MSG Sphere is an under-construction music and entertainment venue being built in Paradise, Nevada, near Las Vegas Strip. The sphere-shaped venue will have a capacity of 18,000 and will feature LED screens inside and outside of the venue.

The equipped indoor spherical digital display panel will spread across the interior of the venue while an outdoor screen display will show what is going on inside. The venue will be built along with new bars, private suites, a museum and retail space.

The 360-feet tall and 516-feet wide sphere is being built on 18 acres off Sands Avenue between Manhattan Street and Koval Lane. Dextra rebar couplers and headed bars have been used to connect and reinforce columns, core walls and beams of the building’s structure.

Dextra’s Bartec rebar couplers are designed to splice either the same or different diameter bars, whether one bar can be rotated, or not. Bartec spliced bars provide full strength in tension, compression and stress reversal applications. The mechanical splicing solution is accredited by major independent regulatory bodies; for example, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, UK CARES and Bureau Veritas.

Headed bars are also used to replace hooked bars as end anchorages in congested areas to reduce lapping length for beam-column connections. Standard Bartec mechanical anchorages are circular in shape and are attached by threading onto the rebar.

The construction of MSG Sphere is projected to be completed in 2021.

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