Update< Globe Life Field Quarterly News March 2019 What's On Deck: » Mega Cranes and Crews Building Like a Boss » Rangers Reveal New Globe Life Field Renderings » Turf Talk: Shaw Sports Turf Choosen for Globe Life Field » Live! by Loews to Open in August » At the Park With Chuck » MWBE Spotlight, and More! Mega Cranes AND CREWS are building like a boss! 2 s many as 14 cranes at a time have been at president of project development. “To us, cranes work day and night on the Globe Life Field mean progress.” Aconstruction site, hoisting massive sections of steel, stone and other materials used to create The cranes are expected to continue heavy lifting on the walls, seating bowl, retractable roof and other the ballpark project through the end of the year, Hill elements of the Rangers’ ballpark. said. Globe Life Field will open in March 2020. “It’s great to see all the cranes out here. We have “It will be even better to see the day they finish up cranes on all sides of the stadium and several and leave the site,” he said. down in the seating bowl,” said Jack Hill, senior vice 3 New Globe Life Field renderings On March 7, the Rangers and HKS released a series of new renderings that depict the east, southeast and west exteriors of Globe Life Field. Other renderings included interior views from the upper left field concourse, right field and the field level suites, which are located directly behind home plate. 4 New Globe Life Field renderings 5 TurfTalk Texas Rangers To Utilize Synthetic Grass Playing Surface For The New Globe Life Field he Texas Rangers announced in January that the club will install Ta specially designed synthetic grass playing surface for the new Globe Life Field. The decision to utilize a synthetic grass playing surface was made after the Rangers organization completed almost two years of research to satisfy the club’s total requirements for player safely, team performance and fan experience. The synthetic grass field will be provided by Shaw Sports Turf with installation completed by Texas- based Paragon Sports Constructors. The choice to go with Shaw Sports In addition to the benchmarking The goal is to not only have the highest Turf is rooted in data and supported research, Shaw Sports Turf is funding performing synthetic grass, but by extensive research as it relates to and participating in a kinesiology also to have the highest performing player safety. Shaw used Globe Life study with Auburn University. This surface for baseball. This research is Park in Arlington’s current natural study’s main goal is to research how based on seven playability metrics grass field as one of the benchmarks players react on certain surfaces and a patented data analysis tool that for its ongoing playability study, and then use that data to tune compares system characteristics to conducting a series of tests on that systems for player safety and optimal top-level natural grass surfaces. Shaw playing surface in August 2017. performance. Sports Turf’s newest evolution in baseball, the B1K “Batting a Thousand” system, is a result of this research. “From our first visit with the staff at Shaw Sports Turf, we were clear that a synthetic grass surface for Globe Life Field would only be a consideration if it could deliver the best surface in Major League Baseball and address the concerns we had related to impact on the players,” said Rob Matwick, Rangers executive vice president of business operations. "Months of detailed research that included extensive input from our Baseball Operations group from both a health and performance 6 aspect have resulted in this decision. ASK EXPERTSthe WILLIAM CHAFFE, President of Paragon Sports Constructors, LLC The City of Arlington’s Office of Communication recently talked to William Chaffe, president of Paragon Sports Constructors, LLC, a sports “Shaw’s commitment to research and priority from the start. I am very construction company that specializes development have been second- confident that this is going to be a in the construction of synthetic grass to-none,” said Matwick. “However, great product that no player has ever sports fields and running tracks. its engagement with the study at experienced in his career.” “We are a North Texas company. We’re Auburn demonstrated to our staff located 20 minutes down the road,” By using the data analysis tool, that Shaw was just as concerned Chaffe said. “We have employees the system can be tuned to meet about player safety as we were.” who live in Arlington and we have the playability characteristics that Jamie Reed, who is the Rangers’ matter most to the team. The system employees who send their kids to senior director of medical operations provided to the Rangers will be Arlington schools. The pride that we and sports science, has been heavily specific to their needs and unique will have in this field because of our involved in the turf studies at to Globe Life Field. The Rangers connections to Arlington is really going Auburn University and has been the will opt for the B1K natural system, to be very special.” Rangers’ primary point person on the which employs a natural, sustainable safely and performance aspects of infill called Geofill. The system researching playing surfaces. This has results in excellent ball-surface included site visits and testing with and player-surface interaction. minor league players on turf surfaces. The ball bounce will be in line with bounce trajectories on natural grass. “During thirty seven years in Improved player-surface interaction professional baseball, my emphasis results in fewer instances of lower- has been on player safety and the extremity fatigue and true reaction prevention of injuries,” Reed said. “As times. Player safety and performance we did the research and studies on played a major role in the Rangers' determining our new field surface, decision. these goals have been the main 7 8 Rangers’ Globe Life Field Features Texas Inspiration Inside and Out From the limestone quarried in Lampasas to the “Champion Red” Acme brick made in Denton, the Texas Rangers’ future Globe Life Field features materials inside and out made here in the Lone Star State. Bryan Trubey, executive vice president of HKS and the principal Rangers Celebrate designer of Globe Life Field, discussed the materials being used in the construction of both exterior and interior elements of the new National Women in retractable roof ballpark during a March 7 construction site media tour. Trubey and the HKS design team have incorporated a variety Construction Week of materials, the majority of which are being produced in Texas, that reflect the elements of form and structure, transparency and The Texas Rangers celebrated landscape. National Women in Construc- For example, more than 1 million Acme bricks will be used in the tion Week in March by honoring ballpark project. The “Champion Red” brick is made at Acme’s the hard-working women who Denton Plant. This facility also supplied the exterior of the Rangers’ are making the Globe Life Field current home, Globe Life Park. project become reality. Profiles included laborers, administrators, GLOBE LIFE FIELD CONSTRUCTION engineers and the construction Materials from Texas include: site’s only female safety manager. » Steel: Irwin Steel – Justin, Texas » Curtainwall System: OldCastle – Alba, Texas In the photo above: Meet Telissa » Masonry Veneer: ACME – Denison, Texas Hubbard. Hubbard is a Senior » Precast Walls: Enterprise – Corsicana, Texas Project Engineer with Manhattan, » Limestone: Mezger – Lampasas, Texas currently working on Globe Life Field. Hubbard is in her fourth year with Manhattan Construc- tion and currently oversees the structural steel, roofing and handrails on the project. 9 10 BALLPARK BRIEFS Rangers’ Office Building Taking Shape First Roof Truss Installed The Texas Rangers’ Office Building, located on the The largest American-made Crawler Crane, the southeast side of Globe Life Field, is taking shape. Manitowic 31000, is hard at work inside the future The exterior brick has been laid, windows have been ballpark. In February, this massive crane lifted the first installed and the interior work is under way on the section of the fixed west roof truss into place. The large four-story structure, which is part of the new ballpark. piece of steel, which weighs 1.2 million pounds, was just The Rangers are expected to move its current offices at a portion of the 19,000 tons of steel that will complete Globe Life Park into the new office space in early 2020. the roof. These trusses will provide support for the 240,000-square-foot roof, which will open and close on a track with the help of 20 electric motors. Main Concourse Complete, Other Public Safety Planning Milestones Marked The Arlington Police and Fire Departments continue Several construction milestones for Globe Life Field were to be actively involved in the preparation of tactical recently completed. The final section of concrete for the plans for emergency response, crime prevention, and ballpark’s main concourse was poured in December, the detection of planned acts of terrorism at Globe Life and escalators have also been installed. About 16,000 Field, which will be able to seat about 40,000 spectators pounds of steel were used to construct the 360-degree and will requires hundreds of support personnel during interior bowl, with the final piece set in February. games and other events. Work to install precast seating risers on the main On a weekly basis, police and fire officials, the Rangers concourse is nearly complete. The lower seating bowl and the construction team review and discuss on-site hasn’t been installed yet to allow plenty of room for emergency response protocols, security enhancements the heavy equipment needed for the roof construction and communications technology.