Arizona Cardinals Football Stadium

Glendale, Arizona

Three years after the groundbreaking, the new Arizona Cardinals Football Stadium is nearing completion.  Heralded as one of the most significant stadiums in the country, Terracon was responsible for the design of the Keystone retaining wall system that completely encircles the service level and surrounds the outside of the stadium.  The retaining wall, up to 40 feet in height, with single and two-tier configurations, provides the grade separation from the parking lots surrounding the stadium to the playing field surface 40 feet below.  More than 130,000 square feet of the Keystone Compac II System was used in the design and construction of the retaining walls for the project.This critically-acclaimed stadium design features both a retractable roof and a retractable rolling field.  The multi-purpose stadium will have a seating capacity of over 63,000 and will include 88 luxury suites. 

Working as a team, Terracon, Superlite Block (material supplier) and Slaton Brothers Custom Retaining Walls (wall builder) provided the design-build services for the project retaining walls.  During the construction, Slaton Brothers installed the Keystone Compac II System at a 2,800 square foot per day rate. 

Key issues in the engineering analyses for the wall system performed by Terracon included the evaluation of the wall system to support significant temporary construction loading including:

·   Support of one of North America ’s largest mobile construction cranes
·   The temporary shoring used to support the placement of the concrete placed for the upper deck construction within the stadium.

The stadium is scheduled to be completed for the 2006 football season.