North Stand Construction Discussion

[Bournemouth Blue]

No updates from me this week unfortunately , I’m working away until Saturday so will hopefully get one done on Sunday if the weather allows.

No problem, you do plenty for us on here and I am grateful for the updates. It will be interesting to see what will have changed this week next time you get the drone in the air.

 

[Coatigan]

No updates from me this week unfortunately , I’m working away until Saturday so will hopefully get one done on Sunday if the weather allows.

There is still a long way and plenty weeks to catch.

I'm assuming like most sites in the UK, this one will shut from the second week in December till sometime in January. So that one could be your last one till mid January.

 

[remember arthur mann]

No updates from me this week unfortunately , I’m working away until Saturday so will hopefully get one done on Sunday if the weather allows.

It's just not good enough. You need to take a sabbatical until the project is complete.

 

[traditionalleesy]

The beams on the left and right hand side of the Skybar crossmember assembly look temporary (only coated in red oxide paint). They appear to replicate the top uprights already installed on the two towers. It's going to be a challenge mating six location flanges up whilst that massive frame is suspended from the crane!

Anyway, a few more pictures.
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Would love to mate with 6 flanges

 

[HelloCity]

If they shut down construction over Christmas then I’ll head down there and carry up the next steel sections with my bare hands while jrb takes some photos.

 

[Keeper!]

Would love to mate with 6 flanges

Not long to wait and the room will be ready, I would be working on your stamina!

 

[Dial M 4 Mercer]

There is still a long way and plenty weeks to catch.

I'm assuming like most sites in the UK, this one will shut from the second week in December till sometime in January. So that one could be your last one till mid January.

If we keep losing until then it might get shut down permanently!

 

[remember arthur mann]

If they shut down construction over Christmas then I’ll head down there and carry up the next steel sections with my bare hands while jrb takes some photos.

Shirking as usual.....

 

[Coatigan]

Would love to mate with 6 flanges

Try the Title Race thread!

 

[moggymoz]

The buildings will be connected part way up to the towers so that there is a tunnel for people to pass through City Square without needing to walk all the way around.

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May be wrong but could see steel works starting at the towers and built across to the structure of the buildings. The exterior will match the design of the buildings so it all blends together.

That tunnel is going to get pretty congested on match days, it was bad enough before the North stand construction.

 

[Coatigan]

That tunnel is going to get pretty congested on match days, it was bad enough before the North stand construction.

I'm not sure the two of you are talking about the same bit. It isn't really a tunnel as such.

 

[HelloCity]

I'm not sure the two of you are talking about the same bit. It isn't really a tunnel as such.

Tunnel

1.
dig or force a passage underground or through something.

2.
PHYSICS
(of a particle) pass through a potential barrier

 

[Coatigan]

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Tunnel

1.
dig or force a passage underground or through something.

2.
PHYSICS
(of a particle) pass through a potential barrier

Yea, so not really a tunnel.

I'm not sure the post was talking about the same part though.

 

[Penders1957]

That tunnel is going to get pretty congested on match days, it was bad enough before the North stand construction.

The two links to the stand from the hotel and commercial block are already at “pinch points” so having a “roof” is surely irrelevant because the width of the passage is already defined if I’m not missing something ??

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

No problem, you do plenty for us on here and I am grateful for the updates. It will be interesting to see what will have changed this week next time you get the drone in the air.

Ss skies is due another drone update anytime soon.

 

[Penders1957]

Ss skies is due another drone update anytime soon.

I just hope it’s a daytime one !

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I just hope it’s a daytime one !

Yeah, one of his drone vlogs was almost too dark to film. He still got good footage though and the stadium looked great fom above all lit up.

 

[moggymoz]

The two links to the stand from the hotel and commercial block are already at “pinch points” so having a “roof” is surely irrelevant because the width of the passage is already defined if I’m not missing something ??

I'm talking about the perimeter around the outside of the North stand, it was chokka behind the stage with fans trying to walk through in opposite directions before and after the game and when they build the tunnel it's going to be a nightmare.

 

[Kippaxpete]

Working to BS br8 a Yorkshire standard

Nah, that'll be 'reet'.

 

[Coatigan]

I'm talking about the perimeter around the outside of the North stand, it was chokka behind the stage with fans trying to walk through in opposite directions before and after the game and when they build the tunnel it's going to be a nightmare.

That perimeter pathway isn't changing. The hotel and office are beyond the outer edge of it. The rooms that link the hotel are above the circle path.

If there is any reduction in the space there, it is the stand itself. But in fairness, there isn't really any way to extend the north stand without taking up the additional space.