The Pike Company, Inc.: Ithaca College A& E Center JANUARY 10 www. bus- ex. com 169 soccer, baseball, tennis, softball and football, as well as an events facility- athletic and strength training space, athletic department offices, a press box and VIP room, team locker rooms, an indoor trophy display area and an outdoor plaza; an 81,000- square- foot outdoor stadium featuring synthetic turf and seating for 1,000 people and suitable for multiple sports; a 40,000- square- foot outdoor tennis facility with multiple lighted courts; and an aquatics pavilion featuring an eight- lane Olympic-sized pool, classrooms and seating for 1,000 spectators as well as related offices and amenities. Ithaca College has designed the athletic and events complex so that it can be added onto in the future as fundraising allows and as growth of the school and its sports programs warrants. Possible additional plans call for new facilities for volleyball, gymnastics and wrestling as well as additional strength and athletic training facilities. In addition to the many sports- related amenities, the work includes construction of new roads and walking and bike trails to connect the complex to the main Championship teams deserve championship fields. Sports Construction Group, working with Pike Construction, will deliver such fields for the Ithaca College Athletics and Events Center. SCG is a sports field contractor that handles all phases of natural and synthetic turf jobs, from excavation and sub base through installation and maintenance. SCG has more than 50 years of construction experience, including more than 20 years building high- performance sports fields. SCG's clients include one- fourth of National Football League teams, one- fifth of Major League Baseball teams and scores of top- tier collegiate and high school teams. More information is available on our website. Sports Construction Group

170 www. bus- ex. com JANUARY 10 campus, and it required extensive cutting and filling to level the site and make the facilities possible, notes Brown. The fieldhouse is also slated to double as an events center for the university. " It's a project with a lot of pieces to it," he adds. " There's a lot of traditional construction and also some more specialized work involved. Even though we've got buildings going up, site work is continuing and will do so for another nine months, so a lot of coordination is required to keep all the components from running into one another." The Pike Company traces its history back to the 1870s when founder John Barnabas Pike and his family arrived in Rochester from Holland via packet boat on the Erie Canal. Today, the company's 350- plus employees provide a range of services including preconstruction services, building information modeling ( BIM), construction management, design- build and program management. It also operates a facilities management division. At Ithaca, Pike self- performed most of the concrete foundation work, relying on subcontractors for the bulk of the remaining work. While the company has extensive relationships in the region, some specialty contractors were needed to source specialty athletic equipment such as track and field components, batting cages and protective curtains and indoor athletic flooring. Finding a contractor capable of completing the work on the pool- which measures 180 feet by 75 feet- also took some extra diligence. The fieldhouse component of the project was designed to seek Silver- level certification from the US