The Little Rock Christian Warrior Arena is an approximately 57,430 SF arena that includes a gym, classrooms, offices, locker rooms, concessions area, lobby, reception, film room, training/weight room, and storage.
The scope of work for this project included, but was not limited to, the following: mass earthwork and storm drainage (including several French drains added during construction to help alleviate water issues created by the up-gradient pond and subsurface shale); undercut up to 6’ at existing pond area, and replace with engineered select fill for development of building pad and NW parking lot; asphalt paving and aggregate base; striping and signage; concrete slab-on-grade and slab-on-metal deck; concrete sidewalks, curb and gutter and handicap ramps; polished and sealed concrete floors; structural steel package for 2nd floor level and bleachers, married up to a pre-engineered metal building package; solid surface counter tops; standing seam metal roof at PEMB, and TPO roof over classrooms and lobby; aluminum storefront and curtain wall; NanaWall glass wall system; overhead glass doors; drywall walls and ceilings, and acoustic ceilings with acoustic panels in the main gym area; wood sports floor in the gym, rubber flooring in the weight room, carpet in offices, tile in restrooms; DX cooling and heating system with VAV’s and BAS controls; wet pipe sprinkler system; electrical system with fire alarm system, PA system and security system
The project was based on a fourteen-month schedule. Despite many challenges they did not parlay the substantial completion date of November 26, 2019, Kinco finished on-time with a very short punch-list.
The first challenge of this project was the fact that dirt work started during the winter which historically is Arkansas’ rainy season and there ended up being even more precipitation than originally expected. Kinco, along with its excavation subcontractor and geotechnical engineer, evaluated, received approval for, and installed several French drains and additional storm drain features that assisted in helping to shed water from the site that allowed us to get the building pad done ahead of schedule.
The next challenge was working to match a structural steel package with a pre-engineered building package. After many phone conversations and several meetings between Kinco, the structural steel fabricator, PEMB fabricators, and the design team, accurate and complete fabrication and erection drawings were created. Subsequent meetings with our steel erector who erected both the structural steel and the pre-engineered metal building were also held that allowed for an efficient and seamless installation of both packages.
The entire Kinco team encouraged the client’s project manager and the design team to be fully involved with our preconstruction meeting with subcontractors, weekly subcontractor coordination meetings, preconstruction envelope meeting with subcontractors, and to come tour the project at any time. We also held weekly OAC (owner-architect-contractor) meetings that provided an opportunity for the owner and design team to stay up-to-date on the progress of construction, and be fully aware of any issues that we might be having with design, subcontractors or materials.
