Hartford Civic Center Roof

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Hartford civic center roof. At 4 19am on january 18 1978 downtown hartford narrowly missed being the site of one of the deadliest disasters in american history when the entire roof of the hartford civic center arena covering an area of nearly 2 5 acres and weighing 1 400 tons suddenly collapsed onto a coliseum of 10 000 empty seats. In the early morning of january 18 1978 the weight of snow from the day s heavy snowstorm caused the civic center s roof to collapse. It is owned by the city of hartford and operated by global spectrum under contract with the connecticut development authority cda. Audience 2 shnid 124542 recorded by.

Only six hours earlier five thousand people had been in the arena watching a basketball game. 18 1978 the roof of the hartford civic center collapsed under the weight of heavy snow and ice. On january 17 1978 the roof of the hartford civic center arena collapsed. 18 under a heavy blanket of ice and snow the huge flat roof of the two year old hartford civic center s coliseum collapsed at 4 15 this morning raining havoc on the 70 million.

Faulty design was ultimately ruled as the culprit. Mac nakamichi dr 1 grace design lunatec v3 pre only korg mr 1000 dsf 1 bit 5 6448 mhz stereo korg mr 1000 korg audiogate wav 24 96. In the early morning hours of jan. The arena roof was a 90 by 110 meter space frame levy and salvadori 1992 kaminetzky 1991 feld and carper 1997.

It collapsed into the arena below with a. At approximately 4 15 a m. Designed and tested with a complex computer program the unique structure consisted of unusual pyramidal trusses and was supported by just four columns in order to provide an unobstructed view for every spectator. The day the roof collapsed there were odd little premonitions the day before the roof of the hartford civic center coliseum collapsed under the weight of a heavy snowstorm 20 years ago.

As originally built in 1975 it seated 10 507 for hockey and served as the home of the then new england whalersfor three years. On january 18 1978 the civic center roof collapsed six hours after the university of connecticut defeated the university of massachusetts 56 49.