Montreal Olympic Stadium roof removed, repairs continue [Video]

A familiar roofline in Montreal is disappearing.

Work teams have begun dismantling the Olympic Stadium roof in preparation for a new one.

Over the last few months the fabric and metal structure was removed from the top of the stadium. An engineer with the project, Nadir Guenfoud, says 20 per cent of the overall work is done.

“The first thing we had to do was to prepare the slab, so the field of play had to be reconditioned to be able to host the different kind of cranes that were going to circulate on the field of play,” he said. “After that, we were able to attack the roof, and, eventually, the mouth of this attacking the cables that are the suspension cables that are connecting the tower to the roof that was there previously.”

It’s a massive job with a massive budget.

Guenfoud said $175 million of the $870 million promised by the Quebec government has been spent.

Over the almost five decades since …