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Old Posted Nov 26, 2009, 1:55 AM
fenwick16 fenwick16 is offline
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Originally Posted by Phalanx View Post
Out of curiosity, do you know anything about the construction of BMO Field? I'm curious if they used an all steel system or not. I know the decking is metal of some sort. I'm just wondering because of the trouble they had with it shaking itself apart.
I remember hearing on the Toronto news that some of the bolts had to be tightened because they were coming loose. Didn't sound like a major problem. I have been in Camden Yards in Baltimore for a baseball game and the section that I was in was steel.

It would make sense to me to have a sunken bowl made of concrete so that it will be a retaining wall for the dirt/gravel of the sunken bowl and then have a second tier above ground of steel framing.