Workers installed the first steel roof truss at the Athletics’ Las Vegas ballpark early Monday, June 1, 2026, lifting a 200-ton structure onto a buttress on the stadium’s east side. The milestone came exactly as scheduled after months of planning, according to team president Marc Badain.
“The fact that it went off this morning on schedule without a hitch, the plan that’s been put in place, the team of people that have been working on it for months, the thousands of hours of coordination to get to that moment and then to watch the workforce actually complete it this morning, the coordination was so impressive,” Badain told the Review-Journal.
The truss is one of many that will span the ballpark’s playing field, anchored by six buttresses around the perimeter. Additional trusses will be attached to the opposite side to form a single arch. The pieces are built on the ground and hoisted by cranes — one inside the stadium capable of lifting 1,200 tons and two outside that can lift up to 600 tons. Workers suspended in the air install trusses not directly attached to a buttress.
Truss installation will continue for the next four to five months, Badain said. The trusses vary in size, typically weighing between 150 and 200 tons, with the heaviest reaching 500 tons. They are supported by shoring towers inside the stadium until the roof structure is complete, after which the towers will be removed.
The stadium’s height will become more apparent as work progresses, topping out at about 290 feet over the playing field — roughly the same height as the MGM Grand across Tropicana Avenue.
Beyond the roof, steelwork to form seating areas began March 4 and has advanced around more than half of the spaces for seats and suites on the third and fourth levels. A second truss was attached to the initial one later Monday, while 450 other craft workers continued pouring concrete and finishing work on the fourth deck.
“If you look around, they’re still pouring concrete. They’re still finishing some of the work on the fourth deck, and so there’s just so much work going on all at the same time while this incredible engineering feat is going on,” Badain said. “It was a really impressive day and it was the culmination of probably four to five months worth of planning just to get to that.”
The $2 billion ballpark remains on budget and on schedule for a Feb. 29, 2028 completion.
