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Structure-ID: s0002408
Created on: 11/21/01
Modified on: 02/28/07


Millennium Stadium

Completed in: 1999
Status: in use
Location: Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Millennium Stadium
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Structural Type:
Cable-supported structure
Function / usage:
Stadium / Arena
Part of: Olympic Summer Games 2012

Persons involved with this structure
Legend: Phase of works
RoleNamePart of structure 
Design manager/project supervisor Peter Randles

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RoleNamePart of structure 
Architecture Lobb Partnership
Structural engineering WS Atkins & Partners Overseas
Structural design WS Atkins & Partners Overseas
Main contractor John Laing Construction
Stay cables Freyssinet International
Formwork Deutsche Doka Schalungstechnik GmbH

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DescriptionValue
Construction materials used
cables  steel
truss  steel
Dimensions
  tower height 87 m
  seats 73 500
roof   weight 9 000 t

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External LinkWikipedia: Millennium Stadium English

Relevant Literature
* Freyssinet cable-stayed structures, Freyssinet International, Vélizy-Villacoublay (France) , 2004; pp. 37.
* Jones, David   Stade Millennium de Cardiff, presented at La technique française du béton. The first fib Congress. Osaka, Japan - AFGC - 2002.

 
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