1. CIT 236 Spring 2012
(Site Development)
Miami Ballpark
Sherif Teaima
Feb. 10, 2012

2. Project Highlights
 Location: Miami, FL.
 Owner: Dade County, FL.
 Operator: Miami Marlins.
 Cost: $550 million.
 Capacity: 3,700 Seats.
 Start of construction:
July 1st
,2009.
 End of construction:
March 5th
,2012.
 First official game:
April 4th
,2012.
 Architect: Populous architects (Kansas city).
 GC: Hunt and Moss construction.

3. Marlins Retractable Roof
Marlins is the nation’s first retractable roof
baseball park engineered to withstand 146 mph
winds. (structural design by Walter P Moore)

4. Retractable roof features:
Consists of three moving panels skirted by 2 fixed panels that achieve
the spaceship-like shape, of total weight 7,800 tons of steel
Upper panel: 578 ft x 260 ft and 2 lower panels: 548 ft x 145 ft
Moved by traction system powered by ten 76-hp electric drive motors

5. Early stage in site work

6. Early stage in roof construction after the
retractable-panel trusses been erected.

7. 4 Falsework Towers were used to erect 5 truss
sections for each movable truss panel

8. Falsework towers

9. Completion of roof construction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj1U4A4DP-Y&feature=bf_prev&list=FL
mh_lolz

10. Marlins LEED credits
Miami Marlins is the first Silver LEED
certified ballpark with a retractable roof in
the country .
Some of the LEED points are earned through:
Water reduction
Recycle of construction waste
Use of local materials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mYA-bR0FU0&list=FLn3EwjihrAMomv6cJXnkTbw
plpp_video

11. WORK CITED
• www.enr.construction.com Accessed
02/04/2012
• www.miami.marlins.mlb.com Accessed
02/06/2012
• www.youtube.com Accessed
02/04/2012
• Google images Accessed
02/07/2012