Coliseum Comeback

Following a $60-million repair project carried on for several months, 24 hours a day, by a work force numbering as high as 1,200, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is ready to reopen, a symbol of recovery from the Jan. 17 Northridge earthquake. *The Damage This section is representative of the severe damage sustained throughout the facility. Seating separation and uplift Cracked tunnels Cracked and subsided concourse Superstructure separated from outer wall Cracked columns Fractured beams *The Repairs Scores of anchoring piles were driven 90 feet into the earth and 56 massive A-beams were added as seismic reinforcing. Thousands of cracks in the concrete were repaired with high-pressure structural epoxy. Seating bowl Tunnel Concourse Anchoring pile Support wall Reinforcing beam Rim wall Shear wall A-frame *What’s New Remodeled concession stands and restrooms served by 15 miles of new plumbing. Power supplied by 3 new DWP substations delivered through 247 miles of new electric lines. Video boards, the largest in the country. Field lights and poles. Landscaped berm. 3 new escalators. Exterior food court. *Peristyle Preservation Refurbished torch. Shear walls in central arch. Replaced video and scoreboards. Roof thickened with reinforced concrete. Hollowed columns supported with reinforced concrete. End building walls thickened. Sources: Don Webb, Cordell Corp.; HNTB Corp.; Nabih Youssef & Associates.