North Stand Construction Discussion

Coatigan said:
Can't wait for the hoarding to come down.
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Absolutely!

It currently looks like there's going to be 3 tiers with the temporary hoardings up at the back of level 2.

There really is going to be a wow factor, even for us, when the temporary hoardings are taken down and the much larger and fully seated 2nd tier is finally revealed.

I just hope CP or SS have a drone up when that happens.
 
Isn't the cladding exterior and the joint specs finished to the Architects design?

I don't think that specific joint has been finished like that mistakenly or is a botched job, even though it does look like it has been finished off unevenly. It certainly wouldn't be left like that if it was wrong.
 
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Starting to panel up the towers.
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jrb said:
Isn't the cladding exterior and the joint specs finished to the Architects design?

I don't think that specific joint has been finished like that mistakenly or is a botched job, even though it does look like it has been finished off unevenly. It certainly would be left like that if it was wrong.
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Depends. It could be a botch, and it may well get left like that if it outweighs the practicality of rectifying it.
 
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Coatigan said:
Depends. It could be a botch, and it may well get left like that if it outweighs the practicality of rectifying it.
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The photo probably doesn’t do it justice either - it looks even shoddier when you look at it in person.

*although it also might not look as bad from other angles too.
 
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@cpoverview , in the latest video you look at the south side to see if the vertical rods tie to the roof. They don't, I get why the angle where it lined up mayne looked like it on the smaller screen. But there aren't any on the south side, those are all diagonals and go back to the rear of the stand. There aren't any verticals to the roof above.

Re the ones on the north stand, I can't see what they are doing or a reas9n for them to be there, so for that alone I'm assuming they are temporary.
 
It will all turn out right when it’s all finished. Remember the wonky roof. There will always be snagging lists at the end of a new build and I’m sure Sisk know what needs doing.
 
Spanishbob said:
It will all turn out right when it’s all finished. Remember the wonky roof. There will always be snagging lists at the end of a new build and I’m sure Sisk know what needs doing.
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I don’t think that joint is a snagging issue. ;-)

You should see all the snagging issues that were never sorted out after the South stand was expanded and have been left.
 
DiscoSteve said:
Close up of the 'temporary' links between new roof beams and old cablenet
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jrb said:
I don’t think that joint is a snagging issue. ;-)

You should see all the snagging issues that were never sorted out after the South stand was expanded and have been left.
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To be fair it looks very similar ( in my eyes) to the one on the other side of the roof ??
 
WARBABY said:
Maybe to keep the ropes in the correct tension. Wire ropes tend to unwind when the become slack.
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This is not aimed at you, it is expanding the discussion prompted by a point you raise.

I don't think that is the case, and here is why. I have btw tried to guess it from when these rods first appeared or were pointed out a few weeks ago, and to use the old phrase 'I got nothing'. Others are more than welcome to chip in with alternative thoughts.

Any inherent slack would have surely been factored and built into the catenaries decades ago, as this is the original cable net. It is also tensioned back at each node, which was all lazer monitored through the months of transfer off the original piers.

It then went on to stand freely fully self supported for months, while the new roof was built around it. Doesn't (to me) make sense that it should need retentioned at this point after all that.

It is possible that following all the works, there is a 'spring' effect on the ring. But as above, it stood free standing (by that I mean without any interference) for ages, and they would have had to rectify that months ago, not wait for a new roof to be built to tighten it. Also, it would presumably need pushed the opposite way, rather than tensioned, as the spring would be in theory be upwards rather than downwards, having shed the weight of the old roof below it. And if that were the case, you would think it would need more the two slender sets of rods in two locations.

To me it looks more like these are for the new roof above, rather than the cable ring itself, either on a temporary or permanent basis.

To minimise wind uplift on the new junctions till it is all fully fitted and properly tensioned? This is logical, but again, just doesn't look enough for that.

Or alternatively, these rods could have been what was used to rectify 'the wonkyness' of the beams and tighten them down rather than faffing with the catenaries above.

The truth is, I am puzzled why they are there, and none of the thoughts I have had on it are convincing enough for me, but I am sharing them anyway. I don't see them being permanent, but purely because I can't seem to see their purpose. Maybe someone else will hit on it at some point however.
 
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