Riverfront Stadium

The Challenge

The goal of the Riverfront Stadium project was to build a stadium that is not only a beautiful structure for hosting a myriad of events and drawing crowds to a reviving neighborhood, but also to ensure that ballpark visitors, employees, athletes, and journalists experience the up-to-date technology that scrutinizing patrons have come to expect.

This is what the Aptitude team does well: think about how a built environment will be used, and design and manage the implementation of the technology that will make the user’s experience seamless. To make this project more challenging, the city was on an expedited schedule – breaking ground in February 2019 and finishing in April 2020 – a timeline that was condensed by several months compared to similar projects.

Due to this aggressive schedule, the technology design was not complete prior to the start of construction, creating unique challenges associated with rough-in, routing, and just-in-time delivery of critical materials and equipment.

Collaborative Approach

The stadium’s technology considerations included a need for network cabling for voice and data; a broadcast booth which would need to be integrated with a scoreboard and the audio-visual throughout the stadium, as well as accounting for external broadcasts; wireless internet; closed circuit television; a pace of game clock; intrusion detection; and card and gate access security systems. The Aptitude team worked with representatives from Major/Minor League Baseball, the City of Wichita, the design-build team, and four low-voltage trade partners throughout this project. Ongoing communication, collaboration, and finding every efficiency possible were critical to delivering each aspect of the project within its condensed timeline.

Rather than hiring a variety of trade partners who each have their own markup and consider only their individual specialty, Aptitude’s strength lies in how it adds value and saves in project costs by managing every element of the entire technology picture and making sure each system works seamlessly in conjunction with every other system – all while serving as the single point of contact from start to finish.