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Fowl!

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Snow is pretty rare in London. And short lived.

It's in the margin. Our weather prevails over a huge thermal reservoir

We look west. That's the way it always will be.
 

danielneeds

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There's loads of work that can be done at 0ºC and with 2cm of lying snow, which is what we had in North London today. The main thing you can't do is to pour concrete and I think they're primarily busy with other operations now.

The dreaded "cold winter" you are concerned about would be 4 weeks of continuous hard frost (e.g., -5ºC), with no thaw during the days and 20cm of persistent lying snow. This is nothing.
So what you are saying is - we know nothing, Jon Snow...?
 

Trees

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There's loads of work that can be done at 0ºC and with 2cm of lying snow, which is what we had in North London today. The main thing you can't do is to pour concrete and I think they're primarily busy with other operations now.

The dreaded "cold winter" you are concerned about would be 4 weeks of continuous hard frost (e.g., -5ºC), with no thaw during the days and 20cm of persistent lying snow. This is nothing.
Point taken, and you know more about the stadium than I do. However, its not only work on site such as groundworks, its getting personnel to site aswell.
 

BujuBanton

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Chaps. I have no experience in construction, and to me the trees in the south stand look like they would fold under the weight of the steel and terrace above them.

Is it unusual for structural supports to be shaped like these?
 

worcestersauce

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Chaps. I have no experience in construction, and to me the trees in the south stand look like they would fold under the weight of the steel and terrace above them.

Is it unusual for structural supports to be shaped like these?
I did wonder but the raker steelwork they just placed on one of them is attached to the main south stand structure which effectively means that the trees are not free standing, flying buttresses spring to mind.
 

SlotBadger

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Amazing, and with the curvature it's going to be even higher in the middle section.



Question for @BedfordshireSpud - would you like some tips on how to scroll using a smartphone? :D

Edit: just seen you've previously mentioned that you have arthritis, so apologies. Just wanted to highlight the fact you may have accidentally neg-rated the informative posts I've quoted.
 
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Dougal

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Chaps. I have no experience in construction, and to me the trees in the south stand look like they would fold under the weight of the steel and terrace above them.

Is it unusual for structural supports to be shaped like these?
Ah fuck it, we’ll take a chance. What’s the worst that can happen?
 

BedfordshireSpud

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Question for @BedfordshireSpud - would you like some tips on how to scroll using a smartphone? :D

Edit: just seen you've previously mentioned that you have arthritis, so apologies. Just wanted to highlight the fact you may have accidentally neg-rated the informative posts I've quoted.
Sorry about that. I want you to know though that in undoing the rating I have probably inadvertently given half a dozen others neg ratings.

Life is so complicated, plus I have been fretting this past couple of weeks as they haven't been getting on with the steelwork to the South East and West Stands. I hope it doesn't delay the roof which is critical path.
 

dovahkiin

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some bits from tonights fans forum from crocket on ftl:
Levy kept his cards close to his chest but said 100% it will be ready. A lot of the internal stuff is close to completion in certain areas i.e boxes
Poch & Hugo both said they're here for the long haul
They didn't say one way or the other but from both Poch & Levy 's reaction, Bale could be on the radar!
 

dovahkiin

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punkyguy on skyscrapercity: 1. I forget what the actual question was but Levy said "The stadium *will* be ready". Those words with slight emphasis on the "will". No caveats or anything.

2. Someone said the stadium is too small. He was initially to be 56k but is now "around 61 and a half thousand" Exact words. He then said There should be a few more seats in here-and-there before it's finished, which seems astonishing that they are making changes so late. He said that the big issue was transport and intimated that it was really hard to 61k past the council.
 

LukaMotion

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punkyguy on skyscrapercity: 1. I forget what the actual question was but Levy said "The stadium *will* be ready". Those words with slight emphasis on the "will". No caveats or anything.

2. Someone said the stadium is too small. He was initially to be 56k but is now "around 61 and a half thousand" Exact words. He then said There should be a few more seats in here-and-there before it's finished, which seems astonishing that they are making changes so late. He said that the big issue was transport and intimated that it was really hard to 61k past the council.

It would be nice if levy could squeeze in enough extra seats to make it 61,882 capacity, referencing the founding year.
 
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