Tuesday, September 18

Big...really big

I'm doing some work for Caterpillar in East Peoria. One of the buildings we're working in has 1,231,000 square feet under roof. Another building has 841,000 square feet. They both have close to a mile long perimeter each. Those are really big buildings.





If you total it all up, Caterpillar has around 5,100,000 square feet of building space on their East Peoria campus.

For comparison, the average U.S. home is 2,500 square feet. Caterpillar could fit 2,040 average size homes inside the buildings in East Peoria.

It makes for a lot of walking when you're following Natural Gas piping all over the campus. :-)

3 comments:

Traever Guingrich said...

gotta love big yellow

ajp said...

Dude, you should get a Segway...you would be the stud vrooming around the place with a saftey helmet on your head.

Luke said...

A.P.: Heck yes I should! There are a ton of golf cart thingy's already. They'd all be jealous.