Project Details

• Architect : Populous
• Role : Ownership Playing Field Project Manager
• Budget : $45,000,000
• Status : Projected to be completed in Fall 2017

Project Description

The complex will be home to the U.S. Soccer National Coaching Education Center - providing a permanent, national home for the education of coaches and referees and the Children's Mercy Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center.

The NTCDC is planned to accommodate seven full-sizesoccer fields. It will have five fields upon its opening, including a seven-acre natural grass Super Pitch which consists of three full-size fields and two lighted, synthetic turf fields. The new, state of the art Super Pitch will be the training home for the Sporting Kansas City first team.

FTE led the design and construction administrative activities for these high performance pitches. Including, a flexible valve in head irrigation design allowing the grounds keeper full individual touch screen control of each irrigation head.