Start date: June 9, 2003End date: January, 2007Size: 569,459 gross square feetProject cost: $140 millionProject funding: State Capital Dollars, Bond retired by student fees, faculty and staff membership fee, Department of Athletics, Donors
The amount of water contained within all five pools of the project is equivalent to 32,434,544 eight ounce glasses of water. If a person is to drink on average, eight, eight ounce glasses of water a day, it would take 4,054,318 days or 11,108 years to drink the amount of water in the pools.
If the individual wood strips that comprise the entire wood flooring on the project were laid end to end, they would extend from Columbus to Indianapolis.
The amount of steel used in the construction of the project weighs about 3,700 tons, which is equivalent to bench pressing a 250 pound loaded barbell, about 30,000 reps.
The new intramural athletic fields constructed at the RPAC facility consists of a special sand and soil mixture base. The amount of this special sand mixture could fill about 44,100 typical household sandboxes.
Heating capacity is 46,000,000 British thermal units (BTUH) per hour – enough to heat 575 houses.
The total weight of the concrete panels installed on the exterior of the School of Physical Activity Education Services building is about 2,610,000 pounds.
There are more than 21,000 lineal feet (four miles) of electrical conduit installed within the footprint of PAES to feed the electrical panels and equipment.
There are 1,000,000 pounds of sheet metal ductwork in the project.
