Geiger Engineers, consulting to Birdair, Inc., provided the structural and envelope engineering for the design-build roof replacement for the Talisman Centre, one of the largest multi-use enclosed sports and recreational facilities in North America. The original Teflon-...
Tensile Membrane
The Virginia Center is an urban park in downtown Reno on the Truckee River. Geiger Engineers designed the 19,000 ft2 cable stayed canopy which shades an ice rink in winter and a 3,500 seat ampitheater in summer. The canopy's tensile membrane panels are supported by a...
This state of the art track and field facility replaced the aging Downing Stadium on Randall's Island, across the East River from Manhattan. The new facility seats 5,000 and includes press and media facilities, club and officials' offices. A lightweight canopy covers...
Geiger Engineers were the structural engineers for the fabric roof replacement of the Canada Place roof over the BC Trade and Convention Centre. The fabric roof covers 9,000 m2, with 52m spans.
Geiger Engineers were the structural engineers for the Seoul World Cup Stadium's 40,890 m2 (440,179ft2) roof canopy. The tensile membrane and glass canopy is supported on 16 masts and covers 65,000 seats. The canopy structure is a unique spatial network of truss members...
Geiger Engineers designed a distinctive tensile membrane canopy roof for this 5,000 seat amphiteater in downtown Cleveland. Twin, slanted center masts work in concert with perimeter struts and tie-down cables to support a double-layer tensile membrane canopy roof...
The seven acre air-supported membrane roof on the Metrodome, home of the Minnesota Vikings, was replaced with new teflon coated fiberglass panels. This large re-roofing project was completed ahead of schedule and in less than a five month time frame. As the Engineer of...
BC Place Stadium, the first domed stadium in Canada, has undergone a dramatic transformation, the key to which is a new retractable roof. The 60,000 seat multipurpose stadium had its air-supported roof decommissioned immediately following the 2010 Winter Olympics for...
Geiger Engineers was the Engineer for a design /build replacement of the roof on the Dedmon Center, a multipurpose athletic and recreation fieldhouse on the Radford University campus. The air-supported roof on the 50,000 ft2 field house was decommissioned and replaced...