Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

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Pics From Alan Turing Way today

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The sight lines from the back row of level 3 look to be not 100% great. Will they be able to see the big screens at the North Stand, for instance?
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Why do you want to watch the telly at a football ground
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So you don't watch replays of goals or shots that just miss to see how close they were etc?
 
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bammy blue said:
Going off the video, there are 14 of them in total. Looks like 1 a day going in, fantastic feat of engineering when you look at the size and weight of the buggers! 2 weeks should see the new roof supports complete.
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We will be seeing lots of different changes to the new stand every week now the structure is fully complete. I wonder if they have started interior work.
 
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That roof is going to have a dramatic effect on the atmosphere. 3rd tier will be the place for noise. But will those in other tiers hear it? When I'm sat at the back of Tier2, I am aware of sound coming from other stands, but it's much fainter from the tier below me.
 
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Although it looks a bit odd the angle of that roof should improve the atmosphere, funnelling the sound down towards the pitch once the corners are filled in..
 
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There was an article published on the MEN's website yesterday afternoon about the Connell Sixth Form College. Text below, or link here: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-city-college-students-achieving-8482384" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... ng-8482384</a>

'Manchester City' college has students achieving their goals and heading for top of the table

Jan 20, 2015 15:38
By Todd Fitzgerald

Before Connell Sixth Form College even opened, its principal told prospective students: "I can get you into Oxford and Cambridge."

With the current crop of A-level students well on their way to outstanding results, Gillian Winter might just be able keep that promise.

The £10m college, built as part of Beswick’s multi-million pound regeneration, sits beside Manchester City’s sprawling Etihad campus, at the heart of a community being tansformed.

Before Connell opened in August 2013, few schools in north and east Manchester offered A-levels, leaving scores of youngsters with dreams of going to university facing long journeys each day to attend classes.

With the chance of a first-class education on their doorstep, hundreds took places at Connell, with the college posting bumper results in its first year.

The first cohort of students achieved a 97 per cent AS-level pass rate.

Two-thirds of departments boasted a 100pc success rate. And 23 pc of students achieved at least two grades higher than their targets. That group is well into its second year, with a new crop of youngsters joining last August.

The number of students now stands at 350. Next year it will grow to 600.

Ms Winter has promised to propel bright teenagers into the country’s top universities - if they put in the work.

Students, she says, have risen to the challenge, with some well one their way to top A-level results.

Ms Winter said: “There was a lot of planning going into this. Now those promises are becoming a reality. We now have real students and staff, who have excelled in a mature, purposeful and professional environment.

“This is about students having a route to a successful future and having aspirations. We give our students a very personal, bespoke education. We try and get to know every student - and they really get to know us.

"We build very strong relationships with them.

“I simply want students to leave with good academic qualifications, confident that they have the transferable skills that will get them into any career they want - I don’t want them to be pigeonholed.”

Connell’s tie-up with Oxford University’s Pembroke College sees professors visiting Manchester to deliver lectures inspiring them to apply to top universities. Students are also put through their paces at mock interviews in preparation for the real thing.

The college, created as part of the government’s free school programme, teaches young Manchester City players in their own purpose-built academy - as well as Team GB cyclists and Taekwondo fighters.

Students have access to facilities at the newly-built neighbouring leisure centre, as well as City astro-turf pitches.

The club’s £200m new football academy, opposite the Etihad Stadium, was opened last month.

The Beswick community hub - the official name for the college and the new £9m East Manchester Leisure Centre - has been funded by the council and Manchester City.

It forms part of a massive £260m revamp of area, aimed at making it an international sports village.The next piece of the jigsaw is the new £18m Manchester Institute of Health and Performance, billed as a ‘world class’ research and development facility for sports science and medicine.

That could include a specialist MRI scanner, sports therapy and rehabilitation for athletes - right next to Connell. The ambitious project is aimed at transforming what was seen as one of Manchester’s - and England’s - most deprived areas.

The Bright Futures Educational Trust, the charity behind the college, say the east of the city has been under-served for decades, with local teenagers being left behind.

Ms Winter – who oversaw A-level success at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls – says her goal is to get as many students as possible scoring A grades.

She added: “I want them to leave with the feeling this was two years very well spent. They’re an amazing bunch of young people. We have phenomenal staff - and some incredible students.

“They’ve risen to the challenge of being students in a very adult, mature enviornment. The two rules of this college are trust and respect - students have accepted our rules and adopted them.

“We don’t have a big rule book here, but if you’re respectful and trustful, you can stay. If you’re not, as some students haven’t been, you’ll be asked to leave.”
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lancs blue said:
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Although it looks a bit odd the angle of that roof should improve the atmosphere, funnelling the sound down towards the pitch once the corners are filled in..
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That should be the way it works. The stadium wasn't designed for noise retention and older grounds were generally better and they had sloping roofs to keep the noise in. With the filters to allow air into the stadium, and the roof being quite flat, noise escapes quite easily. I think this will make a huge impact on our atmosphere. With the 1894 group trying their hardest to get a singing section going, ideally noise will really emanate from the south stand and with the away fans grouped in a smaller strip through the three tiers it should encourage a bit of a sing off which will lead to people moving into the third tier. I really think this will address the noise issues.
 
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somapop said:
Aye, I read that yesterday along with An Dhabi funding the new Graphene Centre:

http://www.manchesterconfidential.c...hitect-Named-For-60m-GEIC-Graphene-Manchester

All positive.
Nowt on the Panda Log Flume TM yet mind....
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Graphene this is massive !! i mean it will be so big all over the World the Money this Product (graphene) will generate well there are not enough noughts... to put on the end of a number... now if we can have a small % of sponsors that would be perfect.
 
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Okay I've been this morning, standing freezing in the snow to see the latest developments and got chatting to a few lads on the site through the fence. Before anyone asks I've not taken pictures as my phone camera isn't good enough to do it justice and the snow and sleet was also extremely heavy to the degree I twice had to go and look around the club shop to dry out and warm up.

Anyway some things mentioned to me today. Each roof strut comes in three bits and once lifted into place and connected weighs 44 tonnes. Also and this I found more interesting was that City are looking to get the maximum capacity they can from the stadium as quickly as possible irrespective of the stadium always being full as it puts them in pole position to host concerts, rugby finals, European finals etc and to take maximum advantage of the corporate side by charging top dollar in order to get the best revenue streams. Maybe others already knew this, maybe it's bullshit but just passing on what I was told this morning.
 
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