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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3492951, member: 27"] It is an interesting question. I think that picture is a little misleading. There are 64 panels in the PTFE section of the roof. Each of the 4 sections of the hard shell has 27 panels, so there are 108 total. Now, some of the hard shell panel are not the full sized rectangle formed by all 64 panels in the PTFE section, but more than half are. I am pretty sure your estimate of 2/3 is close to correct, but the other way. The hard shell section of the roof covers considerably more square feet than the PTFE section. Some comments on this picture. You can for the first time clearly see the LED lighting installed above the north and south seating areas. I have highlighted them in yellow. Also, the center hung scoreboard is supposed to be 8 sided. There will be 4 sides perpendicular to each other with a length of 62.5 feet and 4 diagonal sides on the corners (along like the shape of the dome itself), that are each 10 feet wide. It looks like they might have one side of the scoreboard in place now. Not sure where the rest of that scoreback is. Maybe it is still in North Dakota? Or somewhere en route on I90? Also, this picture confirms what I thought was the case. Those mysterious loops were only installed on the two stretches of arcs that run east-west and north-south. I think their purpose remains a mystery. They have extended the lying of the green material on at least 3 of the 4 edges where the hard shell and PTFE sections of the roof meet. Maybe it is some type of insulation designed to make those borders, identified by [USER=5058]NJCuse97[/USER] as an area of design concern, as waterproof and ice free as possible. Not sure. Can’t believe that the PTFE fabric is green.Even it it gets bleached by the sun in a couple of weeks, that just doesn’t seem like a color PTFE would be available in. Everything I read about PTFE fabric says it is usually provided in a tan color and gets bleached white by the sun. The only other color I could find it available in is black, and I would hope the new roof would not be black. The cost of cooling it would be dramatically higher if this was the case, and it would not look very good. [ATTACH type="full"]187169[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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