back up after you get to the bottom kicks off your structure, so you can’t do anything until you get that wall high enough that your structure doesn’t block you. It’s a race to the bottom, then a race back up to the top, with this finished wall in front of it,” said Griffin, who managed Manhattan’s concrete team. “We’re fortunate enough to have some very experienced 29

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carpenter foremen and labor foremen who had experience with this exact system. “From our team’s aspect, it was a huge push and a big success that we self-performed the concrete, and we were able to drive the schedule of the project early on to get other trades into the building sooner,” he said. This includes Capform, the concrete contractor responsible for forming and finishing the main concrete structure, according to Dunnam. Capform’s work included cast-in-place columns, sheer walls and slab-on-metal decks, and consisted of about 115,000 cubic yards of concrete, according to Dunnam.

“IT’S AMAZING HOW QUICKLY THE TIME HAS GONE BY. WE’RE REALLY GETTING EXCITED ABOUT SEEING THE FINISHED PROJECT AND WELCOMING OUR FANS THIS SEASON.” – R O B M AT W I C K , E X E C U T I V E V I C E P R E S I D E N T, T E X A S R A N G E R S

“We were there from the get-go when they were starting out with the piers all the way until they were topping out the steel structure,” said Jose Avila, project manager at Capform. “As things were getting turned over by the steel guys, we were pouring concrete on top of their steel. It was going hand in hand with the main structure, the concrete and the steel.” Crews ran into a bit of trouble when they tried to set anchor bolts — 4 feet long and 3 inches in diameter — to attach the structural steel to concrete that was heavily congested with rebar. “There was so much rebar in these pan decks that our first main concourse pour actually took 1,500 man hours to put the anchor bolts in for the steel, and that was only about 20,000 square feet,” Young said. “It was an outrageous number of manhours for that.” Manhattan went to Walter P Moore, the project’s structural engineer, for help. Walter P Moore was able to use 3D modeling to find solutions for setting the anchor bolts amid the reinforcing steel. 30

Cooperation among the various trades and Manhattan’s all-hands-on-concrete-deck approach are what make a project like Globe Life Field possible. “It required a buy-in from a lot of people to actually get the work done on time. It was just a joint team effort between Manhattan and all of our subcontractors,” Young said. “Being a part of this project, many of us get to put another feather in our cap,” Avila said. “We look back with this thing completed and think, ‘This is one, for sure, for the books.’ To be able to do that with Manhattan and the other team members that were associated with this project, it’s rewarding.”

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t the conclusion of the Texas Rangers’ 2019 season, home plate was dug up at Globe Life Park, which had been the home of the Rangers since 1994, and then ceremoniously placed in the Rangers’ new ballpark, Globe Life Field. That home plate has seen more than 2,000 regular season games in front of thousands of Rangers fans, and its journey from one ballpark to the other demonstrates the importance of honoring a legacy and continuing traditions, even when they continue in a new place. That nod to the past can also be felt in some of the architectural features at Globe Life Field, most notably the brick arches that run along the ballpark’s north façade. These arches are reminiscent of the exterior of Globe Life Park, which consists almost entirely of brick arches that face outward from the ballpark. “Brick itself can lend a feeling of history to an otherwise modern structure, as masonry is a time-tested building profession,” said Bill Van Meter, project manager at DMG Masonry. “Even before there was steel, there was a guy back in cave days who put one rock on top of two rocks to create a wall. I live that. It’s what we do,” Van Meter said. Of course, brick masonry has come a long way since cavepeople roamed the earth, and the arches at Globe Life Field are a testament to the potential of masonry. Unlike the Rangers’ old ballpark, the 18 arches at Globe Life Field are built so that the openings line up and create a tunnel effect. DMG Masonry designed, built and erected the brick arches, which also included granite and limestone at the bottom of the columns supporting the arches. Both the main concourse and the upper concourse thread through the 100-foot-tall archways. “They’re all lined up over your head, when you’re walking down the upper concourse on the north track,” Van Meter said. “It’s a stunning feature.” At the Rangers’ old home, the brick arches were an exterior feature, but the arches at Globe Life Field are central to the ballpark’s design, both inside and outside, and intersect the 1,000-foot-long glass curtain wall on the north façade. Even right beside a sleek, modern glass curtain wall, brick archways, which have been around for centuries, acknowledge a history. Certainly, Rangers fans will notice the connection and the continuity from the team’s old stadium. Despite being in a brand-new ballpark, Rangers fans will feel like they’re home at Globe Life Field. “That’s the cool part to me,” said Andy Patteson, senior superintendent at Manhattan Construction. “They’re wanting to incorporate some of the old 34

ballpark features into the new ballpark and trying to carry on a tradition. “I’m out here day in and day out watching it go up, and I bring in a fresh set of eyes and show them, and they’re wowed by it,” Patteson said.

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To create that look, the structural steel columns were erected first, followed by precast panels. Getting the precast panels into place was difficult, Van Meter said. Each arch consists of about 42 pieces that weigh between 800 and 1,200 pounds, he noted. But there was nothing to work from except the steel structural. DMG Masonry had to figure out how to build the arches using the precast panels and how to access the hardto-reach areas in order to lay roughly 650,000 bricks. “The floor of the upper concourse is not designed for the weight of a forklift that was capable of reaching that high,” Van Meter said. “I had to come up with a way that we could do it off of scaffolding that made it quite a bit more challenging and more labor-intensive.” Even though the process would take more time, the masons were at the mercy of the other trades to finish their work before they could start the hand-laid brick on the arches. “Everything had to be finished before we could get in there to do the hand-laid brick on the steel columns. It was all framed — stud framing — with sheathing and water barrier, and you had to have all your water

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barrier intact and complete before we could start,” Van Meter recalled. “We’re the last of the process.” DMG Masonry was also on-site in the earlier stages of construction, building some lower-level parts of the ballpark that most fans will never see. Using about 533,000 concrete masonry units (CMUs) reinforced with rebar and grout, DMG Masonry worked with Manhattan and other subcontractors, including plumbers and electricians, to build elevator shafts and mechanical areas with piping, chillers and other equipment, Van Meter explained.

“WHEN YOU ENTER FROM THE NORTH, WALKING BENEATH THE HUGE BRICK ARCHES, IT’S AN ICONIC EXPERIENCE BECAUSE YOU HAVE SUCH A HEIGHTENED SENSE OF ARRIVAL.” – B R YA N T R U B E Y, P R I N C I PA L A N D E X E C U T I V E V I C E P R E S I D E N T, H K S

“We had to work hand in hand with everyone,” he said. That cooperative effort is precisely what made the Globe Life Field project a success despite its engineering challenges. That level of cooperation comes from having a good team, a team Manhattan carefully selected based on experience and trust. “As subs, we know that Manhattan has got a track record with the kinds of projects they do, and they will get it done. They’re going to do everything they can to help, but every day’s a challenge. It’s a challenge that I look forward to, that we all look forward to. Even as challenging as it is, I enjoy working with Manhattan — or we wouldn’t do it,” Van Meter laughed. DMG Masonry has been working with Manhattan for Van Meter’s entire career, which spans almost 30 years,

and in that time Van Meter has come to appreciate Manhattan’s professionalism. Working together, Manhattan, DMG Masonry and the rest of Manhattan’s subcontractors have accomplished some impressive architectural feats. Among them are Globe Life Field’s 100-foot-tall brick archways with a design that harkens back to the history of Rangers baseball. The arches are an iconic feature that’s sure to be appreciated by Rangers fans in Arlington and everywhere. “When you pull up, what you’ll notice are those arches — those 18 brick arches in a row,” Van Meter said. “When you watch a baseball game on TV when they hit a home run, you’re going to see my arches in that shot because that’s [where] they’re hitting the ball.” 35

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The roof of Globe Life Field is 5.5 acres — or 240,836 square feet — and it rolls all at once. It’s the largest single-panel operable roof in the world, and its construction required 19,000 tons of structural steel, a top-notch construction team and the world’s largest American-made conventional crawler crane to put it all together. Other major sports stadiums have movable roofs, but many have multiple panels. Globe Life Field has only one. “The one panel operable roof structure has a continuous seal system around the perimeter. The bulb seal on the east and west are under compression while the flap seal on the north and south allow for movement in the structure,” said Telissa Hubbard, assistant project manager at Manhattan Construction. “The roof seal is a critical part of a building with this design.” When the roof is closed, the outdoor elements are kept at bay by a white rubber membrane on the north and south sloped planes, and the flat center is covered with clear panels made of ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene). Donald Veitenheimer, structural superintendent at Manhattan Construction, described ETFE as resembling a moon bounce, two pieces of plastic with air blown in between. “It has this new aspect called intelligent shading,” added Grant Phifer, senior project engineer at Manhattan Construction. “When the pillows blow up, they get air sent through them, and the foil inside separates to create a gap. If you’re looking directly underneath, it blocks the sunlight, so sunlight comes in only at a certain angle.” The roof structure consists of five huge pairs of steel trusses and tie-in steel between each truss, and the roof can open in about 12 to 15 minutes so Texas Rangers fans can enjoy the ballgame under the shining springtime sun.

“The operable roof consists of 10 trusses, which were erected in pairs and are supported by the north and south rails. The roof actually rolls on a rail similar to a railroad track,” Hubbard explained. “Once the system is complete, 10 motors will operate the roof.” Under all the innovative roofing materials and powerful mechanization, there is steel — lots and lots of steel. In all, the roof steel weighs about 19,000 tons, Phifer said. That’s about 38 million pounds. The steel was furnished and fabricated by W&W/AFCO Steel and erected by W&W Steel Erectors. The structural steel was brought in and assembled on-site in the stadium bowl. Each of the roof ’s 33 steel truss sections were erected in three parts: the north section, the middle section and the south section. After one truss was completely erected, it was slid down the rail to the west so the next truss could be set. Once the first and second trusses were completely erected, they were tied together with more steel. Moving this much steel required many work hours and enormous equipment. “We had up to 11 cranes on-site at a given time,” said Charles Dougherty, president of W&W Steel Erectors. “The main heavy-lift crane that we used to erect the roof truss assemblies was a Manitowoc 31000 heavy-lift crane, and it is the largest crawler crane manufactured in the United States.” The Manitowoc 31000 was positioned in the stadium bowl so crews could assemble and

“IT IS A MONUMENTAL SIGHT TO SEE THIS MASSIVE ROOF STRUCTURE ROLLING TO THE WEST 2,745 FEET ON 120 STEEL WHEELS TO REVEAL THE DIAMOND BELOW. IT WILL BE SPECTACULAR FOR THE FANS. THEY WILL ENJOY BEAUTIFUL SKIES IN THE SPRING AND AIR-COOLED GAMES IN THE HOT TEXAS SUMMERS. IT WILL ALWAYS BE A GREAT DAY AT THE PARK.” – G R E G M C C L U R E , M A N H AT TA N CONSTRUCTION, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT

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erect all three pieces of each truss one after the other, Phifer said. “Once we got the north end ready to pick, we would lift it off the ground, set it and connect it to the bogies on the north, and then they would sit on a shoring tower. We had two shoring towers in the middle of that span so it could support itself with just one end, the north end, of the truss,” Phifer explained. “Then we would erect the middle piece and then the south piece. Once it was on the shoring towers and connected at both ends, the shoring towers would drop it until the truss would be able to support itself.” As the structural steel was going up, time and space were two of the biggest challenges. To keep up with the tight schedule, crews had to pick and set the trusses quickly, all while maneuvering around a stadium bowl full of steel beams, cranes and workers from various trades. 40

MANITOWOC 31,000 CRANE 400 feet – The crane’s maximum height 3 weeks – Time to assemble the crane 3,000 tons – The weight of the crane 140 truckloads – The amount of freight to deliver the crane for assembly 5 million pounds – The weight the crane can lift

“Manhattan did a very good job coordinating the construction of the arena’s foundations, the bowl structure and the roof structure. At many times during the construction of the project, all three of the areas were being built simultaneously in different phases,” Dougherty recalled. “Manhattan developed a very good management plan to enable the project schedule to be completed on time.” The Manitowoc 31000 crane was also helpful in handling the time crunch and the limited space. “It definitely took up a big footprint, but it also made picks that would have required two cranes to make, or we wouldn’t have been able to put it up in quite as big of pieces,” Veitenheimer stated. “Another crane is not capable of moving the way that crane was. With this crane, we were actually able to lift the truss and crawl while we had that hanging from the crane to get in a better position to set it.”

“THE RETRACTABLE PANEL HAS ETFE INTEGRATED INTO IT, SO FROM CERTAIN ANGLES IT WILL ALLOW SUNLIGHT IN AND ILLUMINATE THE FIELD AND THE STADIUM. FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES IT WILL ACTUALLY BLOCK THE SUN, SO THE SUNLIGHT WON’T GET INTO THE PLAYERS’ EYES.” –J E F F J A N S I N G , P R I N C I PA L AT WA LT E R P M O O R E

The biggest pick made by the Manitowoc 31000 at Globe Life Field was over 1.4 million pounds, Veitenheimer said. That’s like lifting every Major League Baseball player on the active roster at once — times 10. The Manitowoc 31000 used at Globe Life Field is one of only two in the world, the other being in South Korea. The crane came from Atlanta, where it worked on Mercedes-Benz Stadium, to Arlington to work on its second project ever. It took about 140 freight truckloads to bring each piece of the crane to Arlington, and the crane took about three weeks to fully assemble in the bowl, Hubbard noted. “The crane is not used very often, as you can imagine. These type of projects aren’t around all the time,” she said. In the end, Manhattan Construction and the rest of the building team at Globe Life Field worked thousands of work hours, lifted and set millions of pounds of steel, and made countless decisions about how to make it all fit in the bowl and in the short schedule. After all that effort, they have one thing to show for it. Fortunately, that one thing is a big thing — a state-of-the-art ballpark with a 5.5-acre, single-panel rolling roof — the largest of its kind in the world. 41

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A calm crowd is not why we go to baseball games. People who want peace and quiet can stay home with their big screens — you’re here for the roar of 40,000-plus fans screaming and cheering as they urge the Texas Rangers on to victory. But just because you’re not at home doesn’t mean you can’t be comfortable. 40,000-plus frenetic fans will create a fair amount of energy to be contained, so that’s why Manhattan Construction has brought the latest hightech mechanical systems to one of the biggest construction projects in sports. The sheer scale of the HVAC systems needed for a project like this is enormous, and the technology needed to coordinate it all smoothly and efficiently is cutting-edge. Designing and installing mechanical systems for a sports arena is very different from doing so on a standard commercial construction project. And designing and installing mechanical systems in a sports arena the size of the new Globe Life Field is very much its own ballgame. Matt Johnson is a senior project manager at TD Industries (TD), a specialty contractor hired to install and help partially design the mechanical systems at the stadium. TD specializes in HVAC and plumbing, and it’s a veteran of the field, having worked previously on the AT&T Stadium in Arlington (the Cowboys), State Farm Stadium in Phoenix (the Cardinals), Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta (the Falcons) and the Rangers’ original Globe Life Park in the ‘90s. According to Johnson, it’s the combination of scale and speed that makes a project like this stand out. “Essentially we had just 18 months to build 1.8 million square feet,” he said. “There’s 1.9 million pounds of sheet metal inside the Rangers Stadium, and all that has to be installed in 18 months.” From coordination and logistics, to technical challenges, to pure work hours, the challenges of such a project can be as enormous as the end result itself. At peak construction, installing the HVAC systems involved 376 people working 60-hour weeks. Johnson also singled out the challenge of installing HVAC components in a structure with a retractable dome, especially one like this — 240,000 square feet that must be capable of creating a perfectly climate-controlled environment at a 46

moment’s notice. Ductwork couldn’t be installed in the dome itself, because the dome needs to move. To circumvent the problem, TD created a membrane of structural steel modules that the ducts would hang from.

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Another challenge brought on by the dome was working over such a vast, empty space. “When you’ve got 104-inch ductwork, you can essentially drive a Volkswagen Beetle through it,” he said. “And when it’s 230 feet above the playing surface, how do you get that in, how do you get that ductwork up onto a platform or in the structural steel, and how do you install that?” The answer was through the use of a quick deck: “[A quick deck is] a scaffold system that hangs off of the structural steel. It’s a movable platform … As that duct is being installed from south to north or north to south, that platform can then be moved as you work down, so you’re really never coming down off of the platform … It’s really like you’re standing on the ground, working [on] this duct 230 feet in the air.” To tackle issues of efficiency, an ever-present danger in projects with such a short timeline, Manhattan Construction and TD coordinated the space using BIM, building information modeling. BIM is the use of technology to create digital models for a construction project. Through its virtual design construction software, TD is able to create a full, 3D model of the stadium. “Then we can turn that over to our construction team,” Johnson said, “and they can go install that in the field, whether it’s through the 3D model, or actual drawings that the guys can pull up on their iPads.” In addition to having made use of the latest and best technology for an efficient and lightning-fast construction, there are also a number of features that the finished stadium will employ to keep the mechanical systems running at top capacity. The stadium contains two 25,000-gallon chilled water

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storage tanks so that in the event of a power outage or failure the stadium’s system can continue to keep the venue cool. The mechanical systems also have the equivalent of a brain and nervous system to keep the entire facility running at its most efficient. Using utiliVisor’s data monitoring service, TD can watch mechanical system trends in the building, and send alerts when the systems aren’t being used optimally — if too many chillers are running or are running faster than necessary. That, along with a building automation system with graphical displays, allows the

venue to save on energy usage and prevent wear on the system. Bringing the best, in terms of fan experience and stadium quality, are core company principles for Manhattan Construction and TD, and the mechanical systems present in the new Globe Life Field are evidence of that. Millions of pounds of ductwork, a high-tech HVAC system, tens of thousands of gallons in millions of feet of piping: It all adds up to keep those 40,000-plus shouting fans having the best experience possible, which is undeniably the coolest game in Texas. 47

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Playing surfaces can impact how a game is played, which is why die-hard baseball fans and players have strong opinions about turf and natural grass. At the outset of Globe Life Field’s design, the Texas Rangers organization envisioned a natural grass field, but all options were on the table with one goal in mind — to select the best playing surface in Major League Baseball. It became clear that keeping grass alive in the coolest retractable-roof ballpark in Texas would prove difficult and result in an inconsistent playing surface. Enter solid, convincing proof of a new, high-tech turf that would provide better conditions and safety for the players. This new, natural-looking and -feeling synthetic surface provides a more consistent, higher-quality field for the players. This is nothing like the turf of yesteryear. Years ago, Paragon and Shaw Sports Turf worked together to benchmark high-end, natural grass fields. Through various testing methods, they evaluated the playing surfaces at Major League stadiums for baseball and professional fields for soccer and football. They focused on how the high-end grass fields affected performance, how balls and athletes interacted, and how sports are played on a high-end, natural grass surface. The goal was “to identify the characteristics that determined how athletes and the ball interact with a highend, natural grass surface,” William Chaffe, president of Paragon Sports Constructors, said. “Every sport is different, of course, so the ball and athletes interact differently on the playing surface in each sport.” Armed with this information, Shaw Sports Turf developed turf systems that mimic the best natural grass surfaces. “Shaw’s hybrid turf system uses different types of yarn, or blades of grass, to create the synthetic grass,” Chaffe said. “They’ve tuned infill content and makeup to create a system that really mimics, in a very real way, great natural grass at the MLB level.” What is the key to this natural-feeling synthetic turf at Globe Life Field? There are several, but Chaffe credits one in particular. 49

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“The uniqueness of it is in the fiber — the fiber shape, the fiber composition and the makeup of the actual fabric of the turf,” Chaffe said. Telissa Hubbard, assistant project manager at Manhattan Construction, agreed. “The strands are a blended fiber,” she said. “Several colors are blended together for a natural look. Overall, the turf will look like natural sod and you will be able to see a mix of the lighter and darker color pigments.”

“THE PAD IS DESIGNED INTEGRAL WITH THE TURF AND INFILL TO CREATE A SYSTEM THAT, IN SPITE OF THE CONCRETE SUBFLOOR, WILL FEEL VERY MUCH LIKE NATURAL GRASS.” – W I L L I A M C H A F F E , P R E S I D E N T O F PA R A G O N SPORTS CONSTRUCTORS

Chaffe also credits a second key to the performance of the synthetic grass: the infill. This turf ’s infill “is a natural infill mixed with sand,” Chaffe said, “which has a consistency very much like dirt … It looks, it feels, it smells, and it plays very much like natural grass.” In traditional turf systems, “the infill materials were nonorganic compounds, such as foam and other lightweight materials,” Hubbard said. “This turf system is 90 percent organic infill, which is a mixture of coconut [and] other nuts.” The fibers and infill have an important impact on the game. “The organic compound provides a more realistic feel to the turf,” Hubbard said, “so as the players are running and interact with the field, they are on a surface that is familiar.” Similar synthetic turf was installed at the Arizona Diamondbacks’ stadium last year, with positive reviews. “Shaw continues to … refine their infill ratios and contents to where they can fine-tune these fields to play fast, slow — however the players really want it to play,” Chaffe said, explaining that they can adjust the turf to the point of having different parts of the field play in different ways. For synthetic turf of this caliber, moisture content is important. “There is an optimal moisture 50

content in the system, which allows it to play at the highest level of performance,” Chaffe said. “That moisture will need to be maintained on this field. We have systems and plans in place to be able to add and maintain that moisture [at] a very specific level, which will make that playability as close to natural grass as it can be.” In the case of Globe Life Field, “This is a turf system on top of a concrete subfloor. It has a pad … to assist with impact and drainage,” Chaffe said. “The pad is designed integral with the turf and infill to create a system that, in spite of the concrete subfloor, will feel very much like natural grass.”

After the Manhattan Construction team built Globe Life Field’s concrete subfloor base for the synthetic turf, Paragon Sports Constructors began installing the turf and clay areas, the batting cages and the workout areas. The concrete subsurface is the base of the turf system. Manhattan’s team worked hard to ensure the subsurface is very flat for the turf system. “The concrete has to be flat and level but still have a way to drain water from the slab so moisture does not affect the performance of the turf,” Hubbard said. The clay portions of the field may not receive the same attention, but they are still crucial to the game. First, Paragon’s team built up the clay areas so that most of the heavy work was completed before installing the roof. To get the field game ready, finishing touches were performed on the clay and finally on the turf. Constructing each part of the field was different, requiring the team to work back and forth between the turf and the clay. “We had to protect each area as we worked our way around the field,” Chaffe said. In the end, “you’ll have a very, very specific clay mix — base paths and warning track — that will be dirt,” Chaffe said. “Those areas will be built over a sub-base that is identical to any Major League park. The mound will be the same way. It’ll all be natural clay, much like any player would experience on any Major League field. The turf system is really the only part of this field that’s going to be synthetic.”

MAINTAINING GLOBE LIFE FIELD TURF FOR YEARS TO COME While synthetic turf doesn’t require mowing and fertilizing, the system at Globe Life Field will require sweeping, grooming and significant moisture maintenance. Maintaining the field’s moisture is important and can tailor the speed of play. “The maintenance of this field for the Rangers is still going to be fairly intense,” Chaffe said. “It’s just going to be different than a natural grass field … We plan on working closely with the organization to ensure that the field is well-maintained.” “Water management is key for optimal turf performance,” Hubbard said. “Trench drains around the slab reduce any unwanted water under the turf.”

What sports fans may not realize is that synthetic turf must be tailored to the climate of a specific region. For example, a client in Florida and a client in Arizona require two different systems — “you’ve got a hot, humid climate in Miami, and a hot, dry climate in Arizona,” Chaffe said. “Both of those environments, of course, are different than north Texas … Each one of these systems has to be tuned to the environment. The overall composition is pretty similar, but each of these systems has to be tuned to their specific environment.” For Paragon, the biggest challenge was being one of the last teams to work on their portion of Globe Life Field. “The roof and everything overhead had to be done by the time we got in there,” Chaffe said. “They’ve got a very, very demanding schedule, and Manhattan has done an unbelievable job of mapping out a strategy and executing that strategy on time.” But this challenge is also one of the team’s greatest successes: “putting all the pieces in right, in the right spot, at the right time.” 51

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hen it comes to construction, the big stuff usually makes the headlines: a five-acre operable roof, a 1,000-foot-long glass curtain wall, nearly 650,000 bricks hand-laid to make 100-foottall arches and steel trusses erected with the world’s largest crawler crane. But it’s the little things that take the fan experience to the next level. It’s the whole package — the sights and sounds, and the feeling of everything coming together — that will delight Texas Rangers fans and usher in a new era of America’s favorite pastime at Globe Life Field. Wherever fans are in the ballpark, they won’t miss a second of the action on the field.

engagement opportunities to create a wow factor in the new stadium.”

“I think it will be very exciting for them,” said David Adams, project manager at Manhattan Construction. “One thing that’s good too is they are actually a little bit closer to the field in the new ballpark than they were in the old ballpark.”

“The right field board is hung from the roof truss in right field, so it’s going to feel very close to the fans, creating a very impressive experience,” he said. “There are some unique features with the displays in this project that will make it very fan-friendly and very powerful.”

Whether fans are in the bottom row or the top row, they are sure to appreciate the large-scale LED video displays and the high-quality stereo system that keep them involved in the game, enhancing the experience from the opening pitch to the bottom of the ninth inning. “The square footage of the video boards and ribbon displays in the new ballpark will be considerably larger than the old park,” said Dan Fjeldheim, who works in large sports venues sales for Daktronics. “There are numerous fan 54

In addition to the ribbon display boards that wrap around the seating bowl, Daktronics installed three video boards that hang in the ballpark. The smallest screen is in center field and will be the out of town scoreboard. The secondary video board, above left field, is 40 feet tall and 111 feet wide, roughly the same size as the primary board at the Rangers’ former home. The crown jewel main video display in right field of the new ballpark measures 58 feet tall and 150 feet wide, Fjeldheim noted.

Daktronics installed an IPTV (or internet protocol television) system, meaning content for the screens throughout the ballpark will be delivered through an internet connection and content can be changed more easily in real time, Fjeldheim said. In all, Globe Life Field boasts more than 1,450 screens in its concourses, suites, clubs and concession areas, and all screens will be controlled with Daktronics’ Show Control content management system, he added.

Of course, having all of those screens is only worthwhile if they show something worth seeing. The content creation magic happens in the video production room on the broadcast level of Globe Life Field, almost directly behind home plate. “It will be something that they haven’t seen across the street in the old building. It’s the latest technology,” said Tom Sullivan, managing engineer at Diversified, a systems and media technology integration company. “We are doing high-dynamic range video, so it’s not just regular video. HDR makes the colors more vivid. It will be a noticeable upgrade from the technology they are used to in the old building.” Diversified also installed a video system, including six broadcast cameras, seven point-ofview cameras and 12 channels of slow-motion video replay, based on the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers’ ST 2110 standards, Sullivan said. “2110 is the new IP-based broadcast video standard. As opposed to running video over coax, it’s now run over IP multicasts,” he explained, adding that Globe Life Field is one of the first sports venues to use this technology.

roughly 10 miles of audio cable in the stadium, Sanderson noted.

“THE PUBLIC IS ALWAYS THE FINAL JUDGE. WE CAN THINK WE’RE DOING A REALLY GREAT JOB, BUT THE FANS ARE WHO WE’RE ULTIMATELY ALL LOOKING FOR. THEY’RE THE ONES WE’RE REALLY DESIGNING FOR.” – B R YA N T R U B E Y, P R I N C I PA L AND EXECUTIVE VICE P R E S I D E N T, H K S

Whether connecting communications cables or building a billion-dollar ballpark, it’s important not to get your wires crossed. That’s why Manhattan Construction keeps the lines of communication open for everyone working on-site. “They’ve been very accommodating and have done everything they can do to help us get our portion of the project up and running,” Sullivan echoed. From the largest steel beam to the smallest screen or speaker, Manhattan Construction knows every piece of the project is necessary to create an elevated experience for the Texas Rangers and their fans. “It’s crazy to think how many manhours are involved to pull something like this off, tens of thousands of hours just for our little part of the scope of the work,” Sanderson said. “It’s always humbling to me to step back and say ‘wow’ at the end. It got done. Sometimes you’re in the middle of it and wondering how, and it always gets done. It’s quite the feat.”

Like the video displays that appear all around Globe Life Field, pieces of the ballpark’s sound systems are everywhere. There are separate sound systems for the club spaces; the back-of-house areas, like concourses, restrooms, entry points and ramps; and the seating bowl, said Jeff Sanderson, senior systems engineer for sports and live events at Diversified. “This system is a very unique system. It’s one of the few that I know of to be operated in true stereo in the stadium throughout the whole bowl,” Sanderson said. “What we do in working with the sound designer is try to implement a system that is as high-fidelity as possible — to elevate the experience of the end user, even at a baseball game. It’s really getting to a point where you can’t just put in a speaker and have a guy talk and make an announcement. It’s got to do way more, and these systems do,” he continued. “They’re high-powered sound systems so they can get to the levels they need to get to and provide the coverage each person needs to be able to hear the announcements, hear the music, have fun and enjoy the game.” To support the sound systems, there are more than 2,000 speakers, over 200 amplifiers and 55

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When fans enjoy America’s favorite pastime at Globe Life Field, it will be in luxury. Views from one side of the park to the other, state-of-the-art seating and 20 different concessions options guarantee new discoveries each game.

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n spectator sports, having a good view of the game is a must. But when Manhattan Construction, HKS and the rest of the team partnered to build Globe Life Field, they didn’t stop there. Instead, they created a ballpark that gives fans upclose and interesting vantage points to watch the game but also spectacular views, both inside and outside of the ballpark. Fans walking along the main concourse can enjoy unobstructed views of the ballfield and not miss a moment of game time action but also look outside and be greeted with views of Arlington sports staples, including the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium, the Texas Live! entertainment district and Globe Life Park, the former home of the Texas Rangers. Transparent building materials appear all around Globe Life Field to create the ballpark’s wide-open views, but these materials also let in natural light to create a warm, welcoming atmosphere whether the retractable roof is open or closed. In addition to panels of ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene), a translucent polymer sheeting, in the roof and other translucent panels around the ballpark, glass can be found on all four sides of the ballpark. Exterior glass has the effect of blurring the line between inside and outside, drawing the attention of passersby into the ballpark and keeping Rangers fans connected to the life teeming outside the stadium and the beauty of the great outdoors. Fans enter the ballpark through glass entrances, and glass overhead doors open to allow access in and out of the west plaza, explained Andy Patteson, senior superintendent at Manhattan Construction. But Patteson said the most unique glass feature is Globe Life Field’s 1,000-foot-long north façade, a glass curtain wall that connects 18 massive brick arches. The wall is made of 60-foot-wide by 80-foot-tall glass bays lining the arch corridor and creating an interesting design behind left field. “When you’re inside and walking along the arch corridor, everywhere you are, you can see out toward the existing ballpark,” Patteson said, adding that Texas Live! and AT&T Stadium are also visible. “There’s a lot of glass, I’ll tell you that.” Fans can also see the ballfield when walking through the arch corridor or around the upper and main concourses. HKS designed the ballpark to give Rangers fans great views no matter where they are in the stadium — whether they

“YOU IMMEDIATELY HAVE EXPANSIVE VIEWS INTO THE BALLFIELD, INTO THE BALLPARK, NOT JUST THE CONCOURSE. YOU CAN SEE ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE, ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE FIELD TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SEATING BOWL. SO YOU GET SEVERAL HUNDRED-FOOT PANORAMIC VIEWS OF THE BALLPARK.” – B R YA N T R U B E Y, H K S P R I N C I PA L

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are looking down to the field for a triple play or out the curtain wall to a sunny spring day. To create the north façade, Manhattan Construction enlisted the expertise of curtain wall and specialty glass contractor Haley-Greer Inc., which was responsible for the exterior glass, 27 ticket windows and 161 aluminum doors. “Haley-Greer is known for doing a lot of monumental projects throughout the state of Texas,” said Jason Wroblewski, executive vice president of Haley-Greer, which also partnered with Manhattan Construction and HKS to build Cowboys Stadium (now AT&T Stadium). “We’re fortunate to be a part of those projects, and especially with good partners like Manhattan Construction Company.” The glasswork done by Haley-Greer was completed in three phases. The first phase, which started in late 2018, consisted of the west and south sides of the ballpark and included the office building to house the Rangers staff. The second phase was on the east side of the ballpark. The final phase was the north façade — the curtain wall. “Always the challenge in our business is the engineering and the lead times with materials because everything we do is custom-fabricated curtain wall metal and glass. They’re specific sizes to the one-sixteenths of an inch. Those things take time,” Wroblewski said. “You can’t just go to the local hardware store to pick up the supplies we’re installing on these projects.” To create the curtain wall, Haley-Greer purchased glass from its glass supplier and had it shipped to another industry partner that manufactured, fabricated, assembled and glazed the curtain wall glass. The glass panels were then shipped to the Globe Life Field site and installed by Haley-Greer. “What really sets Globe Life Field apart from anything we’ve done is just the complexity of the job because most projects where we would install a curtain wall in Texas are office buildings. You can wrap a building pretty fast just working from floors. You go around from left to right, or counterclockwise, around the building and wrap the building from bottom to top,” Wroblewski explained. “This one is different just because these curtain walls are broken up by precast brick paneling. Every curtain wall elevation is different from the next one for the most part. That’s kind of what made it unique, and an engineering challenge and an installation challenge.”

Tying the glass curtain wall system into the brick arches, although a tedious process, required precision and a tight fit, Patteson noted. Despite the complexities and magnitude of the glasswork on Globe Life Field, Patteson said there were no real headaches, thanks in part to Haley-Greer. “They did a great job,” Patteson said. “With the amount of glass and the complexity of it, we knew they could handle a project like this.” This project is certainly one that fans of both Major League Baseball and sleek, modern architecture will be talking about for a while. Globe Life Field offers Rangers fans great views of the ballgame and the surrounding area, but the ballpark also shows fans a picture of the past with a feel of the future. Globe Life Field reminds fans where the Rangers

came from but also where they’re going. “Standing in the ballpark looking at the older ballpark might be the biggest attraction,” Patteson said. Fans can look back at the familiar former home of the Rangers, with all its history and memories, while standing inside a sleek, sparkling, state-ofthe-art structure that’s sure to see many more wins and big plays that will bring fans to their feet. “Glass just adds this level of sophistication to the building. What’s beautiful about this new ballpark compared to the old one is there’s a lot more glass,” Wroblewski said. “The amount of glass and architectural detail that was put into this stadium is top-notch. We’re in 2020 now, and this is a 2020 ballpark.”

“THERE’S NOTHING WORSE THAN HEARING THE ROAR OF THE CROWD AFTER YOU’VE LEFT YOUR SEAT … THE DESIGN OF GLOBE LIFE FIELD ... RETAINS THIS CONNECTION TO THE GAME ALONG THE MAIN CONCOURSE.” – G R E G W H I T T E M O R E , P R I N C I PA L AT H K S AND PROJECT MANAGER FOR THE DESIGN

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S W E E T S E AT S EVERY LEVEL BY ELIZABETH HERRERA LAUER

Seating can make or break a venue — it’s why people will drive out of their way to the movie theater with the comfy recliners and avoid the one with the ancient, stiff seats. Texas Rangers fans are in for a treat because there isn’t a bad seat in the house at Globe Life Field. The 40,000-plus seats are made by Camatic Seating, an Australian company founded in the 1960s that has a strong presence in athletic venues, theaters and churches. Manhattan Construction Project Manager Shane Griffin said the stadium seating leader’s product is unique because the seats snap onto an aluminum rail and can be removed individually, making it easy to transform a space for a different event, create a new aisle and complete repairs.

Manhattan Construction Assistant Project Manager Telissa Hubbard, who manages the seating and handrails, said there are five different types of seats, from general admission seating to padded suite chairs. Hubbard said the seats address the fans’ desire for more comfortable seating at the new stadium. The seats shape naturally to the body, and some of the general admission seats include a padded seat pan. “The suite seats are an executive chair with a high back that is plush and very comfortable,” Hubbard said. A lot of thought went into even the smallest details of the seats. “Early on in the project, most of my time was focused on the procurement of the material,” Hubbard said. “The process involved verifying the seat materials including colors, end panels, logos, seat-number placement and every little detail that you can think of.” 65

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At Globe Life Field, the seats are secured to precast risers, said Griffin. The lower bowl is all precast concrete by Gate Precast. Manhattan Construction started the concrete structure and foundations in February 2018, then started setting precast by June or July during a process that took about eight months. “It would take you much longer to do that in place than it would off-site,” Griffin said of opting for precast.

is left out so that the cranes can work from back to front. “These panels are 30 feet wide by 6 feet deep. And that’s all concrete that you’re lifting that’s 250 feet away, 250, 300 feet in the air,” Griffin said. “It’s a really heavy pick for the crane. If we did not leave that lower bowl out, then we wouldn’t have been able to set those heavy picks that were in the back. Leaving it out, we reduce the radius of the crane, and it increases our lifting capacity.”

“The precast process starts very early on so they can get the casting materials and everything done in the shop, so that after you get the structure poured, they’re right behind you to install the precast risers,” Griffin said.

After installation, the risers are protected with a traffic coating and a waterproofing membrane before seating is installed, Griffin said.

The precast risers are pre-tension, and Gate Precast comes in and welds them, then does patchwork where the lifting holds are. While the Camatic Seating system simplifies the process, a project of this magnitude with so many people involved comes with challenges. For example, the use of precast means having to consider increasing the radius of the crane for heavy picks, Griffin said. So the lower bowl 66

CAMATIC SEATING has 7 million seats globally that it has manufactured or installed across more than 7,500 projects.

It is a versatile seating system, said Hubbard. Brackets are drilled to the precast, then a beam is mounted to the bracket, and then the seats are attached to the beam. “If you need to make any adjustments, replace or rearrange chairs, additional infrastructure or changes to the supports are not required,” Hubbard said. “You can take the seat off a rail and swap one out without any damage to the finishes around you.”

The first seats were installed in October 2019, Hubbard said.

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Hubbard has a deep, personal connection to this project. Her grandfather, William Edison Springfield, was a professional baseball player, and her grandmother is always eager for updates on the Globe Life Field project. “I’m going to have so much joy seeing the project completed,” she said.

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But having it all said and done will be a proud achievement for Manhattan Construction and a delight for fans.

“Everyone will come away a much better builder because of it.”

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“There’s absolutely not a typical day,” Hubbard said. “A lot of materials and systems come together or interact so we have to stay in constant communication to make sure we’re on the same page.” That means taking a vision that looks pretty on a piece of paper, and reconciling that with real-world challenges to achieve the design intent, she said.

And for Griffin, who has worked on other stadium projects including a renovation of the previous Texas Rangers home, this experience is one that can never be re-created in a construction professional’s career.

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Globe Life Field features 47% more premium seating than Globe Life Park. The unique seating system can be added to, subtracted from or rearranged for baseball games, concerts or other events within mere minutes.

“WE HAVE INSTALLED APPROXIMATELY 8 MILES OF BEAM TO THE PRE-CAST RISERS TO SUPPORT THE SEATING. SIMILARLY WE HAVE DRILLED AND SET APPROXIMATELY 40,000 STAINLESS STEEL ANCHORS TO SUPPORT THE BEAM.”

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With the sheer quantity of people and tasks that require careful coordination, it has been an experience of a lifetime, said Griffin. The project is estimated to exceed 6 million work hours once it’s done, and that’s with the fast-track schedule Manhattan Construction is under.

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ny professional kitchen is an intricate ecosystem of wiring and water lines, of equipment that needs to stay at specific temperatures and layouts that conform to health code requirements. Now multiply that by an impressive array of dining options for 40,000-plus baseball fans, in 177 rooms with high-end equipment and creative décor themes, built within an ambitious construction timeframe. This ecosystem, which will include everything from tacos to barbecue to a wine bar, presented challenges during construction. Bill Walter, electrical project manager and food service manager on the project, noted that separating the food service areas from other areas of the venue was one of the first electrical tasks. “We try to have an individual panel that feeds specifically to a food service area,” Walter said, so if an adjacent corridor has any electrical problems, it won’t affect dining service. 70

He explained that different pieces of equipment require certain voltages and capacities. Layout and installation depended on where the structural steel was, Walter said, so one of the big challenges was determining what was going to connect below and what would connect above. “Once we tie in all of the health inspections, sometimes they get to redirect us anyway,” he added. Project Engineer Josh Tobolka was closely involved with the health inspections, working with a third-party health inspector. “We’ve got walk-in coolers that store wine and beer, and those have to be down to the operating temperature,” he said. “The coolers range from 36 degrees to 40 degrees. The walk-in freezers need to get down to 1 degree.” He added that the surfaces must be smooth and cleanable, equipment must be up and running, and the hot water needs to be operational.

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Timing was also a big factor the team needed to keep in mind, because some steps couldn’t be completed before others.

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“From a construction standpoint, we have to wait for some of the finishes, and in some of those high-end areas we have a lot more premium finishes,” Walter said, “so we have a lot more considerations and time constraints we have to deal with.” Some of those finishes traveled from overseas to get to the job site. “We had to order these different tiles and finishes that are going in these concessions and suites months before they needed to be installed,” Tobolka said. As far as equipment, Walter listed the three- and four-compartment sinks and individual handwashing sinks, which are typical of most kitchens, plus unique features like heated countertops. “On the bar top, they’ll have heating plates or cold plates built into the counter. You hardly notice them — no one is burning their hands on it — but it’s keeping the food warm,” Walter said.

Then there are the showstopping pieces of equipment, like ice cream makers, pizza ovens that resemble brick ovens, big wood-fired smokers for barbecue, and “tons of margarita machines,” Tobolka said. “My favorite aspect of the food and beverage scope of this project is seeing the bulk coolers, keg coolers, and the various pizza ovens and smoker ovens throughout the kitchen commissary being installed,” Senior Project Engineer Collin Lane said. “I am excited to see the Rangers organization and fans getting such a topnotch [food and beverage] facility that they will be able to enjoy for decades to come.” While part of the Manhattan team focused on the equipment, Project Manager Shane Griffin worked with everything around the equipment to get the space ready for food service, whether that was getting walls up, laying tile or installing countertops. He described how elevated every aspect of the interiors was, going beyond the standard ballpark décor of subway tile and steel.

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Particularly in the premium spaces, “the kitchens and concessions, they don’t just have stainless steel countertops and epoxy flooring,” Griffin said. “They have granite countertops and tile walls, ornamental metal and custom glass. “As you walk down to the lower concourse on one side you have the suite entrances, which have reclaimed lumber on the front of them that really stands out,” Griffin said. “Then you have tile walls on both sides, and then you have about 20 different concessions, and they’re all themed differently.” The keg bar, for example, has half kegs on the wall with TVs; the chicken-centric restaurant has chicken wire details reminiscent of a coop; and the barbecue restaurant has a rustic theme. In keeping with the stadium’s clear views, the taco place has glass surrounding the area where tortillas are made.

“I AM EXCITED TO SEE THE RANGERS ORGANIZATION AND FANS GETTING SUCH A TOP-NOTCH [FOOD AND BEVERAGE] FACILITY THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO ENJOY FOR DECADES TO COME.” – COLLIN LANE, SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER

“Aesthetically, I think it looks incredible,” Tobolka said. For him, the light fixtures are a design highlight, with some resembling helmets or beer taps, and some using a red stitching design like a baseball. Walter was eager to hear feedback to see if his instincts were right about which spaces would be the biggest hit with fans, and Lane was proud of the job overall, and what it would mean to Rangers fans. “Being involved on this project means a lot to me, and I really like the great memories and moments that it brings on a daily basis,” Lane said. “Whether it is achieving the major milestones of completion, working around the largest U.S.-made conventional crawler crane in North America to erect the roof structure, or enjoying watching the fans during the sneak peeks and first events, it is very rewarding all around.”

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What's on the Texas Rangers' HOME FIELD PLATE?

SWEET SEATS AT EVERY LEVEL

THE COOLEST GAME IN TEXAS

COLOSSAL BRICK ARCHWAYS: Iconic Views From Inside and Out

FROM DUGOUT TO DIAMOND

BASES LOADED: Meet the Building Team

DEAR READERS

EVERY RUN IS UP-CLOSE with Fiber Optics and Video Production

POWER HITTER: Rangers’ Rolling Roof

WIDE OPEN VIEWS for Every Inning

FROM INFIELD TO OUTFIELD Synthetic Grass Is a Solid Hit

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