North Stand Construction Discussion

[HelloCity]

Seem to be progressing at a rapid rate. I can’t remember the South Stand going up as quick as this is.

They didn’t start putting steel up until August 2014 but it did go up quite quickly from there.

2 month difference from August to October from pic 1 to pics 2/3.

 

[DiscoSteve]

Did they take the reverse angled poles out too on the South Stand? I really can't remember.

 

[tailspin747]

Did they take the reverse angled poles out too on the South Stand? I really can't remember.

No, they’re still there. They built a new support around them to hold the new roof.

 

[tailspin747]

 

[Gray]

Steelwork and concrete terracing can go up in next to no time at all, fitting out takes the time

 

[HelloCity]

Did they take the reverse angled poles out too on the South Stand? I really can't remember.

They built around them. The angle of the third tier is built so that the supports don’t interfere with the stand and the cables pass through the stand between terracing and roof.

At the North Stand end the rake of the tier means the supports would be blocked by the terracing and sky bar so they had to develop the solution where the supports were removed and the cables clamped to the new towers.

 

[tailspin747]

Interestingly, they could extend back with the third tiers of the east & west stands without removing the towers. There’s quite a bit of space. If you assume that they’d only go back as for as the supports, it would be far less complex than the North & South stand builds (I think ).

 

[HelloCity]

Interestingly, they could extend back with the third tiers of the east & west stands without removing the towers. There’s quite a bit of space. If you assume that they’d only go back as for as the supports, it would be far less complex than the North & South stand builds (I think ).

The sides would be far more difficult than either of the ends. The club have even spoken out this year about how hard it will be to increase the capacity further when the North Stand is completed.

The masts on top of the spirals are a bottleneck and they’re also much higher up than the end supports meaning a clamping solution would be difficult. With those cables in place you also wonder where a new roof would even go - you’d think above the cables but you can’t build that high because of the masts...

As long as the original cable net remains in place they also won’t be able to do the corners since the cables come in from all 4 of them.

 

[tailspin747]

The sides would be far more difficult than either of the ends. The club have even spoken out this year about how hard it will be to increase the capacity further when the North Stand is completed.

The masts on top of the spirals are a bottleneck and they’re also much higher up than the end supports meaning a clamping solution would be difficult. With those cables in place you also wonder where a new roof would even go - you’d think above the cables but you can’t build that high because of the masts...

As long as the original cable net remains in place they also won’t be able to do the corners since the cables come in from all 4 of them.

Fair point. I’m talking about not going beyond the masts though. If you use them as a limit point then you don’t need to clamp them, merely leave them in place to support the net. It’s a compromised expansion in terms of max exploitation of capacity, but it would allow an expansion.

You’re right, the roof angle would be a huge issue though. Bringing cables through a roof would end up with a Swamp style water feature

Unless (and I’m not sure the viewing angles would work) the new roof beams sat just under the cable-net. If it worked then the new roof would sit under the current cables.

All just blue-sky thinking, but definitely not as simple as I first thought

 

[tailspin747]

That’s how I’d imagine it. No idea of that would work and also, the support for the new roof would have to be built around the spirals. Most likely too complex and maybe not worth it for the added amount of seats.