Indoor Practice Facility
Renovation & Addition
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, Colorado
Rendering courtesy of Sink Combs Dethlefs
Date: 2010
Cost: $9,985,000
Area: 35,700 GSF
LEED® Gold Certified (pending)
In early 2009, SBEC was selected by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Sink Combs Dethlefs to provide mechanical design services for the 32,700 GSF addition to the Coors Event Center (CEC) and the renovation of an additional area of approximately 3,000 GSF within the CEC for the Women’s Basketball locker rooms and related student/athlete support spaces.
The new indoor basketball/volleyball practice facility will provide an
opportunity to upgrade the Coors Events Center (CEC) with improved
amenities, enhancing its flexibility for uses both within the athletics realm and outside it. The new facility will provided for greater
scheduling flexibility for campus and community events at CEC.
And operationally, the CEC will be enhanced significantly through the development of the dedicated practice spaces, additional storage, and the ability to renovate the very limited event level spaces to better serve event operations.
The CEC addition is being designed to house permanent basketball and volleyball athletics practice facilities and related student/athlete support facilities and consists of two new NCAA regulation size (50’ x 94’) basketball practice floors, to be shared by the men’s and women’s basketball programs and women’s volleyball program. Other spaces include a lobby/reception area, state-of-the-art locker rooms, coaches offices, sports medicine, strength and conditioning, circulation corridor attachment to the existing CEC, new general storage and loading / staging area for CEC and mechanical space.
