Superdome Statistics
Total Land Area: (building, garages, and grounds) 52 acres
Height: 273 feet (82.3 meters)
Diameter of Dome: 680 feet (210 meters)
Area of Roof: 9.7 acres
Interior Space: 125,000,000 cubic feet
Total square footage: 269,000 sq. ft. (82,342 sq. meters)
Main Arena: 166,180 sq. ft. (50,685 sq. meters)
Convention Concourse: 76,711 sq. ft. (8,261 sq. meters)
Concrete: 169,000 cubic yards (131,820 cubic meters)
Structural Steel: 20,000 tons (18,200 metric tons)
Air Conditioning: 9,000 tons (8,190 metric tons)
Meeting Rooms (200 Loge Level): Four 19,000 square foot quadrant rooms (each divisible into 6 individual rooms, 28 smaller reception rooms)
Rest rooms: 102 (51 women's & 51 men's)
Private Box Suites: 137
Parking Capacity: 5,000 cars & 250 buses
Air Conditioning: 9,000 tons
Lighting: 19,507 fixtures utilizing 27,869 lamps
Video System: 2 DiamondVision panels, each 28'7"x 36'3"
Scoreboards: 4 message/scoreboards, each 8'x 88' 2 out-of-town scoreboards, each 4.5'x 46'
Electrical Wiring: 400 miles (640 kilometers), including fiber optic lines
Anodized Aluminum Siding: more than 550,000 sq. ft.
Escalators: 42
Elevators: 14 (9 passenger & 5 freight )
Maximum Seating Capacity: football 69,703, expanded football 72,003, arena concerts 20,000, basketball 55,675, baseball 63,525
Press Seating: 334 (football & baseball press boxes, and 11 broadcast/spotting booths).
Artificial Turf: Momentum by SportExe, installed July 2004
Remember that Far Side cartoon of the two polar bears standing over an igloo saying "these things are amazing, soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside"
How many diving boards?
People are bringing bags of food & clothing with them....is there a water tank in there so they will have drinking water? What about toilets? How long after this hits until supplies could be airlifted in?
Rest rooms in the Superdome: 102 (51 women's & 51 men's)
Hmmm. If 14,000 folks are let in, that is 137 persons per rest room. If 40,000 "guests" are let in, that is 392 per rest room. Will they have enough toilet paper and paper towels? Where will they take the paper waste to when the dome is surrounded with water? Where will the waste go when everything else is under water?
Not a place I'd want to be.