Crews began installing the second steel roof truss at the Athletics’ Las Vegas ballpark Tuesday morning, marking another milestone for the $2 billion structure.

The first of the two pieces of roof truss was installed at around 6:30 a.m. and attached to a buttress, or support structure, on the stadium’s east side.

Crews began lifting the second truss at around 9 a.m., a process that was a bit more complicated, as the truss needed to be connected to the first truss piece on the buttress, while the other side had to be attached to a massive temporary steel shoring tower built inside the facility on the site of the future playing field.

The orchestrated process included multiple workers on the buttress side, with a few in boom lifts and one on the truss piece itself. Two crew members were also atop of the around 250-foot-tall shoring tower to fasten the second piece of the truss to the steel column.

It took just over an hour to get the second piece lifted, moved into to place and attached to the first piece located on the buttress.

The second of seven roof truss arches will feature five total pieces, with the completion of the second truss set to occur in August, according to A’s President Marc Badain. The first roof truss arch was installed in sections in June.

The truss arches will support a roof structure designed with five overlapping pennant-shaped panels that will give the stadium its armadillo-like look.

Crews are steadily working around the entire 9-acre site the stadium is being built on. Concrete seating risers, where seats will be installed, are being added to three levels of the ballpark.

Crews have also poured concrete decking on portions of all four levels of the ballpark, with steel framing beginning in the outfield where spectator areas will be built surrounding the bullpens.

Crews remain on budget and on schedule for the stadium’s planned early 2028 completion, according to the team.

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