Facility Description:
This multi-purpose stadium located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, opened in August 2017 as a replacement for the Georgia Dome. It serves as the home stadium of the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL) and Atlanta United FC of Major League Soccer (MLS). The stadium is owned by the state government of Georgia through the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, and operated by AMB Group, the parent organization of the Falcons and Atlanta United FC. The total cost of its construction was estimated at $1.5 billion.
Timberlake & Dickson Scope:
Timberlake & Dickson furnished a total of six (6) crossflow cooling towers for the nearly 6,000-ton central plant, as well as over one hundred Yaskawa variable frequency drives from Yaskawa to serve the facility’s motor driven HVAC equipment.
Notable facts:
Mercedes-Benz Stadium’s roof has eight moving panels weighing approximately 500 tons each. These panels, called petals, move in straight lines when they open and close. The petals have 4,000 tons of steel.