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it’s remarkable. Their structure is ‘brief,’ you don’t get the feeling they’re a heavy structure. I really appreciate the look of them. Their structure dominates the architecture. And they look really sharp when they’re stacked up on one end.” The seats in the stadium are also architecturally interesting. Instead of being bolted to the stadium, the seats are attached to a four-inch steel rail that is bolted to the stadium. This design element allows the number of seats in a row to be altered, and is one of the ways the stadium will be able to hold a max crowd of 100,000. By sliding all of the seats just a little bit closer, they can ﬁt an extra seat (and sometimes two) per row. To stay on their tight schedule of 500 seats a day, the rail installers had to drill a hole every 10 seconds. In order to do that most efﬁciently, they customized their drills to do two holes at once. Once the rail was in place, they were able to attach 72 seats per minute. It’s been said that Cowboys Stadium is the most accessible stadium in the NFL, and that is due, in large part, to the many suites (360 on ﬁve different levels), and in particular, the ﬁeld level suites. “That’s very unusual,” said Jack Hill, formerly the Director of Stadium Construction for Blue Star Development and now the Stadium General Manager. “You’ll see some in Seattle and Indianapolis on the end zone, but nowhere else has anyone taken the concept of a ﬁeld suite and done it all the way around.” On their way to the ﬁeld, the players will walk through one of the club spaces, close enough for those in the bar to reach out and Special Advertising Supplement to Texas Construction 27
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