ARTICLES :: There's no place like (Invesco) home :: Costs reined at Broncos' new stable :: Invesco Field documentary relies heavily on Mile High :: More elbow, leg room? Invesco has it :: Cheerleaders corral Grade A locker room :: Goal posts will frame name of famous Bronco :: Pittsburgh stadium's reviews underwhelming :: NFL stadiums planned or under construction :: Mile High Stadium won't go out with a bang :: Sports Hall of Fame honors state's greatest :: Stadium project links companies :: Traffic, parking changes in store for Invesco Field :: Stadium milestones :: Field's TVs: All that's missing is the recliner :: Turnstiles turn back counterfeiters :: A park instead of a parking lot :: Broncos fans to be wired into the latest NFL data :: Broncos football will be tastefully done :: New south stands are plush :: From kegs to toilets, stadium flush with funky accouterments :: Invesco field one tough turf :: 'It's beautiful' seems to be consensus of Broncos fans :: Longmont family grew with Broncos :: A palace of parts :: Broncos big fans of Raiders stadium :: Stealing 'Rocky Mountain Thunder' :: Horse whisperers :: Krieger: Do you Denver, take this stadium? :: Crowd pleaser :: More food, higher prices at Invesco STADIUM UPDATES, BY DATE Follow the construction progress of the stadium with our semi-monthly updates. Select an update here ---- 2001 ---- Jan. 6 Jan. 20 Feb. 3 Feb 17 March 3 March 17 April 1 April 14 April 30 May 16 May 29 June 9 June 25 July 9 July 16 July 23 July 30 Aug. 6 ---- 2000 ---- Feb. 12 Feb. 26 March 18 April 1 April 15 April 29 June 3 June 17 July 1 Aug. 5 Aug. 19 Sept. 2 Sept. 16 Sept. 30 Oct. 14 Oct. 28 Nov. 12 Nov. 25 Dec. 10 Dec. 23 :: Click here for recent stadium stories

:: Four art works will cost about $1.8 million

:: 45-foot concourses are twice as large as those at Mile High Stadium

:: 450 point-of-sale locations

:: 8 escalators

:: 8 elevators

:: 550 televisions

:: Average concourse width: 45 feet on lower, 30 feet on upper

:: Time to build was 2 years, 6 months

:: 85,000 cubic yards of concrete

:: 256 miles of post tensioning cable

:: 2,100,000 square feet of asphalt paving

:: 200,000 pounds of aluminum

:: 12,000 tons of structural steel

:: 3,861,000 field work hours

:: 12,000 pounds of reinforcing steel

:: 300,000 yards of excavation

:: 130,000 bricks

:: 1,600,000 masonry blocks

:: 500,000 square feet of sidewalk

:: 130,000 square feet of cutainwall

:: 31,000 square feet of suite windows

:: 1,500 plumbing fixtures

:: 25,000 light fixtures

:: 2,500 tons of cooling

:: 1,717,000 total square footage; almost 1 million more than Mile High Stadium

:: 76,125 seats -- two more than Mile High Stadium.

:: Minimun seat width is 19 inches

:: Every seat has a beverage holder

:: Leg room: 33-36 inches

:: 8,500 club seats

:: 762 pairs of ADA seating

:: 124 luxury suites; 138 were at Mile High Stadium

:: $400.8 million total cost

:: $364.2 million guaranteed maximum price

:: $7 million spent on handrails

:: $2.6 million spent on scoreboards

:: 67,000 square feet

:: Can accommodate 6,000 people for a reception and 2,500 for a banquet

:: 1,518 square feet

:: 4,704 square feet

:: 5,204 square feet

:: 6,486 square feet

:: 78 lockers

:: 20 showers

:: 9 toilet stalls

:: 10 urinals

:: 7 sinks

:: The stadium will serve 26 kinds of beer

:: Seven Colorado-made microbrews and five imports

:: Ther are four beer-pumping stations in the basement, where all the kegs are stored

:: Beer flows through refrigerated lines to concession stands

:: Each room can pump about 41 kegs at any one time

:: Thunder's stall is air-conditioned

:: Situated next to hook-ups for media semi-trucks

:: 87 men's and women's restrooms and four unisex family restrooms

:: When the stadium is full, there is one toilet per 57 women and one per 100 men.

:: Turf planted in August 1999 at Graff's Turf Farms in Fort Morgan

:: 20 truckloads of sod to transport the grass to Invesco Field

:: Graff's Turf Farms also grew the turf for Coors Field