Ames Construction Facts
Architects:
Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott Boston, Massachusetts
Contracting/ Construction Management:
Feimley-Dickerson Company, Bloomington, Illinois
Engineers:
Mechanical and Electrical � BBA Engineers, Bloomington, Illinois
Civil � Farnsworth & Wylie, Bloomington, Illinois
Structural � Lim Consultants, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Landscape � 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 � Brick, trimmed with Indiana limestone
Rotunda � Honduras mahogany wood, thermal cut granite, polymix paint,cold cathode
lighting and carpet
Main Flooring � Carpet, total amount 9000 SY (81,000 SF)
4th Floor Rotunda Flooring � Cork
All Other Flooring � Granite, total weight 54 Tons (108,000 Ibs)
Total Concrete Used � 13.8 million pounds
Structural Steel � 860 tons
Rebar Steel � 206 tons
Brick � 445,000 bricks (2.22 million lbs.)
Glass Windows � 11,816 square feet (approx. 73,850 lbs.)
Electrical Wire � 75.75 miles
Plumbing Pipe � 24.62 miles
Paint � 1,482 gallons
Roof Garden � 570 payers (110 lbs each)
Ames Plaza � 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 淎 Touch of Glass� Normal, Illinois. See the Pembroke windows' for more information.