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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 2206031, member: 27"] This is the stadium in France I was talking about. You can take it from a 50K configuration for say a football game to a 30K configuration for say a basketball game. It takes an hour to make that change and the process is fully automated. The capacity for the lower level small configuration is flexible and can be tweaked all the way down to just over 6K. So this isn't some crazy pie in the sky thing. The technology exists and is in use every day. [MEDIA=youtube]Q7Qvq0x_FxI[/MEDIA] Stade Pierre-Mauroy has two floors or main levels. The full stadium level or [I]Grand Stade[/I]reaches a height of 31 m (101 feet) and has a total capacity of 50,186 seats including 4,965 business seats, 1,842 luxury-box seats, 448 protocol seats and 326 reserved for the press. The stadium has also a peculiarity: half of the [I]Grand Stade[/I] field is situated on hydraulics lift and massive tracks that raise and slide it above the other half of the field in three hours. This creates a second lower level floor plan and surrounding seats called [I]Boîte à Spectacles[/I], where basketball, tennis or music shows can take place. The [I]Boîte à Spectacles[/I] can be configured to have a variable capacity, from 6,900 to 30,000 seats. In November 2014, it hosted the [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Davis_Cup']2014 Davis Cup[/URL] finals between France and Switzerland, where an attendance record was broken for the highest ever officially-sanctioned competition tennis match. In addition, Stade Pierre-Mauroy has a retractable roof which opens and shuts in 15 minutes. The stadium is also recognised as a [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haute_Qualit%C3%A9_Environnementale']HQE[/URL] Building with solar panels and two windmills to provide as electrical supply. The stadium is fully accessible by metro stations and road and includes 7,000 parking spaces. It was completed in 2012. Cost was 618 million Euros, which as of today is about 690 million USD. Some money could be saved if the retractable roof was thrown out. [/QUOTE]

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