Some of the loudest, most active college
football fans are at Louisiana State University’s
Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge. After
winning the national championship in 2003,
the Tiger Athletic Foundation announced
that the stadium would get a major makeover
and expansion.
The project was designed to happen in two
phases. Phase 1, during the summer of 2004,
would get the main elevator, stairwell and new
columns up prior to the beginning of football
season, and Phase 2 would add new ramps,
tie beams, rakers, transfer beams, platforms
and finish the Phase 1 areas between the end
of football season and the beginning of the
next one.
By the end of the project, Symons had invoiced
almost $2 million on this project, and W.G.
Yates was happy with the outcome. Mark
Houck remarked that without Symons help
in the field and in the engineering, the project
would have been way behind. Instead, when
September came around, all but a few seats
were ready for fans of the Fighting Tigers!