The Metrodome was torn down and the site excavated in November.
Pouring concrete in the winter may be a challenge, but Mansell said he saw no problems executing the design of the 65,Cheap NFL Jerseys China,000-seat building,China NFL Jerseys, which features a steel "prow" on its western side rising more than 270 feet from grade.
The site should be enclosed by the winter of 2015-16, with mainly interior work continuing from November 2015 to June 2016, Mortenson general superintendent Dave Mansell said. The stadium's "substantial completion" date is July 2016.
The Vikings are set to play in their new stadium with an inaugural preseason in mid-August 2016. For the next two seasons the NFL team is playing in TCF Bank Stadium at the University of Minnesota. The new stadium will host the 2018 Super Bowl.
"There actually is a lot of finished space over there. It's like you could start painting some of the walls," said Chairwoman Michele Kelm-Helgren of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority. She said more than 650 workers are at the site daily, and over 200 Minnesota companies are involved. That workforce is expected to swell to more than 1,100 by next summer.
Thirteen cranes are operating at the site,Wholesale Hockey Jerseys 2018, and two more will be added. Concrete operations are in full swing and are about halfway complete, with 55,Air Max 97 Silver Bullet Uk,000 cubic yards of concrete poured so far, Troshinsky said.
"That's what it's about: Minnesota jobs," Kelm-Helgren said.
"I don't design them, I just build them," Mansell said. "If they can draw it,NFL Jerseys Cheap, we can build it."
The new stadium was 23 percent complete at the end of September, project director Allen Troshinsky of Mortenson Construction said.
Reporters and photographers were given a tour of the construction site,Air Max 95 Black Leather, where officials said $184 million of $803 million of contract work has been finished and more than $1 million worth of work is being accomplished daily. In a conference room at project headquarters, a game clock counts down the 634 days until completion.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Nine months after the old Metrodome was demolished, the Minnesota Vikings' new $1 billion downtown stadium is nearly a quarter complete and will be finished on schedule in 2016, officials said Monday.
