Mellon Arena Retractable Roof

The freight elevator rises slowly climbing to the top level at sofi stadium this is the part of the new nfl venue under construction in inglewood where kevin demoff gets excited.

Mellon arena retractable roof. It also played host to the. At the time of its completion pittsburgh s mellon arena was hailed as an engineering marvel. A total of 42 trucks mounted on 78 wheels 30 of which were individually driven supported and moved the six moveable sections. It kept that record until the houston astrodome was built three years later.

Construction of the civic auditorium. Sofi stadium is an unprecedented and unparalleled sports and entertainment destination being built in inglewood ca by los angeles rams owner chairman e. No copyright infrengement intended. Built in the early 1960s for pittsburgh s civic light opera it was the first stadium arena to have a retractable roof and was the home of the penguins from 1967 to 2010.

It was constructed with just shy of 3 000 tons of steel manufactured in the city of pittsburgh. The arena which covered 170 000 square feet had the first retractable roof ever on a major sports venue in the world. Construction of the civic arena began on april 25 1958. Originally budgeted to cost 19 million it would take 40 months to construct.

Six of the sections could fold underneath two in two and one half minutes making the mellon arena the world s first major indoor sports stadium with a retractable roof. No freestanding retractable steel dome had ever been attempted in america and for years the mellon arena stood as the only extant example. Rip civic arena all items pictures songs etc go to their respective owners. A change in the plans to make the roof retractable drove the price tag to 21 7 million.

The mellon arena was the first retractable dome and it was the largest dome in the world at the time it was built.