It's not every day that the folks from AccuWeather talk about the Minnesota Vikings, but they have a pretty interesting story on their site today about the stadium that the purple will be calling home starting in 2016.
Specifically, they're talking about the roof of the stadium, which is going to be specially designed to prevent snow from accumulating on it. After what happened to the Metrodome roof in 2010, it makes sense that this would be a priority for the stadium's architects, but the way they're going about it is pretty unique.
The new stadium's pitched roof will allow snow to slide off into catch basins and it will also have a unique snow melt system installed into the roof designed by Uponor North America, a company that provides plumbing and indoor climate and infrastructure systems for residential and commercial buildings.