It’s 15feet from the ceiling to the highest point of the curved roof
The Behlen roof is an architectural gem. It spans 200 feet without a single support column.
The roof of the Charles Jago Northern Sport Centre is held together with 750,000 bolts
It took workers 10 weeks to construct the roof.
The Concrete
The main structural columns feature concrete that was poured from
the bottom, instead of from the top. This technique saved about 30 days
of construction time.
The structural columns around the perimeter of the building are each 40 feet tall.
3500 cubic metres of concrete was used to build the Northern Sport Centre, enough to fill more than 600 concrete trucks.
The Fieldhouse
The fieldhouse can accommodate two indoor soccer field measuring up to 85 x 190 feet each.
The crushed gravel base for the turf in the fieldhouse had to be level within 3 mm spread over a square metre.
The turf features 140,000 blades of “grass” within one square metre.
Each blade of grass in the turf is 40mm tall.
The Track
The rubber surface of the track is 13mm thick.
The elevated track is 30 feet above the ground and features an 80m
straightaway. At 280m long, it’s the longest indoor track in BC.
The track was made with 1.8 million pounds of concrete.
The Wood
There are 40 wood beams in the Canfor Plaza, and some of the beams are the largest on the entire campus.
21,300 pieces of wood were assembled to make the floor of the gymnasium.
There are 1600 sheets of plywood under the pilates studio, gymnasium, and squash court floors.
Other Interesting Stats
There are 40,000 bricks on the outside of the Northern Sport Centre.
The heating and air conditioning systems circulate 42,000 cubic
feet of air per minute. They’re so big that 768,000 pounds of concrete
and steel were used to build the platform on which they’re situated.
When both bleachers are installed, the gymnasium will provide seating for 2080 spectators.
The Northern Sport Centre is roughly 200-feet long by 400-feet
wide. It’s big enough to accommodate 5 hockey rinks. Just the size of
the entry, offices, sport med clinic and weight room is roughly
equivalent to the Wood Wheaton car dealership in Prince George.
The Northern Sport Centre has more than 1000 lights.
Athletic Achievements
UNBC grad Bo Hedges (pictured at right) has been selected to the national men’s
wheelchair basketball team that will compete next year in Beijing.
UNBC grad Barb Sharp carried the flag for Canada at the 2003 World University Games.
UNBC student Jacqui Benson posted best-ever Canadian results for
cross-country skiing at the 2007 World University Games in Torino. She
was also the top university/college athlete at the National
Cross-Country Ski Championships this year.
UNBC grad Nikki Kassel (at left) was named an All-Canadian following her
performance during the 2006 cross-country nationals in Prince George.
The UNBC basketball program has produced five academic
All-Canadians: Kent Bergstrom, Lindsay Anderson, Nicole Kerr, Christina
Neufeld, and Brett Stewart.
UNBC Athletics has produced four Athletic All-Canadians: Dean
Whalen (basketball), Nikki Kassel (skiing), Dana Larsen (basketball),
and Lindsay Anderson (basketball).
