Known as the Carolina Student-Athlete Center for Excellence, the expansion work is considered as the second phase of the masterplan for 84 year-old Kenan Stadium. The addition was constructed on a stretch of land that featured a knotty mix of fill soils, subsurface boulders and varying depths to rock. GeoStructures designed a Micropile system which could be drilled into the variable ground conditions to help achieve uniform foundation support.
Geostructures proceeded with a pre-production load testing program to get an optimised design followed by the installation of 265 micropiles. The micropiles ranged in capacity from 80 tons to 175 tons each. Designs in some areas called for tension resistance due to lateral loading. All of the micropiles were cased to rock with internal reinforcement and socketed into hard bedrock present at the site.
New upgrades also include strength and conditioning rooms, bays for satellite TV trucks and additional seating that brought total capacity to 63,000.
