Ames Construction Facts
Architects:
Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott Boston, Massachusetts
Contracting/ Construction Management:
Feimley-Dickerson Company, Bloomington, Illinois
Engineers:
Mechanical and Electrical 鈥� BBA Engineers, Bloomington, Illinois
Civil 鈥� Farnsworth & Wylie, Bloomington, Illinois
Structural 鈥� Lim Consultants, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Landscape 鈥� Brown/Sardina, Boston, Massachusetts
Construction Details:
Groundbreaking, November 6, 1999
Construction begun, February 2000
Excavation, March 2000
Masonry completed, October 1, 2001
Dedication, October 6, 2001
Official opening, January 9, 2002
Cost, $26 million
Total Hours, 168,480 hours (representing 54 workers)
Building Length, 190 feet
Building Width, 114 feet
Building Height, 94 feet to the roofline, 100 feet 8 inches to the top of the Rotunda
Volume, 2.2 million cubic feet
Square Footage, 103,000 square feet
Building Materials:
Exterior 鈥� Brick, trimmed with Indiana limestone
Rotunda 鈥� Honduras mahogany wood, thermal cut granite, polymix paint,cold cathode
lighting and carpet
Main Flooring 鈥� Carpet, total amount 9000 SY (81,000 SF)
4th Floor Rotunda Flooring 鈥� Cork
All Other Flooring 鈥� Granite, total weight 54 Tons (108,000 Ibs)
Total Concrete Used 鈥� 13.8 million pounds
Structural Steel 鈥� 860 tons
Rebar Steel 鈥� 206 tons
Brick 鈥� 445,000 bricks (2.22 million lbs.)
Glass Windows 鈥� 11,816 square feet (approx. 73,850 lbs.)
Electrical Wire 鈥� 75.75 miles
Plumbing Pipe 鈥� 24.62 miles
Paint 鈥� 1,482 gallons
Roof Garden 鈥� 570 payers (110 lbs each)
Ames Plaza 鈥� 20,700 payers
Landscape, Total Number of:
Shrubs 800
Grasses 5435
Trees 160
Plants 1138
Stained Class Panels 4th Floor Rotunda:
8 sets, 16 total, weighing 35 pounds apiece. A gift from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice,
the windows are originally from Pembroke College, Oxford. Restored by Terry Garbe
& staff at 鈥淎 Touch of Glass鈥� Normal, Illinois. See the Pembroke windows' for more information.