The new Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) began accepting passengers in California’s Orange County this week, and the building’s grand opening will take place this weekend.
The 68,000-sq.-ft transportation hub in downtown Anaheim provides multimodal transit services for rail, bus and roadway throughout Orange County. The building features a Metrolink/Amtrak concourse bridge and houses a grand hall as well as ticketing and retail space beneath an open steel structure.
Tubular steel creates criss-crossing lines for the station’s dome, forming diamond shapes that are filled with ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) plastic cushions to let in daylight; the largest installation of ETFE membrane pillows in North America. Beck Steel Inc. in Lubbock, Texas (an AISC Member and AISC Certified fabricator) was the project’s steel contractor.
The $188-million transportation center is expected to serve 10,000 commuters a day.
For more information about the project, visit www.articinfo.com.