Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[GXCity]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site

Who comes up with this PV or wind turbine bollocks? Both are sources of micro-generation and are pretty useless. As someone who works in an industry which has to deal with such devices regularly I will never understand why people waste so much time and money on such minuscule, inefficient devices. As Chris articulates it perfectly - there just 'eco bling' like a beautiful woman but no brain or personality.

If City want to make some serious money from providing energy they would build some CHP boilers which can provide electricity and heating for the surrounding district. Not too dissimilar from what the Co-op have done at Angel Square - you know the beehive like building near Victoria station which emits white smoke from flues at the top of the building.

There are already 2 CHP's installed in the Academy Energy Centre although this is currently to meet the demand on that particular part of the Campus. Further CHP's are planned and will indeed be linked into a wider district heating scheme in due course (City will have an internal district heating scheme for the Campus feeding the various developments). Potentially they may be linked to the City Centre district heating scheme currently under discussion. CHP's have already been installed in the Town Hall extension as part of this scheme and further ones have been proposed. The largest of which could be located in the GMEX.

As I suspected GX. The ill-informed wind turbine and solar panel (photovoltaics actually) debate was getting nauseous!

Don't rule out the wind turbine :)

 

[DiscoSteve]

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I am sure this has been posted before, but just for comparison purposes as to how much has changed at our club, who remembers being excited at the prospect of this?

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[fbloke]

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I am sure this has been posted before, but just for comparison purposes as to how much has changed at our club, who remembers being excited at the prospect of this?

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I think the Maine Road capacity after those developments would have been less than the Etihad is now.

The Platt Lane would have matched the old North Stand which was pretty small as stands go.

 

[Oystercatcher28]

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Are they extending and resurfacing a new section to the Fallowfield Loop cycle path into the stadium area/velodrome??

Eastlands/Sport City/Etihad Campus has:

Manchester Regional Athletics Arena (Sale Harriers, Belle Vue Racers and Manchester Kestrels/annual national and regional events)
English Institute of Sport
Sportcity Fitness Studio
National Squash Centre
Regional Tennis Centre
Manchester Velodrome / National Cycling Centre (various teams/Revolution cycling/world events)
BMX Track (indoors/world and nationals held here)
Etihad Stadium (Manchester City Football Club/MCWFC)
Phillips Park
Clayton Vale
Sportcity Leisure Complex

Former things on site:
B of the Bang (or F of the Fart)

We just need a foothold locally in other sports:
Rugby Union (bring Manchester Rugby Club from Cheadle? There are loads of clubs to move over)
Rugby League (Mancunians RL is based with Broughton Park Rugby Union F.C. at Hough End base; both them and Manc College have big ambititions)
Manchester Aquatics Centre has swimming covered, but why not add to the state of the art facilities at the Etihad with a decent pool for all teams to train in and public use?
Ice Hockey
Basketball
Handball
Netball
Cricket - I think Lancashire wanted a site close by but lost out on this.
Dodgeball - surely there is room for Manchester Bees Dodgeball Club? Diversity gets people into the shadows of the stadium.

Wouldn't it be great if the Great Manchester Run took in the campus too?

I think having as many sports in one campus as possible will encourage multi-discipline sportstars of the future. Alongside this links with coaches, physios, other sport analysts at Manc Uni etc could be highly beneficial in the longterm for the community, the business of MCFC and all connections.

The campus has so much potential already, and I hope that it develops and expands over time.

 

[nmc]

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Bringing LCCC to Eastland's would have been a great move for all parties. They have spent a lot of money at OT but they have not built a world class cricket ground - it's marginally better but they are failing to keep pace with Hampshire, Durham, Notts etc. The present OT will be quickly overtaken and will come under pressure as a Test Ground - if they'd come to Eastland's they could have had the best cricket ground in the country and been the Lords of the north.

 

[DiscoSteve]

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Bridge now has a floor
[bigimg]http://stevenicklin.com/images/city/20140416_110747.jpg[/bigimg]

Made of concrete strips
[bigimg]http://stevenicklin.com/images/city/bridge/bridgefloorcloseup.jpg[/bigimg]

Still got the three way corner to do
[bigimg]http://stevenicklin.com/images/city/bridge/bridgecornernofloor.jpg[/bigimg]

 

[Mike N]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site (continue

Bringing LCCC to Eastland's would have been a great move for all parties. They have spent a lot of money at OT but they have not built a world class cricket ground - it's marginally better but they are failing to keep pace with Hampshire, Durham, Notts etc. The present OT will be quickly overtaken and will come under pressure as a Test Ground - if they'd come to Eastland's they could have had the best cricket ground in the country and been the Lords of the north.

Think you are right there. The ground is much better now but will still be playing catch-up to other grounds. I suppose the 150+ years at O.T. was a very difficult thing to walk away from.

 

[Falastur]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site (continue

We just need a foothold locally in other sports:
Rugby Union (bring Manchester Rugby Club from Cheadle? There are loads of clubs to move over)
Rugby League (Mancunians RL is based with Broughton Park Rugby Union F.C. at Hough End base; both them and Manc College have big ambititions)
Manchester Aquatics Centre has swimming covered, but why not add to the state of the art facilities at the Etihad with a decent pool for all teams to train in and public use?
Ice Hockey
Basketball
Handball
Netball
Cricket - I think Lancashire wanted a site close by but lost out on this.
Dodgeball - surely there is room for Manchester Bees Dodgeball Club? Diversity gets people into the shadows of the stadium.

Wouldn't it be great if the Great Manchester Run took in the campus too?

I, as most people, would love to see other sports facilities added to the site, but I have to ask, just how big do you think the collar site is? City would have to probably double the amount of land it currently owns to fit all of that lot in, and there's only so many decrepit industrial sites we can knock down to make space...

 

[Chancy Termites]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site (continue

Bridge now has a floor
[bigimg]http://stevenicklin.com/images/city/20140416_110747.jpg[/bigimg]

Made of concrete strips
[bigimg]http://stevenicklin.com/images/city/bridge/bridgefloorcloseup.jpg[/bigimg]

Still got the three way corner to do
[bigimg]http://stevenicklin.com/images/city/bridge/bridgecornernofloor.jpg[/bigimg]

Much better now. I felt the original design had some potential health and safety flaws.

 

[jrb]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site (continue

Massive(arf!) update coming up tomorrow. Plenty of changes since the last update. The site is deserted today due to the Easter Holidays, so I had a free run of the perimeter. Plenty of new vantage points have opened up around the site. It's safe to say I made the most of them while everyone is away. ;-) Also took picture updates of the Beswick Community Hub, the South Stand expansion, and the new bridge.

keep on checking back tomorrow evening.

Off home now for a few well earned beers. :-)