Proj Overview

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Indy Fuel, a professional hockey team located at the state fairgrounds in Indianapolis, was seeking a new home. The Indy Fuel agreed to move into the new event center if the city of Fishers would build it. So in 2023, construction began on the Fishers Event Center

Read more about this project in the Summer 2025 issue of Ascent.

PRECAST SOLUTION

The Fishers Event Center would accommodate not just the fans of hockey games but also other athletic tournaments as well as concerts. Precast concrete was an ideal option for acoustics, structural resilience, and fire ratings.

 

Project Team

Architect

SCI Architects

Owner

City of Fishers, Ind.

Contractor

AECOM Hunt

Structural Engineer

Fink, Roberts, Petrie Inc.

Precast Concrete Producer/Photo Credit

CORESLAB Structures (INDIANAPOLIS) Inc.

Key Project Attributes

  • The city needed the seating bowl, which is designed to seat 7500 people, to be flexible and also wanted it to mimic the sight lines used at the downtown Indianapolis home of the Pacers.
  • Coreslab worked with the structural steel contractor to meet an accelerated building schedule that would have the entire event venue substantially built by the end of 2024.

Project/Precast Scope

  • With the aggressive construction schedule, precast concrete had to be erected at night, while workers erected steel during the day.
  • It took only six weeks to erect all the precast concrete, with in-factory fabrication taking about four months.
  • The typical span of the riser units was 30 ft. The seating bowl features Coreslab’s structural gray concrete with form finish bottoms and trowel top finishes to ensure both durability and a sleek aesthetic.