Construction Cam APC ( Athletic Performance Complex )

[cajunhawk]

Looks like the offices on the second floor is the expanded area, the plans on the athletic website show it going to middle of the entrance structure, but looking



Best I can tell from the background rendering it was expanded to just past the entrance.



Keep an eye out at LaTechSports.com sure the announcement about the Pressbox expansion will be out by the end of the year.

I hope we can follow suit...our press box...like yours...is in dire need of work.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Link?

I didn't come to flame, a question was asked about Tech's DAC and how it compared to your APC, I answered it using the only information I can find on your athletics website, http://ragincajuns.com/sports/2013/3...37.aspx?id=576

I thought the 100k came from the ~65k for APC and the ~25k for the Track/Soccer.

What's been added over the 65k shown in the initial drawings to get a >50% increase in square footage? I wouldn't think that little Phase 2 area would add that much.

Realy dude? Just keep on making yourself feel like Sherlock Holmes.

[CajunDreDog]

Since when does 65 + 25 = 100? Oh at LA Tech it does, where math is complex and counting people in the stands can only be done by people at NASA.

[KajunKrazy]

The only side of the building that matters is the inside. That's where the players will be, that's where the recruits will be taken. That's what it was built for, the athletes and recruiting.... Not so people can drive by and say, look how pretty that architecture is.

You are partially correct. It will definitely serve as a recruiting tool for athletes. That structure will also be the signature building for the whole athletic department as of the date of its completion. It will serve as a 24/7 commercial as to what direction the athletic department is heading. Since only about 2 to 4 percent of all the people who see that building will see the outside only, I would think you would want it to be impressive from the curb appeal point of view as well. That's only if you want to impress the masses and not just the very small % that go inside on a daily basis. I like to think big the more people who like what they see the more inclined they will be to support.

I am of the opinion (that will never change) metal buildings look more like shops or warehouses as some previous post mentioned. Metal cheapens the whole curb appeal point of view. I realize it is not finished but for someone who passes on Cajun Dome Blvd on a regular bases that's shaping up to be one ugly structure. But again that's just me and metal.

[shof]

Plans certainly change between initial concept and final design build. That could be why some of the numbers are conflicting. I also understood they might not build to visitors locker room as a stand-alone facility next to the tunnel, rather incorporating it within the APC.
MelRock?? Did this come up during your recent tour of the new APC?

[LaCajunsFan]

Realy dude? Just keep on making yourself feel like Sherlock Holmes.

LOL: I was thinking more like a Prof. DoLittle. Trying to educate us on something we already knew and that he didn't. Not to mention posting all those pics of floor plans and renderings of projects.....like we haven't seen them before.

But I guess it made the poor little fella feel important for a while....gotta get boring flipping those burgers for a living.

[CrazyCajun]

You are partially correct. It will definitely serve as a recruiting tool for athletes. That structure will also be the signature building for the whole athletic department as of the date of its completion. It will serve as a 24/7 commercial as to what direction the athletic department is heading. Since only about 2 to 4 percent of all the people who see that building will see the outside only, I would think you would want it to be impressive from the curb appeal point of view as well. That's only if you want to impress the masses and not just the very small % that go inside on a daily basis. I like to think big the more people who like what they see the more inclined they will be to support.

I am of the opinion (that will never change) metal buildings look more like shops or warehouses as some previous post mentioned. Metal cheapens the whole curb appeal point of view. I realize it is not finished but for someone who passes on Cajun Dome Blvd on a regular bases that's shaping up to be one ugly structure. But again that's just me and metal.

It prettier than the solid brick building sitting in front of it. Do I wish it was something different on the outside? Probably but my checkbook can't change that...Can any of yours? I'm certainly gonna wait until it's finished before I say what I think it looks like. Use the inside to get the players that make you a top program and you will be able to afford to make the outside look however you want. See that's the problem, some of you would rather look good and lose instead of look bad and win.

[KajunKrazy]

It prettier than the solid brick building sitting in front of it. Do I wish it was something different on the outside? Probably but my checkbook can't change that...Can any of yours? I'm certainly gonna wait until it's finished before I say what I think it looks like. Use the inside to get the players that make you a top program and you will be able to afford to make the outside look however you want. See that's the problem, some of you would rather look good and lose instead of look bad and win.

I have never seen a consistent winner look bad.

[CrazyCajun]

I have never seen a consistent winner look bad.

I have never seen a brick exterior make winners play different... Nor have I read brick attracts better recruits than metal. Our uniforms don't matter to the recruits but the exterior of the first class facility does? Never watched white men can't jump apparently either. Also that was my point, win and nobody will care what the outside of our building is covered with.

[LaCajunsFan]

It prettier than the solid brick building sitting in front of it. Do I wish it was something different on the outside? Probably but my checkbook can't change that...Can any of yours? I'm certainly gonna wait until it's finished before I say what I think it looks like. Use the inside to get the players that make you a top program and you will be able to afford to make the outside look however you want. See that's the problem, some of you would rather look good and lose instead of look bad and win.

Thank you for saying that. Because we cannot forget that we are NOT the university that can afford a $85 million lazy river. (Although our lazy river would be cheaper, since they have three initials and we would only need two.)

So as has been said here before, it's better to get the interior right than to try to make a 'pretty' exterior. And it's Hud and other coaches & staff and students that we should worry most about 'impressing,' and since they seem to be really crazy about it, that works for me. Hud has also said this will go a long way in his recruiting efforts.