Marlins Ball Park

Greenheck Project Profile Marlins Park Miami, FL

Mechanical Engineer: Populous Kansas City, MO General Contractor: Hunt/Moss, A Joint Venture Miami, FL Mechanical Contractor: John J. Kirlin, LLC Fort Lauderdale, FL Mechanical Subcontractor: United Sheet Metal Company

Applegate USA, Inc. Marlins Park was the first major league ballpark to earn LEED Gold Certification. Pompano Beach, FL Photo Courtesy Miami Marlins. Greenheck Representative: The LEED® Certification Mark is a registered trademark owned by the U.S. Cors-Air Green Building Council® and is used with permission. Pembroke Park, FL The Challenge

Provide a life-safety smoke 2009 and was completed in removal system be installed to exhaust system that March of 2012 in time for the ensure the safe evacuation of protects fans and players 2012 Major League Baseball fans and employees in the event during an emergency season. The new Marlins Park is of a fire. Due to the location of Install an energy-efficient located on the site of the former the ballpark in the Florida high- air distribution system Orange Bowl and includes a velocity hurricane zone, roof that provides comfortable retractable roof to shelter fans mounted ventilation equipment ventilation for fans and from Miami’s intense summer also needed to be Miami-Dade players throughout the heat, humidity and rain showers. Qualified and Florida Approved. ballpark and the concourse Average temperature inside Successfully executed area the park with the roof closed is sustainability initiatives Ensure compliance to 75 degrees F. The spectacular throughout the design and Miami-Dade County and ballpark includes a swimming construction process resulted Florida building codes pool adjoining left field and two in Marlins Park becoming the relating to hurricanes and aquariums behind home plate. world’s first retractable roof high winds Fan safety and comfort were ballpark to earn LEED Gold key priorities in building the Construction of the new Certification by the U.S. Green ballpark. Area building codes 37,000-seat Marlins Park in Building Council. required that a reliable, top Miami, Florida began in July, performing life-safety smoke Greenheck’s Solution

60 Fire Smoke Dampers, emergency situation, Model FSD, and Smoke smoke flows to ten exhaust Dampers, Model SMD louvered penthouse 10 Exhaust Louvered ventilators, Model ESD Penthouse Ventilators, 635PD, mounted on the Model ESD 635PD roof. Greenheck’s louvered Sixty Greenheck combination penthouse ventilators were fire/smoke dampers, Model FSD, selected to add an aesthetic Greenheck Louvered Penthouse Model ESD 635PD and smoke dampers, Model appeal to the ballpark’s SMD, were installed roofline and aluminum construction with a at Marlins Park also because of maximum design wind load of to displace smoke their ability to 115 PSF (positive or negative). primarily from the resist impact In addition, 200 commercial concourse area to aid and withstand control dampers, Model VCD, fan evacuation in the high winds in and miscellaneous exhaust event of a fire. All the conformance and intake fans to facilitate air dampers specified with Miami-Dade distribution including Model GB, and installed were and Florida code centrifugal roof exhaust fans, Greenheck Combination Fire/ tested and labeled in Smoke Damper Model FSD requirements. Model AX, vane axial medium accordance with Model ESD 635PD pressure fans, Model QEI, UL 555 and UL 555S, and is Miami-Dade Qualified and mixed flow fans, Model BSQ, provide fire resistance ratings Florida Product Approved centrifugal inline fans, of either 1-1/2 or 3-hours and for use within Florida’s high Model SP, ceiling exhaust fans, leakage class ratings of I, II, velocity hurricane zone and and Model CSP, inline cabinet or III. complies with Florida test fans were installed. When the dampers protocols TAS 201, TAS 202, and automatically open in an TAS 203. Model ESD features all

The Results

Extensive coordination products arrived as needed to with general contractors and ensure ballpark completion for engineers was required due to opening day on April 4, 2012. multiple change orders during Appropriate building inspectors the construction and the desire approved the life-safety smoke to finish the park in time for removal system and verified the 2012 season. Despite the compliance to Miami-Dade and hectic schedule, Greenheck Florida hurricane requirements.