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    The document summarizes details about the new Dallas Cowboys stadium under construction, including: - The fixed roof is 95% complete and retractable roof panels are 50% complete, allowing the entire playing field to be seen once open. - A massive 1.2 million pound, $40 million video board will hang from the arches 90 feet above the field. - There will be approximately 15,000 premium club seats across multiple levels with food/bar services, as well as over 300 luxury suites. - Construction requires meticulous scheduling coordination with up to 1,800 workers on site at peak.

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    The document summarizes details about the new Dallas Cowboys stadium under construction, including: - The fixed roof is 95% complete and retractable roof panels are 50% complete, allowing the entire playing field to be seen once open. - A massive 1.2 million pound, $40 million video board will hang from the arches 90 feet above the field. - There will be approximately 15,000 premium club seats across multiple levels with food/bar services, as well as over 300 luxury suites. - Construction requires meticulous scheduling coordination with up to 1,800 workers on site at peak.

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    DALLAS.

    qxd:Layout 1 1/19/09 11:17 AM Page 98

    DALLAS COWBOYS STADIUM

    shoring towers and support footings out ter-hung video board. Manufactured by glass front, full-service areas, integrated
    of the center bowl to continue work on the Mitsubishi, the 1.2-million-pound, $40 state-of-the-art technology packages, fully
    lower bowl, which completed late in the million scoreboard will hang from the upholstered theater-style box seats, full-
    summer of 2008. arches 90 feet above the field, and stretch size refrigerators and Internet access.
    between the 20 yard lines, meaning the Currently, about 30 percent of the
    Making Progress sideline boards will span 60 yards. construction crew consists of the elec-
    Capform Inc. was responsible for the Comprised of four individual boards, trical/mechanical/plumbing subcontrac-
    structural formwork erection and place- two will face the end zones and two will tors who are completing massive duct-
    ment of the concrete and all horizontal face the sidelines, giving fans a close-up work installations and connection of
    elements, including the raker beams. view of the field from all areas of the electrical equipment, Hill notes.
    In early December, the fixed roof was stadium.
    95 percent complete, and the retractable Additionally, the new stadium will fea- Managing the Project
    roof panels were 50 percent complete ture club seating on multiple levels. There Hill says managing the purchasing and
    on the east and west ends of the stadi- will be approximately 15,000 of the premi- delivery of materials was made easier
    um. When the two 63,000-square-foot um seats in the stadium. by working with those in the industry
    panels are open, the entire playing field Fans sitting in these sections will also that were familiar with constructing
    can be seen through the opening direct- have access to clubs on the Field Level, sporting venues. “We started the job
    ly above. Hall of Fame Level, Main Concourse when the market was volatile, so one of
    The two bi-parting mechanized roof and Silver Levels, where full food and the things we did was procure the con-
    panels move by way of a first-of-its- bar services will be provided. There is crete and steel before the design was
    kind rack-and-pinion drive system. more than 200,000 square feet of club finished, and we committed to making
    The roof’s 128 motors power a pinion space, the largest of which are the two sure the subcontracting trades would
    system that send the panels down a rack main concourse clubs. have manpower to meet the schedule
    that is attached to the trusses. It will take The stadium will also feature more and from a procurement standpoint,”
    approximately 12 minutes for the roof to than 300 luxury suites located on five he notes.
    open or close. separate levels. The project – which has as many as
    In the center of the stadium, the Each suite will be equipped with its 1,800 workers on site – requires meticu-
    Cowboys will add a one-of-a-kind cen- own private restroom, fully retractable lous scheduling coordination, Hill says. ■

    98 ■ WWW.CONSTRUCTION-TODAY.COM ■ FEBRUARY 2009

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