Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Fri Dec 17, 2010 7:27 pm  

lukicj wrote: Mixing the concrete with hot water is an option for cold weather pouring. Its not exactly 'thrilling' reading: http://www.na.graceconstruction.com/custom/concrete/downloads/TB_0106.pdf Yes you can theoretically do that but i don't think Buckingham's are going to hire 100's of people with burco boilers ready to mix cement do you? the stadium base will be laid by industrial concrete mixing lorries and silo's all with cold water, although was going through some of my suppliers today and found these guys? wonder if Buckingham's could use a product to the same spec as this? http://www.gamcoform.com/Chemicals/DR%2 ... s/HD50.pdf

lukicj wrote: Mixing the concrete with hot water is an option for cold weather pouring. Its not exactly 'thrilling' reading: http://www.na.graceconstruction.com/custom/concrete/downloads/TB_0106.pdf Yes you can theoretically do that but i don't think Buckingham's are going to hire 100's of people with burco boilers ready to mix cement do you? the stadium base will be laid by industrial concrete mixing lorries and silo's all with cold water, although was going through some of my suppliers today and found these guys? wonder if Buckingham's could use a product to the same spec as this? http://www.gamcoform.com/Chemicals/DR%2 ... s/HD50.pdf

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:01 am  

Pouring concrete ? I know it depends on the land to some degree but surely a stadium would require land Piling before any sort of concrete was simply poured ?

Salford City Council (building inspector) insisted after planning permission was granted my extention be piled before building could take place, I had to have eleven piles installed at an additional 25% add on to the original price of my build.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Sun Dec 19, 2010 6:15 am  

Salford red all over wrote:

Pouring concrete ? I know it depends on the land to some degree but surely a stadium would require land Piling before any sort of concrete was simply poured ?

Salford City Council (building inspector) insisted after planning permission was granted my extention be piled before building could take place, I had to have eleven piles installed at an additional 25% add on to the original price of my build.

can you please stop using the word 'piles' ? they're very painful.................

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:15 am  

Salford red all over wrote:

Pouring concrete ? I know it depends on the land to some degree but surely a stadium would require land Piling before any sort of concrete was simply poured ?

Salford City Council (building inspector) insisted after planning permission was granted my extention be piled before building could take place, I had to have eleven piles installed at an additional 25% add on to the original price of my build.

Im sure the piling has already been done? I went past a few week ago and saw numurous concrete squares plotted about where the stadium will be situated.

Those concrete squares will be going a fare few foot under the ground and will act as giant stilts to make sure the stadium doesn't sink or collapse.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Sun Dec 19, 2010 1:41 pm  

I love the fact that almost everyone on this thread has become an expert in stadia construction over the last couple of months

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Sun Dec 19, 2010 1:57 pm  

Fatboys Limb wrote:

I love the fact that almost everyone on this thread has become an expert in stadia construction over the last couple of months

I did work on the LSV i'll have you know.
Its not just stadium's which adopt this method but any big structures like the Beetham tower in manchester or the M.E.N arena. Or the most impressive of all hong kong airport which involved extending the coastline and abit dfferently but same idea had giant steel pillers bolted to the sea bed which included a man made island constructed on top of it, Which was the actual base for the new airport.

Engineering has come so far over the last hundred years.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:41 pm  

I think RedJohn worked on Offa's dyke
or it might have been Stonehenge

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:29 pm  

Bigpev wrote:

I think RedJohn worked on Offa's dyke
or it might have been Stonehenge

These pen pushers ah, don't have a jar of glue.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:36 pm  

RED LEAGUE wrote:

Im sure the piling has already been done? I went past a few week ago and saw numurous concrete squares plotted about where the stadium will be situated.

Those concrete squares will be going a fare few foot under the ground and will act as giant stilts to make sure the stadium doesn't sink or collapse.

You sure ? when my estate was built there was a massive rig on site to install the piles, (thats for houses) now all I've seen is the land being leveled. You'd hear and see piling on a site like that from quite a long way off.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:05 am  

Bigpev wrote:

I think RedJohn worked on Offa's dyke
or it might have been Stonehenge

It was Stonehenge. And all the way through we had this nutter called Starbugge running up every day telling us it was all a con to trick UNESCO (whatever that was) into making it a World Heritage Site, and how it was never going to get built.