5.27.11 | San Marcos, TX | Heery International, as a design consultant partner with the architecture firm O’Connell Robertson, has been awarded a contract by Texas State University to design an expansion of the university’s football stadium.

The 97,000-square-foot expansion of Bobcat Stadium’s north end zone will add 13,400 seats, new visiting team and officials’ locker rooms, and a kitchen and storage area. The ground-level concourse will include a bookstore/café, new concessions and additional restrooms. Also part of the project is the design of a Strutters’ gallery, a living museum to honor the precision dance team that is the largest in the nation. The team is renowned for its contributions to game day pageantry.

The expanded stadium is scheduled to open in time for the 2012 football season.

“One of the key reasons the Heery/O’Connell Robertson team was selected by officials to design the north end zone expansion was our success in designing the stadium’s west side expansion,” says Mike Holleman, Heery Vice President and Director of Sports Facilities. “The Heery/O’Connell Robertson team designed and constructed that facility in only 10 months.” That project earned a gold award for design excellence from the American Society of Interior Designers, Georgia Chapter.

Heery International is an 800-person architecture, interior design, engineering, program management and construction management firm with offices nationwide. As an affiliated company of Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the world’s leading professional services companies, Heery now operates as that firm’s U.S. buildings operating company. (www.heery.com)