University of Utah Football Stadium Reopens with MBS Flooring
In August of 2021, the University of Utah completed an $80 million expansion to their Rice-Eccles football stadium which includes new amenities such as premium seating and hospitality areas. To handle the heavy foot traffic that comes with a college football facility which also doubles as a concert venue (designed to hold over 50,000 spectators), Master Builders Solutions’ MasterTop SRS flooring was installed in the new locker rooms, concessions, restrooms, and mechanical room areas to meet the challenges of heavy use and abuse.
With its bold design, breathtaking mountain backdrop and bird’s-eye view 400 feet above downtown Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Lake, Rice-Eccles Stadium is recognized as one of the most beautiful college stadiums in the country.* It is the premiere stadium of the intermountain region, serving the six-state area of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and Nevada.
Master Buiders Solutions MasterTop SRS is perfectly suited for venues like Rice-Eccles stadium (also arenas, food & beverage processing, pharmaceuticals, retail and industrial facilities). This is an acrylic coating custom designed to protect and repair concrete floors. It features all the advantages needed by public assembly facilities, such as stain resistance, and is hygienic as it resists mold, fungi, spills and staining. For decades, it has proven a high resistance to chemical attack, impact, and abrasion, while also offering slip resistance, ease of cleaning and maintenance. Because liquids, dirt and other impurities cannot penetrate this seamless flooring system, cleaning costs are reduced.
It is also a premium solution to challenging outdoor repair and restoration needs for everything from racetracks and runways to columns, beams, and expansion joints.
MasterTop SRS offers the advantage of a one-hour cure time (even in temperatures down to -20◦ F / -29◦ C) for a significantly reduced project installation downtime. A large selection of colors and textures are available, including proprietary pigments, flake, and quartz to match the imaginations of facility’s designers. MasterTop SRS is also VOC compliant and the first flooring product in the U.S. to be NSF registered.
Such as was the case with the precise flooring requirements at Rice-Eccles stadium, MasterTop SRS comes in a broad variety of formulations to meet the individualized needs of each project environment. It creates a seamless, and dynamic flooring system that meets the needs of the moment, the facility, and the end-user.
*The stadium served as the venue for both the opening and closing ceremonies during the 2002 Winter Olympics which were watched by an estimated 3.5 billion people worldwide.
