North Stand Expansion

[Coatigan]

We were laughing about this Yesterday, a bloody lot of measuring and pa few prayers that it will all line up very much required! Joking apart it always seems an impressive stage of the build when you see the big sections of steel being put together (giant meccano set), looking forward to seeing where it is at the end of the season and the start of the next!

I would imagine they are focusing on getting the two towers and roof supports up ahead of the end of the season, so that they can then speed through transferring to the new structure and dismantling the old roof over the summer months before the next season starts, when there aren't fans and access arrangements to work around. It will take longer than the summer break, but if the big transfer can be done then without interruption of games every three to seven days, that will probably be what the big push will be for.

 

[jrb]

Southampton moving the away fans and making the ‘whole Northam home end safe standing’

 

[jrb]

I'll post the pictures over 2 posts so not to posts them all in 1 post.

Click on the picture then click the download arrow to enlarge picture.

 

[jrb]

Stand corrected on this.

That is the last row of seating at the back that backs on to the back of NSL2? Set back and slightly above the seats will be the hotel room terraces overlooking NSL2. Above NSL2 and hotel room terraces will be the floating 3rd tier with the restaurant inside the NS. The NS roof is above that.

Compare the height of the current steel structure, including the seat rows, to the current NS roof opposite. Massive!

 

[surrounded by idiots]

I'll post the pictures over 2 posts so not to posts them all in 1 post.

Click on the picture then click the download arrow to enlarge picture.

1st one looks like a Lowry painting with cranes for chimneys.

 

[jrb]

1st one looks like a Lowry painting with cranes for chimneys.

Going to the match.

 

[willipp]

On that last pic the old framework goes right through what looks like the middle of the new seats. I presume that old framework is somehow replaced and removed to make way for the new roof section?

 

[HelloCity]

On that last pic the old framework goes right through what looks like the middle of the new seats. I presume that old framework is somehow replaced and removed to make way for the new roof section?

Yeah, this was first picked up by @Coatigan.

I’m not sure yet how the OG cable net will be supported when the OG masts are removed but it’s possible the new roof supports will also pick up the slack for the OG cable net as well if they can join them up that way.

 

[Coatigan]

Stand corrected on this.

That is the last row of seating at the back that backs on to the back of NSL2? Set back and slightly above the seats will be the hotel room terraces overlooking NSL2. Above NSL2 and hotel room terraces will be the floating 3rd tier with the restaurant inside the NS. The NS roof is above that.

Yes, that is pretty much it.

Compare the height of the current steel structure, including the seat rows, to the current NS roof opposite. Massive!

Think that was what I was trying to highlight in the sections a couple pages back. The difference in height is huge.

Makes you realise just how 'low' the existing roof actually is.

Here are some fun figures to try relate to.

At the front (stadium end), the new roof will sit only circa 5 metres above the top tip of the curve of the existing roof. Which is still a lot but relative to the scale of this seems not that high. The first two levels of the steel as built so far are 5m each, for a sense of scale.

But at the back end, the new roof will sit 27m higher than the existing roof.

And the top of the new support will sit 30m higher than the current top of the support you see poking through the new steel.

For context, the steelwork you see built so far is at currently 29m at its highest point. So pretty much double its current height, before it tops out. Albeit not all that will be inhabited, about 20m of it is just the structural piers.

The rooftop walk, will sit just over 21m higher than the top of the steel you see right now.

The new outer most walls of the stand will come out 22m back from the current outermost wall of the stand. That's just the stand, not the rest of the connecting towers to the hotel/office.

You can actually see the foundations for new edge of the stand below, inbetween the two steel towers. That is where the new bars to the square, the 'stage', and the line of the new stand facade will be. That's how far back the existing external wall will push to.

 

[jrb]

Yes, that is pretty much it.


Think that was what I was trying to highlight in the sections a couple pages back. The difference in height is huge.

Makes you realise just how 'low' the existing roof actually is.

Here are some fun figures to try relate to.

At the front (stadium end), the new roof will sit only circa 5 metres above the top tip of the curve of the existing roof. Which is still a lot but relative to the scale of this seems not that high. The first two levels of the steel as built so far are 5m each, for a sense of scale.

But at the back end, the new roof will sit 27m higher than the existing roof.

And the top of the new support will sit 30m higher than the current top of the support you see poking through the new steel.

For context, the steelwork you see built so far is at currently 29m at its highest point. So pretty much double its current height, before it tops out. Albeit not all that will be inhabited, about 20m of it is just the structural piers.

The rooftop walk, will sit just over 21m higher than the top of the steel you see right now.

The new outer most walls of the stand will come out 22m back from the current outermost wall of the stand. That's just the stand, not the rest of the connecting towers to the hotel/office.

You can actually see the foundations for new edge of the stand below, inbetween the two steel towers. That is where the new bars to the square, the 'stage', and the line of the new stand facade will be. That's how far back the existing external wall will push to.

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The height of the new NS will be a great addition to the Etihad stadium in it’s own right. The current NS height looks pathetic if we’re all honest, due to NSL1 being below ground level, and NSL2, which is a small tier, being above ground level.

What really catches the eye is the sheer size and the depth of the whole NS redevelopment. It will Look absolutely huge, what with the new stand, hotel, fan zone, the 2 claws, as well as the Coop Live Arena close by on Joe Mercer Way.