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I enjoy watching construction projects via the webcams they have set up. I've watched several baseball and football stadium projects. Last year at this time, the Vikings new stadium was closed in and at least 1/2 of the seating installed. Their roof was finished in October and the stadium finished by June.
Construction seems to be going very slowly. The timeline has been delayed several times because the roof system designed by the architects proved difficult to engineer. The roof on Atlanta's Mercedes Benz Stadium is nowhere near finished. The main framework was finally installed and the internal supports removed in mid November. Only one part of one of the 8 retractable portions of the roof is on the roof. Some are calling the design the Silver Sphincter. Testing on the movable petals is supposed to begin in April. The display surrounding the hole in the roof needs to be installed before all of the cranes can be moved from the interior.
They have secured another venue for the soccer team. The Georgia Dome is right next to the new one and I thought the timeline called for it to be torn down to make room for parking after this season with demolition starting in March . I'm wondering if they will wait on that in case they run into problems. Anyone in Atlanta have any insight into this?
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Construction seems to be going very slowly. The timeline has been delayed several times because the roof system designed by the architects proved difficult to engineer. The roof on Atlanta's Mercedes Benz Stadium is nowhere near finished. The main framework was finally installed and the internal supports removed in mid November. Only one part of one of the 8 retractable portions of the roof is on the roof. Some are calling the design the Silver Sphincter. Testing on the movable petals is supposed to begin in April. The display surrounding the hole in the roof needs to be installed before all of the cranes can be moved from the interior.
They have secured another venue for the soccer team. The Georgia Dome is right next to the new one and I thought the timeline called for it to be torn down to make room for parking after this season with demolition starting in March . I'm wondering if they will wait on that in case they run into problems. Anyone in Atlanta have any insight into this?
http://www.earthcam.net/projects/atlantafalcons/newstadiumrwd/rwd.php?cam=cchd
http://www.earthcam.net/projects/atlantafalcons/newstadiumrwd/rwd.php?cam=cchd