Papa John's Stadium

Brownfield Redevelopment (1996 – 1998)

The University of Louisville Papa John's Stadium was built on a 92-acre site that had been contaminated with every conceivable industrial chemical during its 90 years as a railroad repair yard. In consideration of the site's intended use, a risk management plan was developed to sufficiently "cap" the contamination, protecting both construction workers and future users from exposure. Through MACTEC's technical leadership and the cooperative efforts of all parties concerned, remediation costs ultimately were reduced from the seller's original $40 million estimate to only $6.8 million, on this site which was considered by one state environmental agency official to be "as bad as some places on the federal Superfund list of the nation's worst hazardous waste sites."

MACTEC Services:
Technical leadership in the areas of geotechnical and environmental engineering including site characterization, risk assessment, review of all environmental services and health & safety plans, and construction phase inspection and consulting.

Awards:

2000 Carl V. Anderson Conservation Project Award of Excellence, Special Projects Category, from the Association of Conservation Engineers

1999 Grand Prize Phoenix Award, presented at the annual Industrial Site Recycling Conference by the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania for "extraordinary innovation and cooperation among various stakeholders and demonstrated significant benefit to its community."