The world’s biggest cable-stayed retractable roof

23 February 2011 - New contracts - Canada

This March, in Vancouver, Freyssinet Canada Limitée and Freyssinet International, subsidiaries of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), will finish installing the stays and suspension cables of the retractable roof of the BC Place stadium, having already been responsible for designing it, the development of the construction methods used, and procurement. Since June 2010, a total of 35 km of cables (diameter: 125 mm) has been installed, attached to 36 50 m-high masts each weighing 75 t.