Montreal Olympic Stadium Retractable Roof

The roof is lowered from a 168 m high inclined tower on fully locked cables the.

Montreal olympic stadium retractable roof.

A dream team has been assembled to develop a new roof the third for montreal s star crossed big o the olympic stadium. The cost of a retractable roof on olympic stadium which will be in place when montreal hosts soccer games for the 2026 world cup will be between 200 million and 300 million. A new olympic stadium roof won t be retractable but will possibly allow in natural light according to a call for tenders released by the olympic installation board on tuesday. The 200 000 sq ft 65 tonne kevlar roof at the olympic stadium in montreal was expected to last 25 years.

The stadium in montréal is elliptical in plan and the grandstands are covered by a cantilevered concrete roof which runs around the full periphery the retractable kevlar membrane roof of the olympic stadium has an anticlastic shape with 26 suspension points and 17 edge cables anchored at the concrete roof. Olympic stadium in montreal quebec was slated to be the first outdoor retractable roof stadium at its debut for the 1976 summer olympics however plagued by construction problems the roof was not installed until 1987 and was not retractable until 1988. And the project owner the regie des. The quebec government had committed to a new 250 million roof for montreal s olympic stadium by 2023 but now officials are aiming for 2024.

Olympic stadium will have a retractable roof in time for 2026 world cup money for new olympic stadium roof won t sit well with baseball fans. Collaborating to prepare a business case for a new covering are schlaich bergermann partner sbp a german engineering firm that has designed over 60 stadium roofs. Montreal s olympic stadium will get new roof. Built in the mid 1970s as the main venue for the 1976 summer olympics it is nicknamed the big o a reference to both its name and to the doughnut shape of the permanent component of the stadium s roof.

Stade olympique is a multi purpose stadium in montreal canada located at olympic park in the hochelaga maisonneuve district of the city. Shaun best reuters the stadium aside montreal did get some bang for its.