Construction of the Pine Ridge Justice Center in South Dakota, a $35 million project to house the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s judicial system, is 95 percent complete. The project used 4,150 tons of asphalt, weighing as much as a million gallons of water to fill two Olympic swimming pools.
Featuring a detention center, tribal courts, housing and office space, the LEED Silver project blends traditional tribal justice concepts with a technologically advanced design. Here are other materials used to construct the project, scheduled for completion in June 2014:
- 51 tons of structural steel, the weight of about 25 stacked vehicles
- Over two miles of HVAC duct, the distance of 17 average city blocks
- 1, 045 linear feet of sidewalk, the height of a 73-story building
- 430,000 linear feet of electrical wiring, longer than the world’s second largest bridge
- 14,300 ceiling panels, enough to cover the arena floor at Staples Center
- 56,000 concrete blocks, one for almost every seat at Dodger Stadium
- 2,000 linear feet of curb and gutter, twice the length of the Golden Gate Bridge
- 11,452 linear feet of storm/sewer, three times the depth of the ocean