University of Louisville Commissions Cannon Design to Develop $37.5 Million Rec Center
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This is an artist's rendering of the cardio and weight room in the new $37.5 million, 128,000-square-foot University of Louisville Student Recreation Center, which is scheduled to open in the fall of 2013. Photo courtesy of the University of Louisville.
The recently approved $37.5 million, 128,000-square-foot University of Louisville Student Recreation Center is moving forward with the commission of Cannon Design to design the facility.
Scheduled to open in the fall 2013 semester, the facility will offer exercise and weight equipment; a gymnasium with six courts for basketball, volleyball and other sports; a multi-activity court for indoor soccer, floor hockey and other sports; aerobics and wellness studios; a jogging track; racquetball courts; a fitness lab; classrooms and meeting rooms; locker rooms; food service; a lobby area and a gaming area.
The facility also will include a lighted, outdoor artificial turf field that will be used primarily for student recreation, sports club practices and physical education classes.
The center will be the first university building to be heated and cooled with geothermal energy and is expected to earn gold certification through the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.
The new facility will help resolve the shortage of recreational space on the campus, Michael Mardis, dean of students, said in a university news release. With overcrowding at the university’s main recreation facility, which opened in 1990, and an increase in student enrollment, the expansion was needed to provide for the higher number of students.
“Thousands of students are participating in intramural sports,” Mardis said. “The sports club program has grown from eight to 22 active clubs, and enrollment in our group fitness classes has grown by more than 100 percent over the past three years. The SRC will further enhance their student experience as it will provide students with more space for these activities and events.”
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