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Headquarters Facts
Compuware's world headquarters
- Encompasses 1.1 million square feet and 15 floors, including approximately 60,000 square feet of retail space.
- Is home to Michigan's only Hard Rock Cafe, as well as a Borders Books & Music store.
- Features a dedicated, 12-story (10 aboveground, two below) parking structure with original art by students from Detroit' s College for Creative Studies.
- Has on-site fitness, dining and daycare facilities for employees.
- Is a $400 million project.
- Is the base of operations for roughly 4,100 employees.
Measurables:
- 8,000 tons of steel form the structural skeleton of the building.
- There are 700 tons of bolts, washers and nuts holding the steel together.
- The largest piece of structural steel is more than 90 feet long and weighs 14 tons.
- The building has 280,000 square feet of glass.
- 250,000 cubic yards of material were excavated from the building site.
- 60,000 sheets of drywall have been used for the interior of the building.
- The Compuware headquarters contains more than 1,400 miles of low- and line-voltage wire. If this wire were placed end-to-end, it would stretch from the Compuware construction site to Miami, Florida.
- Nearly 1,300 drawings have been made for the project by 40 architects and engineers.
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