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EGAN COMPANY ELECTS VICE PRESIDENT

Saturday, August 1st, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (August 1, 2020) – Egan Company, a Brooklyn Park specialty contractor and systems integrator, announced the promotion of Ryan Woodruff to Vice President. In this senior leadership role, Woodruff is responsible for overseeing business operations and direction for Egan’s InterClad (curtainwall/glazing/metal panels) business.

“Ryan’s attention to operations and processes, aligned with his hands-on leadership style to help others, lead by example, and develop the skills of employees, has been a great asset to Egan,” said Duane Hendricks, Egan Company President & CEO. “In the last year and a half, he has connected well with his team and has taken on the full responsibility of the InterClad business, financials, staff, and operations which includes projects, the shop, and the office.”

Woodruff joined Egan in early 2019 with over 20 years of experience in the curtainwall and glass industry. He was previously a Branch Manager for Forman Ford, managing locations in Omaha, Neb. and Des Moines, Iowa. In addition to numerous Iowa State University projects, Woodruff’s leadership on large and local projects includes the Rafter Apartments, Allianz Field, MCTC Skyway Renovation, and Scheels in Eden Prairie Center. He attended Upper Iowa University in Des Moines, Iowa.

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal highlighted Woodruff’s promotion in its People on the Move feature.

About Egan Company
Egan Company is a privately-owned, specialty contractor providing building trades to general contractors, engineers, building owners, property managers, and facility engineers. Specialties include: electrical, mechanical, curtainwall/glazing/metal panels (InterClad), millwrights, building technology, controls and system integration, and 24/7 service. Egan serves every stage of a building and provides in-house expertise in planning, design and engineering, construction, and maintenance.

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Media Contact:
Angela Schmidt
arschmidt@eganco.com  //  763-504-3471

Minnesota Senate Building Gains National Recognition

Friday, August 4th, 2017

The Minnesota Senate Building in St. Paul, Minn. was awarded a 2017 National Award of Merit by the Design-Build Institute of America for its exemplary application of the Design/Build project delivery method.

In partnership with Mortenson Construction, Egan Company’s InterClad team provided exterior and interior scopes for this new facility for the State of Minnesota, including curtainwall, aluminum entrances, metal panels, sunshades, glass handrails, glass panels, and stainless steel column covers.

Bringing fans to their feet

Monday, October 3rd, 2016

Towering nearly 30 stories high and covering about 200,000 square feet of the stadium’s exterior, the reflective glass and curtainwall of U.S. Bank Stadium is hard to miss. The interior boasts a flood of purple and gold, lush green turf, and multiple LED video boards. Football fans will be able to experience this all firsthand during the Minnesota Vikings’ first season at the new stadium.

The 1.75 million square foot facility will serve as the Minnesota Vikings’ official home, and also stands as a testament to the hard work of thousands of people, including Egan employees, who worked on site and behind the scenes to install the stadium’s curtainwall, glass/glazing, pivoting glass doors, and numerous LED displays inside and out.

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Reflection of Our Work

The curtainwall boasts five operable walls/pivot doors spanning up to 95 feet high and controlled by hydraulic levers. These doors are able to shield spectators from harsh Minnesota weather when closed, while providing fresh air and exposure to the outdoors when open. Built into these doors are smaller storefronts – 10 for every larger door – which allow entry in all seasons.

In addition to installing 200,000 square feet of curtainwall, more than 5,000 pieces of glass were installed, some spanning over 200 feet tall and inverted at a 24 degree angle.

On sunny days, a distinct reflection of the Minneapolis skyline can be seen on the glass’ surface. Not only does the stadium show a mirror image of one of Minnesota’s most iconic cities, its unique architecture and design also serves as a reflection of the personality and identity of the community that surrounds it.

Engineering challenges related to the unique geometry of the curtainwall required careful consideration and planning throughout the project; scheduling and jobsite limitations made the role of prefabrication and coordination even more critical.

“The Vikings stadium has more unique geometry than we’d seen on past projects, and to a larger scale,” said Deb Linquist, Egan Company Senior Project Manager. “Through our quality control process, and our upfront work in the office, it was very critical that we provided proper fabrication packages with dimensions and details to the shop.”

The hard work paid off – Egan’s InterClad team won Glass Magazine’s Most Innovative Curtainwall Project for the stadium in July 2016.

Display of Collaboration

Inside the stadium, fans can watch 60-foot tall football players bound across an enormous video board more than 8,100 square feet in size. The display is the stadiums’ largest, and the tenth largest scoreboard in the NFL. At 68 feet high and 120 feet wide that’s enough space to park about one-and-a-half F-22 fighter jets.

Unlike other stadiums around the country, U.S. Bank Stadium does not have video boards hanging from the ceiling. Doing so would have compromised the amount of natural light and the indoor-outdoor feel the stadium provides.

Instead, they are installed significantly lower than most video boards in the NFL in order to allow fans to easily look from the field to the board, regardless of where they are sitting.

Partnering with Ssail LED video boardouth Dakota-based Daktronics, Egan installed more than 25,000 square feet of LED displays, including 19 LED video displays with 13HD technology that provides crisper and more vibrant images to the fans. The total square footage of LED displays is the most in the NFL.

In addition to the interior displays, Egan installed an outdoor marquee display, and a first-of-its-kind sail-shaped exterior video display that tops what the Minnesota Vikings call the “Legacy Ship.”

Our Stadium

The largest public works project in Minnesota history, U.S. Bank Stadium took 3.5 million man hours to complete – a massive undertaking equivalent to 1,700 years of full time work for one person. Throughout its construction, the project sustained the families of thousands of workers – and will help define the Minneapolis skyline for years to come.

It has helped bring major events to our state, including superstar concerts, charitable events, and Super Bowl LII in 2018. And many local restaurants and businesses now have the opportunity to provide their goods to a new audience base.

Take the “bank” out of U.S. Bank Stadium and you get a building named for us – not just the Vikings, or even the workforce that came together to turn the stadium into a reality, but all Minnesotans – and you don’t have to be a football fan to appreciate that.

Project Team: Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, M.A. Mortenson Construction, Daktronics

Services Provided: Curtainwall, glass/glazing, and communication and electrical systems for electronic video displays.

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