Projects: Barclays Center

Barclays Center

Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Thornton Tomasetti

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Thornton Tomasetti is providing structural design and Tekla BIM modeling services for the new Barclays Center, home of the soon to be relocated Nets NBA basketball team. The design-build project features 18,000 seats, over 80 suites and an ice floor for hockey and other events. The steel superstructure consists of two levels of concourses and two levels of suites.

Thornton Tomasetti has also provided Tekla models, connection samples and full connection designs on documents which have allowed us to produce models quickly in steel and store large quantities of information. The distinctive arched roof is supported by a pair of 350-foot-long tied arch trusses spanning the long direction of the arena. Designing and understanding these erection elements presented some structural challenges.

The new arena is the centerpiece of the much larger future Atlantic Yards development which occupies 22-acres and includes 16 buildings for residential use, office, retail, community facilities, parking and public access spaces. The project also includes plans for reconfiguring and improving the Vanderbilt rail yard and upgrading access to the Atlantic Terminal subway station. The arena is set in a busy urban setting near the Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street subway station and the Long Island Rail Road terminal in Brooklyn, one of the most transit-accessible locations in the New York City.

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