DALLAS — The Beck Group has broken ground on a 43,770-square-foot aquatics center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Designed by Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects, the new facility will be located on SMU’s East Campus next to a DART rail line. The aquatics center will provide facilities for practice, competition and community use. The two-story collegiate competition swimming and diving center will be designed to emulate the Georgian style of the main campus with an Olympic-sized, eight-lane indoor pool; diving platform well with four springboards and a 10-meter tower for training and competition; fixed bleacher seating for 800 spectators; men’s, women’s and visitor locker rooms; meeting space and classrooms; and coaches’ offices. Construction of the aquatics center is scheduled to begin in March and will be complete in August 2017.
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