Fast Facts

All about RIT’s new Gordon Field House and Activities Center:

• 8,500 person occupancy

• 2,500 bleacher seats with back and arm rests

• 60,000-square-foot indoor track and playing fields

• 500,000-gallon, 60-by-120 foot intramural competition pool with moveable bulkhead

• 92,000-gallon recreational pool with wave machine and
25-person Jacuzzi

• 18,000-square-foot two-story fitness center (three times the size of the current weight room)

• 764 steel pipe pilings embedded 30 feet into bedrock to support the structure

• 650 tons of steel

• 20 miles of wiring

• 50-foot-tall, 65,000-pound decorative tower

• 130,000 bricks!

More photos and information about the new Gordon Field House and Activities Center can be found on the Web at www.rit.edu/fieldhouse.