ECC Awards Contracts for New Coliseum and Pool
Press Release dated December 4, 1965 regarding the contracts for the coliseum and pool. This and other press releases may be found in the records of News Bureau, Record Group IA1300, Series 1, News Release File, 1939-1988 in the University Archives.
Citation for this particular press release is:
ECC Awards Contracts for New Coliseum and Pool, News Release, December 4, 1965, ECU Universty Archives, Record Group IA1300, Series 1, Box 13, Folder A.
GREENVILLE -- East Carolina College announced Friday the award of contracts totaling about $2,250,000 for construction of its new 6,500-seat coliseum and connecting pool facility.
Construction is under way on a site just west of Ficklen Stadium. Completion is scheduled within of 18 months.
The general contractor, Dickerson, Inc., of Monroe, started site preparation work last week on the strength of a letter of intent from the college.
The four contract awards total $2,245,942. That leaves roughly $250,000 of the $2.5 million budget for contingencies, architectural fees and movable equipment.
Dickerson's contract is for $1,849,578. Other contractors are Kinston Plumbing & Heating Co. of Kinston, plumbing ($121,118) and heating and air conditioning ($176,758), and Southerland Electrice Co. of Jacksonville, electrical work ($98,488).
The gym will have a total inside area of about 108,000 square feet in it's three parts -- the coliseum for basketball, the swimming and diving pool area and the connecting link of classrooms and offices.
Overall, the structure will be about 500 feet long and will have a clear, unhindered span of around 200 feet in area.
Designers of the gym are the three Raleigh firms: F. Carter Williams, architect; H. L. Buffaloe, mechanical engineering; and Kahn and Furbush, structural engineering.
An unusual construction feature of the building is the method the contractor will use to build the roof. It will be put together at the ground level and then jacked into place on its supports.
When the new gym is completed Memorial Gymnasium in the southeast section of the original campus will be freed for use as a woman's gymnasium.
