Hartford Civic Center Roof Collapse 1978

On january 18 1978 at about 4 20 in the morning the hartford civic center roof collapsed.

Hartford civic center roof collapse 1978. Faulty design was ultimately ruled as the culprit. On january 18 1978 the civic center roof collapsed six hours after the university of connecticut defeated the university of massachusetts 56 49. Just hours earlier some 5000 fans had left after watching a basketball game. Remarkably no one was hurt.

Only six hours earlier five thousand people had been in the arena watching a basketball game. At approximately 4 15 a m. About six hours later in the early morning of january 18 the roof of the sports coliseum collapsed onto 10 000 empty stadium seats. 18 1978 the roof of the hartford civic center collapsed under the weight of heavy snow and ice.

Ten days of bad weather coupled with a snowstorm the prior evening were responsible for the weighty accumulation of snow and ice that led to the rooftop s failure. On january 17 1978 the roof of the hartford civic center arena collapsed. The roof of the coliseum at the hartford civic center had collapsed under the weight of the snow. In the early morning hours of jan.

It collapsed into the arena below with a. No one was in the building and no one was injured. The arena roof was a 90 by 110 meter space frame levy and salvadori 1992 kaminetzky 1991 feld and carper 1997. Mere hours after housing a sold out university of connecticut men s basketball game a the hartford civic center collapsed after days of heavy snowfall.