The reuse of eight original long-sp...

The reuse of eight original long-span house trusses to expand the Greensboro (NC) War Memorial Coliseum intricate web did not constitute recycling in the understanding in which environmentalists usually think about it. on the contrary it provided benefits for the devise as well as challenges for the designers and contractors who execut it. (An accompanying story describes the size to which scrap is recycl to make just discovered steel.)

The $46 million Greensboro plan expanded the coliseum's seating capacity from 16000 to 23500 and the size of an adjoining special facts center from 60,000 square feet