New Cowboys Stadium Drives Economy in North Texas
Cowboys Stadium puts the power of engineering excellence on world display.
The structure will serve as a regional economic engine that will pay for itself 7 to 16 times over during the next 30 years while enhancing the value of one of the world’s premier sports franchises.
The engineers blended experience and creativity to establish numerous world and industry “firsts”:
- The world’s longest single-span roof structure at 1225 ft;
- The world’s largest roof-hung HD video display board;
- The world’s largest operable glass doors;
- Operable roof panels that traverse the steepest incline of any North American retractable stadium;
- A first-of-its-kind rack-and-pinion roof drive system;
- One of the world’s first installations of a Teflon® (PTFE)-coated fiberglass tensile membrane with a photo catalytic titanium dioxide coating that breaks down dirt through sunlight, actually cleaning the roof automatically.
The Cowboys Stadium Project was designed by Walter P Moore based in Houston,
Texas. This project was a gold medal winner in the 2010 Texas
CEC Engineering Excellence Awards Competition.