Vital Statistics:

• Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  Completion Date: 1992
  Cost: $214 million
  Diameter: 840 feet
  Type: Cable-supported roof (tensegrity)
  Purpose: Recreational
  Materials: Steel, Teflon-coated Fiberglas
  Engineer(s): Matthys Levy; Weidlinger Associates
  

   

  Fast Facts:

  • The Georgia Dome contains 110,000 cubic yards of concrete, enough to build a sidewalk from Atlanta to Cincinnati.
  • The dome is as tall as a 29-story building, as tall as an average redwood tree, and three feet taller than the United States Capitol building.
  • At a rate of 750,000 gallons of water per second, Niagara Falls would take 12 minutes to fill the Georgia Dome.

The Georgia Dome contains 8,300 tons of reinforced steel -- more than the weight of iron and steel used in the Eiffel Tower.