Kansas City, Mo., Service Center building receives DBIA award

South Haven, Minn. — Legacy Building Solutions, a designer, manufacturer and installer of tension fabric buildings – in collaboration with the Midwest office of general contracting firm McTech – received a Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) Project/Team Award for the new South Satellite Service Center building in Kansas City, Mo.

The honor will be presented at the DBIA Mid-America Region awards celebration on October 16. The DBIA award recognizes exemplary application of design-build project delivery, resulting in highly successful projects that achieve best value while meeting design and construction quality, cost and schedule goals. The judges for this year’s awards included two owners, one architect, one contractor and one engineer.

The South Satellite Service Center was engineered, constructed and installed by Legacy Building Solutions. The tension fabric building, owned and operated by the city of Kansas City, was designed to house 8,000 tons of salt and sand for winter road maintenance. The enclosed facility features a high-quality, translucent fabric roof mounted on a 10-foot-high, cast-in-place concrete wall, and includes large side doors for drive-through capability. Measuring 100 by 160 feet, the fabric building provides ample room for loading and unloading trucks under roof, while also leaving additional space for liquid storage and a working area.