Keeping with the theme of the Nazi Atlantic wall construction of KU Memorial Stadium - something that even the unknowing construction eye would immediately pick up on.
The old girl proved not to be a soft underbelly, but rather a tough old gut in the demo process.
The amount of reinforced concrete in that ol' gal ... Someone said, and I admittedly have not confirmed it, that it was more concrete than was used in the Hoover Dam.
Admire that someone's ambition, but no. The amount in Memorial was maybe 1-2 days' worth of concrete placed at Hoover. They were running concrete continuously 12 hours a day for a couple years with only Christmas and Thanksgiving off in general. In another measure, the amount of concrete in Hoover Dam would cover a football field to a height greater than the original World Trade Center Towers.
had to fact check this and yes, the amt of concrete in the hoover dam, if poured in the dimensions of an american football field, would still soar 269 ft taller than the WTC (which is 1776 ft tall)
*this is assuming the the cubic yardage of all the rebar in both scenarios would be offset each other just to keep things apples to apples
**but with the way the youngsters these days cut corners, i think its fair to say that if the hoover dam was built today by today's standards that it would probably use roughly the same amt of concrete as ku memorial stadium, i think that's a fair assumption.
