Millennium Stadium
| Location: | Cardiff, Wales |
| Brief description: | The Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park. |
| Awarding authority: | Millennium Stadium plc |
| Completion: | 1999 |
| Architect: | HOK + LOBB Sport |
| Design Engineer: | W.S. Atkins |
| Contractor: | John Laing Construction Ltd |
| Steel Constructor: | Construsioni Cimolai Armando SpA |
| Cidect member: | Corus Tubes |
Details:
This 74,500 seat-stadium boasts of being the first stadium in the UK to have a retractable roof.
8000 tonnes of structural tubular steel makes up the roof structure, which consists of two moveable 560 tonne, 80 m tubular framed sections sit onto two primary tubular trusses, each 220 m long. It has a total area of 26,862m2 of which 8,960m2 is movable.
Another 6500 tonnes of structural tubular steel was used to create the stadium stands, which equates to a total of 14,500 tonnes of Circular (CHS), Rectangular (RHS) structural hollow sections and plate.