"The largest roof job in American construction history"

July 20, 2006 1:41 PM

"The largest roof job in American construction history" The Louisiana Superdome -- one of the more iconic symbols of last year's Katrina damage, temporary home to thousands of displaced New Orleanians and the semi-permanent home to the NFL Saints -- has a shiny new roof. I hope they won't need another one for a long, long time.
posted by diastematic (7 comments total)

pix?
posted by thirteenkiller at 2:08 PM on July 20, 2006

Apologies for the photo-hungry, the link was to the Times-Picayune story itself. The top-two in these Flickr results are very recent.
posted by diastematic at 2:15 PM on July 20, 2006

But what about the first time the roof was built, was that not considered a 'roof job'? that would make this job a tie for the largest roof job, competing with itself.

maybe i am missing something and 'roof job' really means getting a hand job on a roof. yes, in that case, i am with the killer of thirteen.



pix?
posted by nearo at 5:04 PM on July 20, 2006

no it would be larger because they had to tear down the remains THEN reinstall...so it was more work. Yeah..that's gotta be it.
posted by evilelvis at 5:05 PM on July 20, 2006

Well presumably largest in terms of budget, manpower, schedule, no? They had to rip up 450,000 sq ft opf existing roof in 180 days.
posted by jamesonandwater at 8:21 PM on July 20, 2006

I hope they remembered to clean it inside first.
posted by youlikeme at 5:38 PM on July 21, 2006

Well, it's not completely unreasonable to consider the construction of a new roof on a new building not to be a "roof job".
posted by baylink at 4:34 PM on July 22, 2006