• Location

    Indianapolis, Indiana

  • Facility Size

    120,000 square feet

  • Seating Capacity

    9,100

  • Completion Date

    2019

  • Envelop Group Companies

    Validated Custom Solutions

Opened in 1928, Hinkle Fieldhouse has hosted national indoor track meets, tennis matches, U.S. Olympic basketball trials, professional and college all-star basketball games, the 1987 Pan American Games volleyball competition, Roller Derby, movie shoots, military barracks, concerts, commencement ceremonies, and six U.S. Presidents. Hinkle Fieldhouse was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.

What the famous facility didn’t have was air conditioning and energy efficient heating.

The university began a $10.5 million dollar renovation in the spring of 2019 and tapped Validated Custom Solutions to tackle their HVAC needs, bring the facility up to code, and maintain the integrity of this historic landmark.

  • Scope of Services

    VCS replaced an archaic heating system with two stacked 60,000 CFM units that provide heating and cooling. The units had to be built in place wall-by-wall, fan-by-fan, and coil-by-coil because of space restrictions.

    The VCS team used creativity and ingenuity to build the units around structural beams and an old coal chute, sometimes with inches of clearance to spare. Then they built catwalks so that the units can be better maintained.

    VCS also installed a Haakan rooftop unit with vestibule which allows maintenance and service to be completed without exposing workers to the elements.

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