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Steel Structure Trivia: Super Bowl Stadium

Steel Structure Trivia: Super Bowl Stadium

Houston’s NRG Stadium (formerly Reliant Stadium) will play host to Super Bowl 51 next Sunday, February 5. When it opened in 2002, this 1,900,000-sq.-ft stadium was the largest in the NFL and also the league’s first facility to have a retractable roof, made possible by innovative engineering and an efficient steel structural system that is based around two large super-trusses that span along either sideline of the field. (Photo courtesy of Birdair)

January 27 2017

Our January trivia question is:

How many acres does the retractable roof structure span at NRG Stadium?

Answer:

The correct answer is 4 acres. Congratulations to our winner: Mounir Matta, structural design manager - building projects at Lusail Real Estate Development Company!

You can test your steel structure knowledge right here on our MSC website on the last Friday of each month, where a new trivia question will be posted to the News section. Our next challenge will posted on Friday, February 24 at noon CT.

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