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THE EDWARD JONES DOME FUN FACTS
Party at the Dome:
The Edward Jones Dome at America's Center is one of just three stadiums to offer club seats. (Atlanta's Georgia Dome and Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium are the other two.) However, the St. Louis facility is the only one of the three which has an entire concourse dedicated to its stadium club. Level 4, the Club Level, has 42,500 square feet of bars, food service and hospitality space, making it the largest stadium club in the country.
Up on the Roof:
The Edward Jones Dome's 12.5 acre roof structure is the heaviest roof assembly ever lifted in St. Louis. Seven massive structural steel roof trusses support the roof of the Dome. Five 600-foot-long trusses run east to west; two 730-foot-long trusses run north/south.
The full roof frame will weigh 10.4 million pounds...that's five thousand tons or the weight of 23 average-sized blue whales - the largest mammals on Earth. Or, the equivalent of 3,500 Lincoln Towne Cars.
It would take almost seven Scottrade Center roofs to cover the Edward Jones Dome at America's Center. Scottrade Center is the home of the St. Louis Blues NHL team.
Safety First: At full capacity of 70,000 seats, the Dome can be evacuated in 11 minutes...without the use of escalators and elevators.
Fire sprinklers are located throughout the facility along with powerful water cannons which shoot 1,000 gallons a minute and a fire-fighting pump that can push 1,500 gallons of water a minute into the building.
The Missing Link:
The Convention Center MetroLink light rail station has the ability to deliver 6,400 people during a one-hour peak period prior to an event. The station is less than 300 steps to the main entrance of the Edward Jones Dome.
Flush With Excitement:
There are 968 public toilets in the Dome - 478 for women, 481 for men, and nine family restrooms. Adding the toilets in private team, office, luxury suite, and back-of-the-house areas, the total jumps to 1,142.
And speaking of plumbing, all the plumbing pipes within the Dome, laid end-to-end, would stretch 15 miles.
It's Cool Inside:
The Edward Jones Dome's 4,800 ton capacity air conditioning system is large enough to cool 3,200 average sized homes.
Walk This Way:
You could build a five foot wide sidewalk from St. Louis to Kansas City, Kansas with the amount of concrete used in the Dome. That's 262 miles and 64,000 yards of concrete.
Rugs R Us:
Covering the floors is more than 25,000 yards of carpet - enough to cover 7.5 football fields. This does not include the "Magic Carpet" turf which glides out over the playing field surface. Here's how it works: The Magic Carpet consists of five basic components: the pit, lid, drive roll machinery, air blower system, and the hydraulic winch system. The hydraulic winches pull the Astro Turf carpet out of the pit onto the Dome floor. After use, the Astro Turf carpet is rolled up by the drive roll mechanism in the pit. The lid covering the pit is flush with the floor and can withstand 400 pounds of weight per square foot. This allows for total use of the floor by trade shows and conventions. To reduce the friction caused by dragging 100,000 pounds of carpet across the floor, a series of floor registers blows air between the floor and carpet, lifting the carpet on a cushion of air - like a Magic Carpet!
Job Security:
It would take a single person working 40 hours per week, 962 years to build the Edward Jones Dome at America's Center alone. When complete, there will have been two million work hours consumed in building the Dome.
Round Trip:
There are 14.5 million pounds of reinforcing steel in the concrete at the Edward Jones Dome. This would be the equivalent of a 12" diameter steel rod stretching from St. Louis to Seattle and back - 4,100 miles.
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