Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site

[Gordyola]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

You can't easily fill in the corners with the current roof structure. The ground anchor cables that support the tension ring exit through the corners smack bang where the the lower part of a third tier would be. The corners also let enough natural daylight through the open shutters (closed on match days) to keep the grass green.

I thought the shutters were to let natural air circulation in, to make the grass grow stronger...?

The louvres at each corner of the stadium could be easily removed without much detriment to the pitch. I don't think they do too much to be honest, although I can see why they were added due to the pitch being built into the ground as such like a Roman amphitheatre and why the stadium appears taller on the inside. The luminescent lining on the roof of the stadium which allows more sunlight to permeate the pitch is far more important than the louvres.

The majority of the drying is by the air movement being a closed bowl and below ground level it is essential to get air movement to the pitch hence the shutters, so dont dismiss these lightly

Pitch ventilation
An inherent problem in designing large stadia is to create a roof that not only shelters (with ‘drip-line’ cover to all spectators) but also ventilates the pitch. Daylight, sunlight, and air movement over the pitch are essential for healthy grass growth but a wind-free and comfortable arena is also needed.
The dramatic roof form and corresponding stand configuration allowed movable louvre vents in the high-level corner voids. These vents can be adjusted to increase or decrease airflow through the Stadium, and thus benefit
not only air movement over the pitch but also the spectator environment. Similar low-level vents are also incorporated in the corner exit gates.
Under most circumstances these precautions would have been adequate to ensure good grass growth, but Arup wanted to ensure the very best pitch possible. A further ventilation system was therefore added, this time beneath the pitch as for golf courses. At close centres perforated pipes were laid; these double for pitch drainage and through them air can be either pumped or sucked. Humidity detectors in the root zone of the turf show the groundsmen when the pitch is too humid and needs drying out, or is too dry and requires watering. Another benefit of the system is that
air can be pumped direct to the base of the turf, thereby oxygenating the root zone and increasing turf growth.

 

[jrb]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

So it's staying then. Hmmm. Change of plan/s?

Gone in.

Address:

City Of Manchester Stadium Sports City Visitors Centre Rowsley Street Beswick Manchester M11 3FF

Proposal:

Permanent retention of 2-storey office building previously granted temporary consent under planning permission 089150/FO/2009/N2.

<a class="postlink" href="http://pa.manchester.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=M5AE62BC6K000" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://pa.manchester.gov.uk/online-appl ... E62BC6K000</a>

Design and Access Statement.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.publicaccess.manchester.gov.uk/associateddocs/selecteddoc.aspx?099588-dsx-0001.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.publicaccess.manchester.gov. ... x-0001.pdf</a>

Location of building.

[bigimg]http://i.imgur.com/7mCsI.jpg[/bigimg]

Ownership plan. ?

[bigimg]http://i.imgur.com/irQMx.jpg[/bigimg]

 

[Rammyblues]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

Thanks Jrb.

 

[mostonbluemark]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

If i knew how to post links i'd have posted from the Public Access section about those offices.

Trying to work out whether its good news or bad news. Good news in the fact that there is now no room for this on the collar site. Wasn't it to be part of an office scheme on the stadium side of the bridge?

Or, bad news that there isn't enough interest in take up of office space!

Hopefully the first part.

 

[mannycity]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

The city at home offices could end up being a future ticketing office,souvenir shop may move closer to the front part of the stadium close to the ticket offices as the 2 go together,

These changes will then facilitate our owners plans behind the north stand,I,e, stadium expansion and the fanzone (eating and drinking outlets) ?

 

[nickson71]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

how long was the original temp status for the offices?

May that is coming to and end and we have to do something as we don't have anywhere else to put the staff from those offices.

If the plans for extending the stadium have been popped on hold with the training campus coming first then we'll still need the offices for a while longer

 

[pride in battle]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

Got to be the new museum....

 

[jrb]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

Place North West.

Gove names next round of free schools

16 Jul 2012, 09:05

Urban Splash, Manchester City FC and Big Life Group, publisher of Big Issue in the North, were among successful applicants for the next wave of the government's free schools on Friday.

Education Secretary Michel Gove approved 102 free schools to open in England from 2013 onwards.

In New Islington, east Manchester, partners Urban Splash, Manchester Grammar School and Manchester City Council will open a new primary school, mixed and comprehensive, as part of its ongoing development of the area.

The Big Life Group will open Longsight Community Primary, also in Manchester. The group already runs children's centres and community projects across Greater Manchester to help disadvantaged people. It says the primary school will have a 'strong behaviour policy' and sits 'in an area of Manchester which has high levels of deprivation, and an expected shortage of primary places.'

Collective Spirit in Oldham will be for 11 to 16-year-olds and have a 'faith sensitive' ethos but will not allocate pupil places on the basis of faith. Year groups will be small, and a mixture of lecture-style teaching and small group work will be used to deliver the academic curriculum.

The group behind the proposals is made up of community leaders and education professionals who propose to work with a number of faith groups.

The Connell Sixth Form College will be a co-educational 16 to 19 sixth form college for 600 pupils in east Manchester, and is proposed by Altrincham Grammar School for Girls. Manchester City FC is a key partner in bringing forward these proposals. The club is supportive of proposals for the new Sixth Form College, not only to meet the needs of the local area but also to provide educational opportunities for its 30 football scholars from the club's new football academy. The club has set aside facilities to support the new sixth form college, including access to one of the 17 new football pitches being established adjacent to the college site.

Twenty-four free schools opened in 2011 and a further 65 were approved in the previous application round. Around 50 groups are aiming to open in September 2012 - and others will follow in 2013 or 2014. The majority of the 102 schools approved on Friday will aim to open in September 2013.

 

[Rammyblues]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

City ruining education since 2008. :-)

 

[dawlish dave]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

Place North West.

Gove names next round of free schools

16 Jul 2012, 09:05

Urban Splash, Manchester City FC and Big Life Group, publisher of Big Issue in the North, were among successful applicants for the next wave of the government's free schools on Friday.

Education Secretary Michel Gove approved 102 free schools to open in England from 2013 onwards.

In New Islington, east Manchester, partners Urban Splash, Manchester Grammar School and Manchester City Council will open a new primary school, mixed and comprehensive, as part of its ongoing development of the area.

The Big Life Group will open Longsight Community Primary, also in Manchester. The group already runs children's centres and community projects across Greater Manchester to help disadvantaged people. It says the primary school will have a 'strong behaviour policy' and sits 'in an area of Manchester which has high levels of deprivation, and an expected shortage of primary places.'

Collective Spirit in Oldham will be for 11 to 16-year-olds and have a 'faith sensitive' ethos but will not allocate pupil places on the basis of faith. Year groups will be small, and a mixture of lecture-style teaching and small group work will be used to deliver the academic curriculum.

The group behind the proposals is made up of community leaders and education professionals who propose to work with a number of faith groups.

The Connell Sixth Form College will be a co-educational 16 to 19 sixth form college for 600 pupils in east Manchester, and is proposed by Altrincham Grammar School for Girls. Manchester City FC is a key partner in bringing forward these proposals. The club is supportive of proposals for the new Sixth Form College, not only to meet the needs of the local area but also to provide educational opportunities for its 30 football scholars from the club's new football academy. The club has set aside facilities to support the new sixth form college, including access to one of the 17 new football pitches being established adjacent to the college site.

Twenty-four free schools opened in 2011 and a further 65 were approved in the previous application round. Around 50 groups are aiming to open in September 2012 - and others will follow in 2013 or 2014. The majority of the 102 schools approved on Friday will aim to open in September 2013.

No doubt this will be all over the MEN,mabe Andy Mitten could be asked to write the piece.