Re: REDS STADIUM UPDATE PICS..... : Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:05 pm  

PHIPPS wrote:

I'm wondering how long it is before your signature gets removed??!

its bloody good while it lasts though

Re: REDS STADIUM UPDATE PICS..... : Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:00 am  

Roverswall wrote:

If the AUD was so strong and the GBP so weak they would be around 1-1 , That isn't the case.
Recovered, Decent, yes.
Killing, no.

Are you having a laugh!!! Before I go on I am a Brit living in Sydney.
The reason why the AUD has strengthen so much over the last three years is due to China. The resources sector over here are feeding China's never ending energy and raw material needs. In fact, I know of two things for certain as colleagues are in the know and work with clients in these sectors.

- The mining companies can not extract the raw material fast enough to meet China's demand.
- If you go to the Central coast (100km north of Sydney) you will see the longest cargo ship queue in the world (visable from google earth aswell. These are all empty Chinese cargo/coal ships waiting to go into Newcastle for their load. Newcastle Ports just can not fill up the damned things fast enough!! This is the same of all Ports around Australia.

In addition to this the reserve bank of Australia have kept interest rates low, and have historically not encouraged a debt society. Together with exports remaining high due to the growth of China this ensured that Aus did not go into reccession, and suffice to say that the Australian Dollar is now a major player in the world banking due to the strength of it.

When I got here in 2006, it was 3.04GBP to the dollar. Now it is 1.54, and I am loving sending all my spare AUD's back to pay off my UK motgage with my place in London. It is free money!!!

Re: REDS STADIUM UPDATE PICS..... : Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:23 am  

damn you.....

Re: REDS STADIUM UPDATE PICS..... : Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:35 am  

Odemwingie wrote:

It's looking great, good to know it is actually being built.

Suppose if they put a pitch down they can move in as soon as that stand is built!

As the original photographs of the site were in sepia its about time.

Any new grounds in our sport are welcome and will look good when on TV. Hopefully they can find a way of filling the the stadium.

Re: REDS STADIUM UPDATE PICS..... : Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:42 pm  

John S wrote:

As the original photographs of the site were in sepia its about time.

Any new grounds in our sport are welcome and will look good when on TV. Hopefully they can find a way of filling the the stadium.

...and it is not yet definitely going to be built... it has taken a big leap but now they need to get planning on Wheldon Road for a Superstore!

Re: REDS STADIUM UPDATE PICS..... : Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:44 pm  

RED LEAGUE wrote:

Mate you don't have a clue really do you, i work for one of the biggest construction firms in the country and this is how its done with every stadium using crane's and cherry pickers. Have you actually drove past the stadium on a week day? There's maybe 6 or 7 cherry pickers and normally 3 crane's working on there, when works finished the cherrys are stored at the back of the west stand, and the mobile crane's go back to the depot, theirs only one perminant heavy duty crane that is used for the lifting of the steel uprights and other heavy materials.

Ooooh. Touchy. Are you one of these new fangled graduates who builds out of a book?

If we want to wave our construction cocks in the air then fine, lets get em out. I've been at it 22 years and worked on 3 stadia projects previously, tendered works on another couple and every one had the piling, groundworks, steel, terrace, cladding sequence following each other on each stand running consectivly and concurrently. We even had more than one big crane you know. Some of them had 2 or 3 100 tonne mobiles, on top of the boys toys and cherry pickers that get put away at night with Rolly Lofty and Scoop.

That stand looks like its steelwork is 95% complete, great progress. Whats the erectors doing now? Steel erectors don't want to be messing about with precast units, netting, and cladding. Yon mon before makes it sound like there's the same 6 blokes building the lot in sequence. You will know full well they fetch different subbies in for different tasks, the precast suppliers often carry out design and fix, the cladders are often different to the erectors, the netters will be someone else. Steel erectors want tonnage and the tonnage in that stand was completed weeks ago.

I'm sure if they tried they could build more than one at once, like Hull, Wire, Darlington, Shrewsbury, Leigh (I wont bore you why the Reebok had to be done like that)...especially as your groundworkers have been on there since December! 4 months later there is only steel in one of the stands. Thats 16 weeks. Hull was at PC within 48. When you're hammering it the groundworkers should be on GL20, erectors right up their backsides on GL15, precast on GL10, cladders on GL5, netters on 1.

If you can only build it one stand at once, fair enough, there may be good reason for it, but don't go all girly when someone points it out.

Re: REDS STADIUM UPDATE PICS..... : Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:51 pm  

Oh and while I'm at it, orange bunting and road pins is not suitable edge protection to excavations (which must be deep because there is a bloody ladder needed to get into them which is not fix and tied I might add) and would get condemned on one of my jobs.

Re: REDS STADIUM UPDATE PICS..... : Wed Apr 13, 2011 6:52 am  

Alexs Dad wrote:

Ooooh. Touchy. Are you one of these new fangled graduates who builds out of a book?

No, he's a bricklayer. True story.

Re: REDS STADIUM UPDATE PICS..... : Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:14 am  

Ian 77 Redux wrote:

No, he's a bricklayer. True story.

Good memory! Actually im a site agent now after 3 years of Uni and lots and lots of courses.

Re: REDS STADIUM UPDATE PICS..... : Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:43 am  

RED LEAGUE wrote:

Good memory! Actually im a site agent now after 3 years of Uni and lots and lots of courses.

Good for you pal (seriously, not trying to be funny on this occasion!).