Record-Topping Football Venue is About Outpacing The Joneses
Never mind the whopping 2.7-million-sq-ft area, 1,225-ft-long steel arches, 25,000-sq-ft center-hung video board, 120-ft-tall movable end-zone walls and nearly $1.1-billion cost. The wildest statistic for builders of the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium in Arlington, Texas, is a mere 23.9°.
That’s the maximum curved slope for the design’s biparting roof panels and the genesis of the job’s myriad hill-climbs.