Progress Update #41

Progress Update #41 – Overview/Project Accomplishments:

• Flex Base (Rock) install for crane pads started.
• Backfilling and installing waterproofing behind building foundation walls.
• Institute and Theater metal decking complete.
• Finishing the installation of elevator hydraulic jacks.
• Structural Steel Decking in café area.
• Structural Steel Column Install in back of house/loading dock area.
• Loading Dock Concrete Walls Complete.
• Welding steel caps at top of columns in prep for disk bearing install.
• Installing void boxes, waterproofing and rebar for stramp wall concrete pour.

Theater

This state-of-the-art, 239-seat Theater will be the performance centerpiece of the Museum.  The Theater will host speaker programs, author talks, musical performances, events with Medal of Honor Recipients, a Medal of Honor themed movie festival, and other attention-grabbing presentations.  As an essential space supporting the Museum’s education and leadership programs, the Theater’s design will facilitate a wide variety of presentation and performance types.  The Theater will be equipped to support the needs of on-site local and national media coverage for world-class events and programs hosted at the Museum. 

The Theater interior measures 73’-8” by 52’-4” and the view to the lake will be through a glass wall 23’ tall.  The glass wall is being made in Germany and is designed as a structural glass system with glass fins and no mullions.

*The ‘Future’ Image (far right) does not reflect the final design of the interior of the Theater.