In about three weeks, the true demolition of the Silverdome will be underway.
That’s according to Richard Adamo, president of the Adamo Group, the demolition company contracted by the Silverdome’s owners, Triple Investment Group, to bring down the stadium.
Environmental remediation is nearly complete on the site, with the crew tearing out transite asbestos panels that were used in a majority of the suites around the perimeter of the dome, along with completing universal waste removal.
“It’s been a lot of up in the air work, and that’s really all we’re doing until the conventional demolition process starts,” Adamo said.
The dome itself is set to come down in sections, top-to-bottom, using large hydraulic excavators. Fans and misters to blow away and mitigate dust will start making their way to the site over the next few weeks. For the environmental work, about four workers are on the site on any given day. When the demolition starts, that number is expected to rise to about 10.
Adamo said he believes most of the Silverdome will be on the ground by the end of January.
“Generally, weather doesn’t affect our work unless it’s very extreme cold. Negative temperatures are hard on the equipment,” Adamo said.
In early June, the city and the stadium’s owners signed a consent agreement to tear down the Silverdome. The demolition permit hit a snag in later that month, when the city raised concerns about the type of fill-dirt that would be used on to 30 to 50-foot deep hole that will be left after demolition, with that permit being approved in early July.