Lucas Oil Stadium: amazingly Flexible Venue for Indianapolis

by Tarek Ayoubi, P.E., Lee Slade, P.E. and Bart Riberich, P.E., S.E.

From the Sept./Oct. 2007 issue of Stadia

"When Lucas Oil Stadium opens in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana next year, it will be far more than a fitting home field for the Super Bowl champion Colts. It will be a new type of multi-purpose venue, effortlessly hosting a wide array of revenue-generating sports and non-sports events. In creating the distinctive structure for this facility, the engineering team drew on lessons learned on both of the previous retractable-roof NFL-capable stadia in the United States..."