Progress Update #60

Overview/Project Accomplishments:

• Exhibit Hall floor pours 1 & 2 completed.
• Completed Exhibit Hall Roof Decking.
• Installing roof cladding support structure.
• Installing CMU around pump house.
• Great Hall glass installed.
• Theater glass install ongoing.
• Interior Rotunda level Wall Framing Ongoing.
• Installing Overhead MEPF conduits, duct & pipe Throughout the Rotunda.
• Rotunda roof waterproofing beginning.
• Great Hall fireproofing and exterior wall framing complete.

Glass Panes in the Great Hall

• The beautiful, full-height glass panes that are used in both the Great Hall and the Leadership Theater are oversized units made in Steyr, Austria by Vandaglas. 
• Each double-laminated pane is 23 feet tall, 7 wide, and weighs 2,200 lbs. 
• Each tall pane is stabilized by triple-laminated glass “fins” that are 23 feet tall x 1’2” wide . 
• The total assembly of glass in each end wall weighs more than 11 tons.