ATLANTA, GA — DPR Construction and Georgia Tech (GT) recently celebrated the topping out of GT Athletics Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center. The 100,000-square-foot facility will serve as a hub for GT's student-athletes, with areas dedicated to strength and conditioning, sports medicine, mental health services, and nutrition, as well as expanded and enhanced meeting and office space exclusive to Georgia Tech football. The Fanning Center will also be equipped with Georgia Tech's first-ever sports science lab, which will use pro-model motion tracking to capture student-athletes’ performance data that will feed into an in-house data analytics office for performance tracking and analysis.

Designed by The S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM) and being constructed by DPR, the design and development of the Fanning Center highlights sustainability. In addition to energy-reducing strategies, steel from the portion of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field’s upper deck — which was demolished to make room for the Fanning Center — was repurposed into the new structure. Cross-laminated mass timber will also be featured throughout the facility, reducing the carbon footprint. DPR Project Executive and GT men's basketball player, Brian Oliver, was among the speakers at the ceremony as members of GT’s athletics staff and the DPR project team signed the building’s final steel beam before it was lifted into place. The Fanning Center is on schedule to open in spring 2026.