Glendale Arena
City: Glendale
State: AZ
Owner: Arena Development, LLC
General Contractor: Perini Building Company
Project Description:
The Glendale Hockey Arena had one of the tightest schedules for a sports stadium constructed in the United States, and critical to the fasttrack schedule was the installation of the design-build permanent soil nail wall. By using permanent soil nailing around the entire perimeter of the site, the stadium’s structural system did not need to resist large horizontal earth loads. This allowed for larger open spans within the arena. Schnabel Foundation Company designed and built the permanent wall, with over 73,000 sf of shotcrete wall face, and 60,000 lf of soil nails; all done in eight weeks.
