Unprecedented Pact Hangs Over Stadium Job in Seattle
(Photo courtesy of Michael Dickter/Skilling Ward Magnusson Berkshire)
A megatruss redesign slashed $4 million from the cost of the grandstand roofs. An inventive use of seismic isolators sliced another $2.5 million off the budget. A tucking and reconfiguring exercise squeezed 250,000 sq ft out of the original 1.75-million-sq-ft program. At a $430-million football-soccer stadium in quake-prone Seattle, budget necessities were the mother of invention.