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Stadium construction advances: superstructure progress, DBE participation and workforce training highlighted
Summary
Contractors reported rising on-site labor, completion of a connected elevated slab, DBE payments to date, workforce demographics, safety incidents and continued emphasis on hiring from local promise zones and training programs.
Contractors and the Titans’ construction team reported progress on the new Nissan Stadium’s superstructure, increased on-site labor, and ongoing efforts to meet diversity and workforce-development goals.
A construction representative for Tennessee Builders Alliance (TBA) told the authority the project averaged about 715 workers on-site daily and had logged roughly 725,000 labor hours to date. The team said workers will soon begin setting steel on the raker beams and precast pieces — more than 2,000 pieces are expected to be set starting in February.
The construction update included site milestones: completion of the first full 360-degree connected elevated slab (the plaza level above the playing field), ongoing below-grade parking concrete work, and the start of the East Bank pump station (a Metro Water partnership) that is planned to support the stadium and nearby development.
TBA and contractors reported recorded payments to DBE (disadvantaged business enterprise) and small-business firms logged in the Metro system. Reported payments so far included approximately $26.3 million to women-owned firms, $5.1 million to minority-owned firms, and $19.9 million to small businesses, totaling about $51.5 million recorded to date. The team said awards to date total about $1.08 billion in contract value and projected future DBE involvement at higher totals (presentations provided projections for women-, minority-, and small-business participation). TBA said it is tracking additional breakdowns (for example, Tennessee-owned business counts) and will provide further detail at the next meeting.
Workforce and training updates noted the Titans’ TC2 Construction Training Camp program: multiple cohorts have graduated and cohort 5 was graduating on Jan. 31. The update highlighted an individual success story: graduate Miles Gooch, a Nashville native, joined the project workforce after completing the TC2 program and was publicly presented with a 2025 Nissan Frontier by a Nissan representative in recognition of his work.
Contractors reported workforce demographics: about 60% of workers were minorities and those workers accounted for about 71% of labor hours logged to date. About 22% of workers came from Promise Zone counties, contributing nearly 30% of recorded hours.
On safety, contractors reported a handful of first-aid incidents and several recordable injuries since the last report. The presentation listed five recordable incidents through the end of December, and speakers said a sixth recordable would be reported in the next update; cited examples included a worker who later was diagnosed with a small foot fracture after a plywood incident and a worker who fractured an elbow after stepping into an uncovered beam pocket. Contractors said they perform root-cause analysis after every incident to adjust training, supervision, and site controls.
TBA invited authority members to future site tours and said it will provide additional demographic breakdowns and lists of participating small and women-owned firms at the next meeting.
