North Stand Construction Discussion

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Thanks SS Skies, another great video. Looks as though they are fixing some yellow anchoring points into the open slots in the terracing.
 
HelloCity said:
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The ‘temporary’ corners really do ruin the streamlined look of the stadium at the South Stand end. I think the club were probably guilty of thinking too far ahead in the future thinking the sides would be done 10-15 years after the first expansion but in reality any move to expand the sides is probably that amount of years even from now.

With the North Stand expansion they’ve avoiding doing the temp corners, probably because of how rough they look. I just hope, as some have said will happen, that in the summer they put up some screens at the South Stand end to at least cover them up somewhat.

There seats in those corners at the bottom will be below the screens position so there shouldn’t be an issue there, however, there are disabled seats higher up and perhaps they could be reallocated to the new spots in the north stand expansion.
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Long term modelling of the stadium should take out the current CBL3 and ESL3, and wrap SSL3 round to have three identical stands and then the North Stand as a standalone end.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Long term modelling of the stadium should take out the current CBL3 and ESL3, and wrap SSL3 round to have three identical stands and then the North Stand as a standalone end.
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This HAS to be done soon and the Etihad made into the best and biggest stadium in the country. Looking at Madrid as an example if we want to be the best then we have to have a statement stadium.
 
JOGAMIGMOG said:
This HAS to be done soon and the Etihad made into the best and biggest stadium in the country. Looking at Madrid as an example if we want to be the best then we have to have a statement stadium.
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Would it make it that?

It would be good to see how many each of the tiers holds at the Etihad. SSL3 holds 7,000 (don’t know if that’s exactly 7k, it probably isn’t). Having what’s in SSL3 along CBL3 and ESL3 would probably be about 8,500 each as the sides are longer than an end.

But that’s only on top of what currently exists.
Way back when we first moved, I vaguely remember 5,000 being the figure of the size of CBL3 and ESL3… can anyone confirm? So you’d take that away from what the expansion would be. Which would be around 3,500 more each.

So that would make the eventual stadium hold around 69,000.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Would it make it that?

It would be good to see how many each of the tiers holds at the Etihad. SSL3 holds 7,000 (don’t know if that’s exactly 7k, it probably isn’t). Having what’s in SSL3 along CBL3 and ESL3 would probably be about 8,500 each as the sides are longer than an end.

But that’s only on top of what currently exists.
Way back when we first moved, I vaguely remember 5,000 being the figure of the size of CBL3 and ESL3… can anyone confirm? So you’d take that away from what the expansion would be. Which would be around 3,500 more each.

So that would make the eventual stadium hold around 69,000.
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SS3 is approx 5750. The work you are talking about would be an astronomical cost.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Would it make it that?

It would be good to see how many each of the tiers holds at the Etihad. SSL3 holds 7,000 (don’t know if that’s exactly 7k, it probably isn’t). Having what’s in SSL3 along CBL3 and ESL3 would probably be about 8,500 each as the sides are longer than an end.

But that’s only on top of what currently exists.
Way back when we first moved, I vaguely remember 5,000 being the figure of the size of CBL3 and ESL3… can anyone confirm? So you’d take that away from what the expansion would be. Which would be around 3,500 more each.

So that would make the eventual stadium hold around 69,000.
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They aren’t doing a side expansion for 3,500 extra seats. It would have to be a minimum of what SSL3 added on top of the current capacity.
 
HelloCity said:
They aren’t doing a side expansion for 3,500 extra seats. It would have to be a minimum of what SSL3 added on top of the current capacity.
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The plans I saw would take the capacity up to 85000 min. along with a significant increase in corporate/F&B .....13000+ on increased capacity .

Amongst the reasons this may make sense is that the potential expansion will be built largely within the footprint of the current stadium, and on land that club already owns.
 
Gone for a Burton said:
The plans I saw would take the capacity up to 85000 min. along with a significant increase in corporate/F&B .....13000+ on increased capacity .

Amongst the reasons this may make sense is that the potential expansion will be built largely within the footprint of the current stadium, and on land that club already owns.
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Extra >25k split across the two sides is almost doubling the capacity (when the NS is open) of each side, this would mean extensive works at a great cost
 
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Gone for a Burton said:
The plans I saw would take the capacity up to 85000 min. along with a significant increase in corporate/F&B .....13000+ on increased capacity .

Amongst the reasons this may make sense is that the potential expansion will be built largely within the footprint of the current stadium, and on land that club already owns.
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How would the current infrastructure cope with 85k?

It is already a bloody nightmare leaving the stadium with the present capacity.
 
Gray said:
How would the current infrastructure cope with 85k?

It is already a bloody nightmare leaving the stadium with the present capacity.
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The tax payer can fund the improvement of the infrastructure around the ground.

Ask Jim, he knows how to get tax payers money. ;-)
 
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Gray said:
How would the current infrastructure cope with 85k?

It is already a bloody nightmare leaving the stadium with the present capacity.
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It 'copes' with almost that number twixt a game and an event.

The rail infrastructure is currently under review by external consultants who are analysing 3 potential options on operational, infrastructure, usage and cost grounds.

Impossible to predict the outcome, but the opportunity's do exist.
 
MrCheeseGrater said:
Wonder if these time lapses will ever be publicly released? It's a shame there's no live stream of the build like there was for the arena.

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Site Eye Time-lapse Films

Time-lapse cameras for long-term construction projects
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Site-Eye don't normally post or release the videos online to the public. I've seen a few of these signs over the years on different construction sites, mainly in the city centre, but I've never found the videos via an online link, bar their Youtube website. As the sign says, the videos are for management purposes only.(sadly)

Here's Site-Eye's Youtube website. Spurs new stadium is on it. Site-Eye would have got permission from the companies to post their videos in on their YouTube, Site-Eye website.


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Site-Eye Time-Lapse Films

This is the official Youtube channel for Site-Eye Time-Lapse Films. Site-Eye is the UK's leading time-lapse production company, providing fully managed time-lapse filming services for construction and infrastructure projects in the UK and worldwide..
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