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Kansas City, MO 64108
United States
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Darren
Hartman
Managing Principal & Construction Engineering Practice Leader
Kansas City
+1.816.412.1864
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Hofmeister
Managing Principal & Structural Engineering Practice Co-Leader
Kansas City
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Climate Pledge Arena From world’s fair pavilion to world-class arena – we provided structural and construction engineering to transform a historic venue into a first-class sports and event facility.
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Sherman Minton Bridge What if we could have investigated Minnesota’s I-35 Bridge three months before it collapsed? With the Sherman Minton Bridge, we had that chance.Additional Projects
Kansas City News
Play Ball!
March 30, 2023
It’s spring and that means baseball is back! At ballparks everywhere ground crews are prepping the turf and chalking the baselines as coaches finalize their starting lineups.
KC Current Stadium Breaks Ground
November 03, 2022
The first purpose-built venue for a professional female soccer team in North America broke ground last month in Missouri.
Structure Magazine: Bridging the Gap Between Engineering and Fabrication
August 10, 2022
When it comes to project delivery, out with the old way of doing things and in with the new can lead to greater schedule and cost efficiencies and reduced risk.
Metals In Construction: UBS Arena at Belmont Park
July 01, 2022
Challenged with COVID-19 rules and restrictions, a Populous and Thornton Tomasetti-led design team delivered an innovative steel superstructure with long span roof trusses, lateral load resisting braces in the elevator cores and perimeter and a large rigging capacity for concerts and sporting events.
Exchange Tops Out in Downtown Detroit
May 10, 2022
Exchange Detroit has given “raise the roof” a whole new meaning.
Crosscut: The Complex Histories of Seattle Sports Stadiums
January 04, 2022
Sports stadiums and arenas have long been the site of major civic battles in Seattle. But stadium construction can also salve old wounds and offer new promise.
UBS Arena Opens
November 24, 2021
A ribbon cutting on November 19 marked the grand opening of UBS Arena — the new home to National Hockey League’s New York Islanders — in Elmont, New York
Daily Journal of Commerce: Transforming Seattle’s historic KeyArena
October 29, 2021
"Designing and constructing a new steel-framed arena below a temporarily supported roof and around a temporary perimeter shoring was much like building a ship in a bottle."
Venues Now: Why an Iconic Roof Designed for the 1962 World’s Fair Tops the NHL’s Newest Arena
October 21, 2021
Seattle’s new Climate Pledge Arena is a unique blend of the historic and state-of-the-art.
Steel Institute of New York: Skating Toward a New State-of-the-Art UBS Arena
September 30, 2021
Challenged with COVID-19 rules and restrictions, a Populous- and Thornton Tomasetti-led design team delivered an innovative steel superstructure with long span roof trusses, lateral load resisting braces in the elevator cores and perimeter and a large rigging capacity for concerts, venues and sporting events.
Modern Steel Construction: Inside Job
April 06, 2021
While it may look familiar from the outside, step through the doors of Seattle, Washington’s Climate Pledge Arena and it’s an entirely new state-of-the-art sports and entertainment venue.
ENR: Hockey Arena Skates Ahead of Shutdowns
January 20, 2021
"The journey for the 19,000-seat UBS Arena, which broke ground in September 2019, was on a fast track when the project team faced a major obstacle—a nearly 50-day work stoppage from late March to late May last year under a COVID-19 pandemic lockdown."
Sports Business Journal: Power Players
November 19, 2020
Two Thornton Tomasetti MVPs, Darren Hartman and Bill Edwards, have been named to the Sports Business Journal's Power Players list.
ENR: Keeping Climate Pledge Arena's Landmark Is a 22,000-Ton Balancing Act
October 29, 2020
Transforming the 1960s-era Key Arena into the state-of-the-art Climate Pledge Arena, future home of the NHL’s newest franchise the Seattle Kraken, has been no simple task.
Roof Construction Underway at UBS Arena
August 25, 2020
At the same time the New York Islanders are making a 2020 Stanley Cup run, the roof is going up on their new home.
2019 Green Offices Update
July 27, 2020
In 2019, 87 employees – representing all but our smallest offices – served as local corporate responsibility advocates.
Construction Underway on University of Notre Dame’s McKenna Hall
June 17, 2020
The University of Notre Dame’s McKenna Hall is taking shape, with roof trusses now in place following a month of steel erection work on the Indiana campus.
Supporting the COVID-19 Response Effort
May 11, 2020
As communities around the world battle the coronavirus pandemic, our engineers, scientists and programmers are lending a hand.
ASCE: Designers Create More Health-Care Spaces
May 06, 2020
In addition to creating alternate care facilities to treat COVID-19 patients, capacity can be increased at hospitals themselves. Senior Vice President Michael Dowdall of our Forensics practice discusses Thornton Tomasetti’s work to convert regular patient rooms into airborne infection isolation rooms with the installation of high-efficiency particulate air-filtering systems.