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Geiger Engineers Page 8 Selected Tensile Membrane and Cable Structures King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 64,000 seat, Olympics-standard, soccer, track and field stadium is open with a unique "tribune" canopy covering the entire seating and concourse areas. The canopy roof, with a total 550,000 square foot area, is a single tensile membrane structure of twenty-four modules arranged in circular ring configuration with an outer diameter of 950 feet. The stadium is used for a wide variety of sporting events. The roof structure was engineered by Geiger Berger Associates. Construction Cost: $320 million Completion Date: 1985 The RCA Dome/ Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana. Home of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, the domed multi-purpose facility seats 65,000 for football. The RCA Dome can accommodate 102,000 square feet of convention space on its main activity floor, supplementing the adjacent Indiana Convention/Exposition Center. The facility has been designed to accommodate Major League Baseball. Geiger Associates engineered the long-span roof and consulted on the mechanical and electrical system design of the facility. Completion Date: 1984 Construction Cost: $65 million John A. Sibley Horticultural Center, Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Georgia. Design of a series of enclosed modular membrane tension structures to house botanical exhibitions as part of the largest resort facility in Georgia. The resort also includes golf courses; tennis courts, meeting rooms and conference facilities. Construction Cost: $4.0 million Completion Date: 1983 Haj Terminal at New Jeddah International Airport. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Haj Terminal is covered by the world's largest tensile membrane roof, covering 105 acres. This unique facility provides shelter to pilgrims arriving at Jeddah International Airport on their way to Mecca. Geiger Berger Associates consulted to the project architects and subsequently were the engineers for the fabric roof contractor, Owens Corning Contracting. Construction engineering services included the development and analysis of an erection and stressing sequence for the contractor. Construction Cost: $ 180 Million Completion Date: 1982 .

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