Depending on how late you head over, you may see a naked 35-year old sacrificing a goat while chanting the CU fight song. You can just go ahead and ignore that.
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Official Construction Update Thread
- Thread starter Darth Snow
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Depending on how late you head over, you may see a naked 35-year old sacrificing a goat while chanting the CU fight song. You can just go ahead and ignore that.
somebody
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I was looking for an overhead shot - bet you can get a good one from the top of the crane.
The band should drown out anything you are doing on the 50. I hope.
FlatironsBuff
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So you are saying that the band will start silencing the lambs?
Anyone remember the drunk CU student who climbed onto a construction crane, I think when they were building the law school, and got himself killed? I think he was swinging on the cable and hit a wall or something.
Yes I was attending CU at the time.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3285545
Apparently he wasn't a student and it was the crane for the ATLAS building.
They start that on the 29th. BTW for those going to the showdown, CU plays half time first and their final song is CSU's first song. Would be nice to uh... let CSU know they are doing a poor job.
Nothing stood out tonight about the construction, looked like they were done working for the day. The NE corner looks BIG in person. The endzone construction, is not a noticeable change because they really just replaced the metal bleachers but the quality looks much better than the metal.
Ah, thanks for the clarification.
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everything is cool.
Everything is awesome when your part of a team!
Invisibility cloak...(on iPad). Works on desktop :/
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Looks like they are going to build form it exactly like they did the loge boxes. Big stair step forms, pour concrete, put foam in, form work, pour concrete. If they have the same size crew working over there as they did on the endzone expansion, things will be happening very quickly. I think they are gonna make it. Someone brought up the 28 day curing earlier and I think they will be fine. Concrete needs 28days to reach 90% design strength. However at about 14days it reaches 80%. The main support beams and columns will all be well past 28days so I think as far as safety is concerned the concrete will be more than ready to take the load of a few hundred people in that corner.
Very excited to see the seats go in and to see the new seating sections done. Won't be long now.
They must be using high early strength concrete. The two rake beams were poured and stripped in 2 days. Yeah, you're correct, I'm pretty sure, on the construction being similar to the loge area. It looks like they'll have the deck and wall forms in place today. It's fun watching the progress during the day. I just realized you can hover over the calendar and the photo times come up and you can click on them to view progress in 15 minute (+/-) increments.
They are also starting scaffolding on the upper deck. They have to continue the bleacher deck all the way to those back columns, I think.
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Damn is Bob the Builder leading construction efforts?
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Also just noticed they are grading, and preparing the exposed dirt on the original bowl. Looks like they will be replacing that concrete and bleachers in the near term as well.
I noticed that. I also just realized that, while they are forming up the middle tier of seating, they still have to do the lower and upper tiers. So, they will be building scaffolding below and above the stuff they are forming right now.
With the way the seating is going to be hanging over the side like it is formed right now, it looks like there is going to be some kind of wall there. I think. Or maybe it is just an overhang, not sure.
Yeah. I think you'll see 'em build a vertical form along the left side right in line with the columns below. If you noticed, the rebar from the columns extends up to tie into the slab and probable wall.
are they doing loge boxes in the corner? Didn't think they were, but the forms they are building look closer to those than the bleacher seats in the endzone.
Here's one on the Contractor's web site. You can see the bleachers do not extend all the way to the field. This one's probably more accurate than the one above. No overhang above the north end zone stands. So the wall at the left end extends all the way from the ground up.
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Styrofoam will be used again to make them look more like bleachers.
what the hell is with that weird space between the new building and the bowl? weird lookin. Also, wasted space. something they cut out to save $? Should be easy to expand there, no?Here's one on the Contractor's web site. You can see the bleachers do not extend all the way to the field. This one's probably more accurate than the one above. No overhang above the north end zone stands. So the wall at the left end extends all the way from the ground up.
The seats here are not normal seats. Those are also club seats so they are very worried about sight lines. Another issue is the angle that they are approaching the lower bowl makes it almost impossible to continue them down and fill in that space.
After thinking about it a second, I wonder if that space is going to kind of be a staging area for ralphie and her truck.
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The first one that DBT posted looks much better for a couple of reasons. One, the enclosure goes all the way around from the east stands to the alley where the team comes out. There's no big gap like snow just mentioned. Secondly, it looks much better with the stands coming all the way to the field in the NE corner