Commercial & Retail

Sevierville Events Center at Bridgemont

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Description:

The Sevierville Events Center at Bridgemont Project consisted of the construction of an approximately 200,000 square feet multi-use events center with a high bay 108,000 square feet Exhibit Hall, a nearly 20,000 square feet ball room and numerous additional meeting and conference and pre-function areas.  In addition, to accommodate the parking requirements, a three level parking garage adjacent to the center.  The important design and construction aspects consisted of  the following elements:

  • Tight site constraints with numerous MSE retaining walls and terrace levels in both cut and fills applications
  • Site specific seismic study to minimize the impacts of the new IBC Code restrictions
  • A portion of the facility was founded on shallow rock bearing foundations requiring detailed differential settlement calculations.
  • High structural loads for exhibit hall and parking garage required intermediate and deep foundations to control settlement
  • a rippability analysis and rock trenching analysis was performed by GEOServices to minimize the mass rock excavations for foundation and utilities at the site.

The total project cost exceeded $100-million.


GEOServices Services:

GEOServices was responsible for all geotechnical testing, geotechnical design (MSE wall design), and QA/QC testing in accordance with stringent GSA and FBI standards.  GEOServices provided materials testing service in conjunction with their off-site AASHTO approved laboratory.  On-site materials testing services including soils testing, concrete testing, foundation observations, micro-pile  inspection services, retaining wall inspections, reinforcing steel inspections, structural steel inspections (superstructure), aggregate testing, and asphalt testing.