Football Stadium Roof Structure

The role of concrete in stadium construction.

Football stadium roof structure.

Stadiums that cover both spectators and playing field. Stadiums designed for field sports such as baseball and any of a wide variety of football codes and or athletics track and field. We work with industry leading architects developers and general contractors to produce some of the most iconic stadiums around the world. Concrete plays a critical role in the design and construction of the modern sports stadium.

Cox architecture and arup engineers employed what they call a bioframe design for the stadium s roof a series of geodesic domes made up of rigid triangular components which covers most of the. From this are suspended 28 ribbons on which lattice frame. The kibbie dome opened 49 years ago as an outdoor concrete football stadium in october 1971 built on the same site of the demolished wooden neale stadium 1937 68 seen in this early 1950s photo following the 1974 football season a barrel arched roof and vertical end walls were added in ten months and the stadium re opened as an enclosed facility in september 1975. It consists of an external vertically undulating pressure ring.

Tennis stadiums a traditional outdoor sport but with a much smaller playing area only domed and retractable roof stadiums are included i e. Opened in 2009 the retractable roof 292 feet above the field uses two arches to give at t stadium the world s longest single span roof structure at 660 800 square feet. The steel roof structure of the stadium has a diameter of 157 meters. The structure weighs approximately 2 2 million pounds 1 000 t and displays over 80 million pixels.

Rob jefferies getty images. Residents in mckinney tx recently voted to approve funding for the construction of a 12 000 seat football stadium at an estimated cost of 70 million. Fabritec structures designs engineers and installs tensile membrane structure canopies roof structures and etfe building envelopes for stadiums.