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Aggie Practice Canopy Wasn’t Built To Code
The design of Texas A&M’s tent-like athletic complex is flawed and similar to that of the Dallas Cowboy’s practice facility that collapsed earlier this year, an engineering firm says.
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DALLAS (November 4, 2009)--An engineering firm hired by Texas A&M University to study its tent-like athletic practice complex says the facility wasn't built to withstand the maximum winds prescribed by the building code.
The analysis by the Houston structural engineering firm Haynes Whaley Associates suggests that the McFerrin Athletic Center was built according to a flawed design similar to that of the Cowboys' practice facility, which collapsed earlier this year.
Summit Structures LLC of Allentown, Pa built both facilities.
Documents obtained by The Associated Press under the Texas Public Information Act show that Haynes Whaley believed the McFerrin Center couldn't withstand the 90 mph winds specified by national standards.
Summit has added a series of cables to the facility's steel frame in response, the documents show.
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