Mortenson Tops Out U.S. Bank Stadium

Mortenson Construction, the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority and the Minnesota Vikings recently celebrated the topping out of U.S. Bank Stadium on the downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota construction site.

More than 11,000 tons of steel help make up the new U.S. Bank Stadium roof, including the 989 foot-long, 1,700 ton ridge truss, which stands 214 feet above the playing field. One hundred forty ironworkers from LeJeune Steel Company, Danny's Construction and Iron Workers Local 512 worked 240,000 hours on the roof steel of the building. Today's milestone comes 21 months from groundbreaking and on the date it was scheduled more than two years ago. The project is nearly 75 percent complete and will be finished in July 2016.

Speakers at the event included John Wood, senior vice president of Mortenson, Mark Wilf, owner/president of the Minnesota Vikings, Michele Kelm-Helgen, chair of the MSFA and Minnesota Lt. Governor Tina Smith. Attendees were invited to sign the steel beam before it was lifted and installed in the stadium's roof.

Construction of the 65,000-seat, 1.7-million-square-foot U.S. Bank Stadium is being managed by Mortenson Construction and project associate Thor Construction. It will be owned and operated by the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority and home to the Minnesota Vikings.