The $7.5-million University of Texas at Dallas Visitor Center and University Bookstore was designed to be an open and flexible space for events and a new front door to the campus. Project team members completed the ground-up, 33,000-sq-ft building in less than seven months and under budget, finishing in July 2011.

在项目的特别具有挑战性elements were 6-ft structural-steel sunshades as well as a steel tensegrity structure in the rotunda.

特纳建筑公司（Turner Construction Co.支撑铝日落，因为钢篷的重量太大了，无法支撑幕墙。”

该设施正门的钢制圆形圆形大厅辅以钢缆结构，该结构用于在圆形大厅的天花板和地板之间漂浮20英尺的风扇。特纳和钢制竖立艾尔温钢铁公司一起工作，在圆形大厅上班后安装了定制的瑞士不锈钢电缆。

"Because the cables had a 14-week lead time, the engineered drawings and tensioning procedure had to be established early in the project without any room for future modifications," Lang added.

项目团队

所有者University of Texas Board of Regents, Richardson, Texas

设计师/MEP工程师达拉斯的Pageoutherlandpage

General ContractorTurner Construction Co., Dallas

土木工程师Charles Gojer & Associates, Inc., Dallas

Structural EngineerDatum-Gojer, Dallas