Oak Hills Multi-Sport Athletic Complex Construction 2022

Oak Hills High School in Cincinnati has a new lighted synthetic turf field lined for football, soccer and unified lacrosse, with four high-mast light poles, a scoreboard, an elevated press box, a 70-by-40-foot equipment building, team benches, fan bleachers and fencing. Prodigy delivered it design-build under one agreement with civil, architectural and structural engineering in house, from the conditional use submittal and stormwater plan through the drainage base, turf and underground power. The district bought it pre-bid through The Ohio Purchasing Council.

Oak Hills High School in Cincinnati needed a multi-sport field it could schedule — one surface that football, soccer and unified lacrosse could share, with lights, power, seating, a press box and a building to keep equipment in. The district bought the whole thing as design-build on a single agreement, pre-bid through The Ohio Purchasing Council: engineering, architecture, materials and installation from one party rather than a designer hired first and a builder bid against the drawings afterward.

Prodigy carried the civil, architectural and structural engineering in house. Civil covered the preliminary site plan and due diligence, the conditional use submittal, a partial location, topographic and utility survey, the stormwater pollution prevention plan, the detention as-built and easement plat, and construction staking. Architecture covered preliminary design and building elevations for the pole barn and press box, a code review and risk analysis, and the permit and construction documents. Structural provided the general notes and design stamps the Hamilton County permit process required for the barn, the press box and the light poles.

The built work starts underground. Existing dirt and spoils come out, the subgrade is graded and compacted to the site plan, HDPE perforated pipe is laid, a permeable geotextile liner goes over it, and #304 and #57 gravel is laid and compacted, all contained by a reinforced concrete curb poured around the turf. On top of that goes a synthetic turf system of at least 360 by 180 feet with permanent lines for all three sports. Around it sit four high-mast light poles on poured footers and bases with a Wi-Fi lighting control unit, a roughly 70 by 40 foot pole barn with two overhead and two man doors, an elevated press box about 10 by 8 feet with sliding windows and a scoreboard control desk, a scoreboard, fencing along the west and north boundaries, two team benches and two mobile fan bleacher sets. Power reaches all of it by underground boring from the school's existing electrical room.