Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[Fat Chance]

Great ideas,as would hotel, restaurants, cinema etc in them and would like to see it but not sure our owners would get involved as our owners, though Abu Dhabi companies may,I think outside developers would need to approach them and the council with plans for anything like those.

The gasometers in bradford are more industrial aesthetically....these ^ have a more ornate starting point for such a transposition.

 

[SilverFox2]

These look like window sampling rigs. Steel tubes are inserted into the ground and and the soil is extracted from tubes. It is usually to test for contamination rather than ground bearing capacity. Prior to any development the Local Authority require a remediation strategy to be put in place where any contaminated ground is identified and to excavated material classified as inert, non contaminated, contaminated etc.... Disposal sites need to understand the classification of any excavated material so that contaminated waste can be managed correctly. This level of information also helps any contractor pricing the groundworks as contaminated material costs a lot more to dispose than inert material. The contractor will also need to provide a remediation strategy for the LPA demonstrating that any imported material is clean and not contaminated. Very responsible way of managing the construction process. For those who are interested in future development of the ground there are very encouraging signs.

Certainly it was not only Clayton Aniline who contaminated the area chemically.

 

[KS55]

Looks to me like all those rags & dippers were right, The owners have got bored with running little old city, they are now drilling for oil in East Manchester & when they find it they will close us down & build a oil refinery?

They might get a shock to find out that the oil would belong to HMG.

 

[jrb]

Going to break the pictures down over a couple posts so they're not all lumped together in 1 thread. You're all familiar with the locations.

Joe Mercer Way and the back of the store.

Blue Moon Bar area. Sprayed markings on the ground. Area in-between the Blue Moon Bar and store.

MIke Summerbee bar area.

Thought I'd taken more pictures. Hmmm. There's another fenced off area at the other end of the bar. Fenced off area just visible to the left, where the TP22/03 marking is.

Notice the cracks.

 

[somapop]

Reading posts like this, it's extremely exciting to think what the Etihad Campus will be like by 2025. Pleasing if the hotel is indeed part of the next phase - and especially if the mooted casino and conferencing facilities are incorporated into it at the stage. Remember that Co-op Live, according to the Sunday Times, will already have "32 bars, restaurants and clubs" that are open day in, day out.

It seems that the Campus might well be genuinely transformed in terms of its attractiveness as a destination. Starting to look as though all those bold claims in past versions of the Eastlands Regeneration Framework could be about to be realised to a significant degree.

Hey man - good to hear from you again!

I remember a few years ago how active (and with a dash of fantasy) this thread was, and it does sound like much is starting to come to fruition now.

 

[Tbilisi]

Are there plans to cover City Square. I dont bother with it as its freezing in winter and even worse when it rains.

Think the Co op will be good in winter with all those bars.

 

[jrb]

City's Square area.

Click to enlarge the all pictures. Including smaller panoramic picture.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

They might get a shock to find out that the oil would belong to HMG.

I think HHSM might make claim !!

 

[Gone for a Burton]

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Merged 2 separate pictures together

Bernabéu Stadium redevelopment including stadium exterior wrap.

Interesting how they’ve gone about covering the spirals.

Click to enlarge.

Enlarged the picture. Slightly blurred.

A little imagination...have you been to Saadiat Island ??

 

[Leeky]

These look like window sampling rigs. Steel tubes are inserted into the ground and and the soil is extracted from tubes. It is usually to test for contamination rather than ground bearing capacity. Prior to any development the Local Authority require a remediation strategy to be put in place where any contaminated ground is identified and to excavated material classified as inert, non contaminated, contaminated etc.... Disposal sites need to understand the classification of any excavated material so that contaminated waste can be managed correctly. This level of information also helps any contractor pricing the groundworks as contaminated material costs a lot more to dispose than inert material. The contractor will also need to provide a remediation strategy for the LPA demonstrating that any imported material is clean and not contaminated. Very responsible way of managing the construction process. For those who are interested in future development of the ground there are very encouraging signs.

Didn’t they deal with the soil contamination prior to the stadium being built?