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• ATLANTA FALCONS NEW STADIUM DESIGN PLUS

"We’ll use about 47 percent less water, through our design of the building and our capture and re-use of rain water," Jenkins said. The stadium will also reuse rain water that the stadium collects. Its 4,000 solar panels can generate enough solar energy on its campus in a year to power over nine Falcons home games or 13 United home matches. And then whether you’re on WiFi or your on your cell phone with cellular service, we’ll have a distributed antenna system that’s throughout the building, that’ll give you great service through various carriers." It’s environmentally friendly, too. "So there’s 1,000 of them in the seating bowl and another 800 in the concourses, so no matter where you are in this building, 70-some-thousand fans will have fast, wireless connectivity. "We’ve got 1,800 wireless access points in the building," Jenkins said. In addition to free, fast WiFi throughout, the building has over 2,500 TVs, so fans won’t miss a second. It has 4,000 miles of optic fiber, powering everything at the speed of light. It’s longer than the Eiffel Tower, and then some. This halo board, dubbed as the world’s largest scoreboard, hovers above the field and provides 63,000 square feet of screen. The roof will remain closed for the beginning of the football season, but teams will later have the option to open or close it, weather permitting, per stadium execs. So we can take rain, and football season here in Atlanta is a perfect time to be outside." "We built the building to play outside, so unlike some stadiums that have retractable roofs, we really wanted to look and make this feel and act like an outdoor stadium," Jenkins said. Most of the construction was completed with the roof open. I hope the first time you're in it, yeah, you're wowed by the architecture, but more wowed by the fan experience." The roof is retractable, which caused construction delays due to its intricacy. "The architecture, I think, speaks for itself. "The building speaks for itself," Falcons CEO and president Rich McKay said in July. Walking up to it feels like you’re approaching a damn spaceship. Look, the Georgia Dome did its job for 24 years, but it wasn’t anything special. Even without that massive schedule, the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium is on a whole other level. It will play host to the 2019 Super Bowl and the 2020 Final Four, too. It’s exciting to have that as a steady part of our events that we offer." "And then just the attention that this building’s going to get, and being where we are in the south in Atlanta, which is such a football hotbed with the SEC and ACC around here. "I would venture to say we’re going to be the most visible collegiate football facility in the country this year," stadium general manager Scott Jenkins told SB Nation. Tennessee on Labor Day.īetween Bama-FSU and the three FBS postseason games, it’s entirely possible that a single new stadium is hosting four of the season’s 10 biggest games. The 2017 National Championship will be played here, too.

ATLANTA FALCONS NEW STADIUM DESIGN PLUS

The Falcons’ new digs will also put on the SEC Championship, the Peach Bowl, and December’s HBCU national championship each season, plus other neutral-site openers. The first college football game in the new stadium has been pegged as the sport’s biggest opening game ever, with No.

It’ll also play host to some of college football’s biggest games each season, starting right away in 2017. The brand new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta won’t just be the home of the Falcons and the United.