Fudge Football Center nearing completion

Article posted by Coliseum, November 16^th, 2023

Image: AECOM and @BUFootball (Twitter)

The Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Management (AECOM)-designed the Fudge Family Football Operations Center at Baylor University (Texas, US) is scheduled to be completed in Summer 2024.

‘A tweet by AECOM’ stated that the project includes a dual two-lane highway, approximately 2.3 miles (3.8 kilometers) long, of which about 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) is in the form of a tunnel. Its construction facilitated the use of the world’s biggest tunnel boring machine (TBM) at the time.

The Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Management (AECOM) are a multinational infrastructure consulting firm with its global headquarters in Dallas, Texas (US).

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The Fudge Football Operations Center is a 105,000 square foot facility at Baylor University (US). The center will house the day-to-day operations of the Baylor football program.

The Baylor University is a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas (US). Baylor was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas.

‘The tweet by AECOM’ further stated that the facility is expected to be completed during Spring 2024. The Fudge Center will connect to the Allison Indoor Practice Facility, expanding the 80-yard indoor turf field to 100 yards and creating more than 100,000 square feet of new space for the Baylor football program.

The Baylor Bears football team represents Baylor University in Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football. They are a member of the Big 12 Conference.

The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic Conference headquartered in Irving, Texas (US). It consists of 14 full-member universities in the States of Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.

Fudge Football Development Center

This building will serve as the future headquarters for the Baylor football program. It will house the football coaches’ offices, football locker rooms, hydrotherapy, and ancillary offices for the football support staff.

Allison Indoor Facility

The Fudge Center will connect to the Allison Indoor Practice Facility, expanding the 80-yard indoor turf field to 100 yards.

The Fudge Center will create more than 100,000 square feet of new space for the Baylor football program. This will create space within Baylor Athletics’ other buildings for greater use by the university’s other 18 collegiate athletic programs.

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