Much of the work inside the Carrier Dome is moving at a fast pace, but weather is stalling some of the larger steps in the project.
Remodeling the Carrier Dome is no easy task. Just over two months into the year, it's crunch time for the $118 million project.
"We've had 120 people here a day. We're working twenty four hours a day right now, there's two shifts, six to six, that's our day here every day," said Pete Sala, Syracuse University's VP and Chief Facilities Officer.
Pete Sala is leading the way on this project. A lot of work has been done inside.
"As you can see above you, the lights are completely gone, the scoreboards are gone, the speakers are all gone, the sounds taken out. So in the last two weeks../and obviously we're standing on the original basketball court that was put in with the building back in 1980."
The biggest challenge hasn't been anything contractors can control.
"When you're picking something up, two hundred something feet in the air, the wind is your biggest challenge and that's what we fight every day is watching the wind."
Even without the sound and lights, Sala says the roof weighs 220 tons. The plan is to break it down next week.
"We're watching the weather; the wind is a problem for me. If it's windy, I'll back out of the date, but I'm hoping if it's calm enough we can take it down early in the week," said Sala.
The historic dome roof will be torn apart piece by piece, slowly falling towards the ground, and the finish line is in sight - just six months away.