CLIEN T Iglesia Ni Cristo, Church of Christ ARCHI T EC T Populous PROJECT VALUE $150 million DUR AT I O N Completed 2013 SERVICES PROVIDED BY BURO HAPPO LD Structural engineering, building services engineering With room for 50,000 spectators and 5,000 performers, this state of the art arena on the outskirts of Manila is the largest capacity enclosed stadium in the world. BuroHappold Engineering was appointed as structural and building services engineers for this ambitious project. Our first challenge came in designing a vast stadium roof spanning 165m in its shortest direction, which had to endure some of the most severe earthquakes and typhoons in the world. The seismicity of the region is such that, during a tremor, equivalent lateral loads generated can be up to 40

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