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Client Ask: Determine all potential penetrations of direct sunlight in the building and design solutions for mitigating and darkening the room in a cost effective and acoustic absorptive manner. Design a solution to quickly and attractively transition one glass wall of the arena from a visually transparent and acoustically reflective view of the city to a visually opaque and acoustically absorptive wall for behind the temporary staging setups for concerts. The system must be able to transition in less then 30 seconds between modes.

After several years of planning and construction, and almost $2 billion, Allegiant Stadium officially opened in July 2020. The new home to the Las Vegas Raiders and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Rebels college football team features 65,000 seats (expandable to 72,000), parking for 25,000, and an 85-foot flaming cauldron.

Flyhouse was brought into the project in 2019 to consult the architects on the initial design. Much like our work with U.S. Bank Stadium in 2019, we were tasked with ambient light control, adding custom motorized curtains and necessary structures around the glass venue. We began work on the project in March of this year, just as the global pandemic was becoming a reality. Fortunately, our crew was able to install onsite this summer, following local COVID-19 safety protocols.

While Allegiant Stadium officially opened in 2020—and fans got their first look during a Monday Night Football game between the Raiders and New Orleans Saints—spectators were welcomed in-person a year later, in August 2021.