New Stadium

[Nick "Trevor" Sharp]

Anyone know how much of the concrete is precast vs cast in place? I did concrete work for 10 years and would shudder to think of having to do all of that cast in place.

Essentially the entirety of the cores were cast in place (so all the walls of the six main structures) plus the slabs/floors, whilst all of the rakers, terraces and vomitory walls were precast.

There was a question over whether the rakers for the South end of the East stand (which couldn't be put into place in sequence due to the old Paxton being in the way) would be cast in place, as the overhanging tier would get in the way of installing a precast unit. But, we're still to see on that one I think; I would be surprised if they weren't precast though.

 

[ArcspacE]

It could pass for the Emirates.

It most certainly couldn't - Emirates has a floating / lifted roof canopy

 

[1882]

It most certainly couldn't - Emirates has a floating / lifted roof canopy

...and the other main difference is that it's full of cunts every fortnight!
(Except when WE play there... then it's 97% full of cunts!)

 

[JakeYIDDO]

it's full of cunts every fortnight!

full? it's on par with the Emptihad most the time

 

[Johnboy40]

It could pass for the Emirates.

Except they play champions league games there

 

[ArcspacE]

Except they play champions league games there

 

[Achilles]

I was more wondering about any of the terraced seating areas. Just general curiosity because of my previous work experience.

 

[hiatus]

I was more wondering about any of the terraced seating areas. Just general curiosity because of my previous work experience.

Came in on trucks precast.

 

[Hamilton]

.....But Shad Khan is quite literally an American citizen....of Pakistani birth....who has numerous times stated he has no intention of leaving Jacksonville....he's none of the things you say.

In hindsight I should have taken 10 seconds on google before posting, I was parroting what some guy on a bus told me and that's a dumb thing to do. Although he does own Fulham and the Jaguars do play in London what feels like every fucking year.

 

[Spanish Spur]

The NFL has started to experience serious declines in revenue thanks to a variety of factors

And because it is boring as fuck live. I went to one of my local NFL team's games once. The tailgating before was fun but the stadium experience was dreadful. We were so high up you'd have needed binoculars to see the play. The crowd were so uninterested, they had to pipe fake crowd sounds through the speakers (be thankful it stopped at a drum for Spurs!). Beer was shit and expensive. Food, drab. Tickets 80 bucks. Some of our group stayed at the tailgating during the game. I wish I had. Thanks, but no thanks NFL.

 

[MemphisWill]

In hindsight I should have taken 10 seconds on google before posting, I was parroting what some guy on a bus told me and that's a dumb thing to do. Although he does own Fulham and the Jaguars do play in London what feels like every fucking year.

It's cool, it's just one of the things that really grates on me because I've heard that line numerous times despite the fact that Khan is very much the embodiment of what we constantly claim America is all about. Immigrated from Pakistan as a teenager, studied industrial engineering at UIUC while working his way through college, had a successful startup a few years after college and bought the company he originally worked for and built them into a multibillion dollar manufacturing conglomerate. He is absolutely the kind of shining example of a self-made successful American citizen we should be showing to our children and speaking of with pride...and yet most Americans think he's some British/Indian aristocrat who bought an NFL team to move it to London.

 

[sammyspurs]

Wembley pitch looks trash tonight so Im glad we have a retractable pitch for NFL.
Cant wait til the new ground is built.

Was told by a Chelsea fan that they will be there for THREE years at that crap hole....made me feel a whole lot better

 

[Steed_Train]

Wembley pitch looks trash tonight so Im glad we have a retractable pitch for NFL.
Cant wait til the new ground is built.

Was told by a Chelsea fan that they will be there for THREE years at that crap hole....made me feel a whole lot better

Fuck that, one month has been bad enough.

It's not even just the ground, it's the stupid 1 hour pre game curfew, lack of decent pubs after, the scrum for the train

 

[78Spur]

Fuck that, one month has been bad enough.

It's not even just the ground, it's the stupid 1 hour pre game curfew, lack of decent pubs after, the scrum for the train

Yeah but it does take me 2 hours less in travelling time, so you know, swings, roundabouts and shit...

It's a shithole but a convenient shithole nonetheless.....

 

[Super Jan Fan]

The rust is only surface deep and will cease when the building is watertight.
It will also require fire protection, probably an Intumescent Coating or similar which will seal the exposed steel.

Thanks, my limited experience with rust is that it spreads and once it's there it's virtually impossible to get rid of and stop. Mind you, my experience is with cars which are obviously more exposed to moisture and salt than the stadium will be.

 

[MemphisWill]

Thanks, my limited experience with rust is that it spreads and once it's there it's virtually impossible to get rid of and stop. Mind you, my experience is with cars which are obviously more exposed to moisture and salt than the stadium will be.

Also dealing with far thinner sections in an auto body/frame. Steel in buildings is far more resilient - basically if it's powdery on the top you're looking at surface rust whose impact to integrity is virtually nil. When you see flakey rust they you're losing actual steel mass and impacting integrity. Steel usually arrives to the job with surface rust, because you'll be welding/bolting connections to it in the field so any sort of coating will be an issue.

About to start work on a forensic remediation on a project involving the latter...word came down today and I had to hide my chubby.

 

[Park Lane Mark Twain]

Not sure if it's been covered but the wheels get rolled out on some railing it seems. Where do these railings go when the NFL pitch is in use. They seem like they are part of the ground which would definitely be an issue for the middle part of the pitch. The only thing I can think of is that the railings the wheels are on are temporary railings. Does anyone have a clue regarding this?

 

[MemphisWill]

Not sure if it's been covered but the wheels get rolled out on some railing it seems. Where do these railings go when the NFL pitch is in use. They seem like they are part of the ground which would definitely be an issue for the middle part of the pitch. The only thing I can think of is that the railings the wheels are on are temporary railings. Does anyone have a clue regarding this?

They're hidden under the nfl field per that demo video pages back. They'll have some astroturf panels to cover them up when the field is rolled back for the nfl.

 

[Park Lane Mark Twain]

They're hidden under the nfl field per that demo video pages back. They'll have some astroturf panels to cover them up when the field is rolled back for the nfl.

Will that not effect the playing conditions of the NFL pitch? Seems a bit risky I can only imagine they must be pretty deep and that the NFL pitch squeezes together like the pitch above it will

 

[MemphisWill]

Will that not effect the playing conditions of the NFL pitch? Seems a bit risky I can only imagine they must be pretty deep and that the NFL pitch squeezes together like the pitch above it will

Most NFL stadiums have removable astroturf fields now that are only put down for games. If they can fit natural living turf and soil together without seams, I'm sure doing the same with astroturf will be much simpler.

At the end of the day player safety really isn't a true concern of the NFL, if it was they'd pull the pads off and maybe save some of these players' lives.