Citizens Bank Park Philadelphia Pennsylvania

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Citizens Bank ParkPhiladelphia Pennsylvania

• Presented by
• Kevan Brown Andrew Matias

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Presentation Outline

• Project development
• Project Engineering
• Project Funding
• Social and Political Issues
• Sources
• Questions?

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The Plan

• Background
• -Professional baseball has been
• Sharing a stadium with the local
• Professional football team since
• 1971 (Veterans Stadium)
• -1996 Bill passed to develop 4 new
• Stadiums for professional sports
• teams in P.A.
• -Search for the site lasted for 2
• Years!
• -Project given to EwingCole
• engineering firm
• -Project began Nov. 2001, park opened
• April 2004 in time for the 2004 season
• Design Goals
• -clear view of downtown area
• -open web structural steel system
• That supports the artistic elements
• of the stadium

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Project Engineering

• Field level is 23ft below street level which is
  also beneath the water table
• A system of sewer lines and draining pipes were
  of crucial importance to the design and current
  functionality of the stadium.
• Geotechnical Engineers were used to determine how
  much ground water needed to be removed to keep
  the construction site dry.
• A series of deep wells and drains keeps the water
  at bay.
• Also, a deep foundation system (comprised of
  steel H pipes) was required due to the upper
  layers of sediment being comprised of mainly sand
  and clay.

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More Project Engineering

• Concrete shear walls and piers were used beneath
  the lower levels of the buildings and the seating
  bowl to provide lateral resistance to wind,
  seismic forces, and earth pressure.
• The seating bowl itself is one of the most
  distinctive features. The concept features a
  series of straight seating sections, each angled
  toward home plate all around the field.
• The resulting geometry maximizes views of the
  infield
• from each of the 43,500 seats.

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How much did this project cost?
458 MILLION
50 of funding came from private institutions 50
of funding came from public financing Naming
rights bought by Citizens Bank
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Social Political Issues

• Parking/ access to transportation
• Taxes

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Sources

• http//www.ballparks.com/baseball/national/phibpk.
  htm
• HOME RUN. By Loos, Jared Patel, Pradeep. Civil
  Engineering (08857024), Jun2004, Vol. 74 Issue 6,
  p56-63 (ASCE)

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Questions???