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Lighty64

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Yeah I can imagine Levy turning up like the Godfather to give them an offer they can't refuse

that offer is "i'm going to have your nuts chopped if you don't get this stadium finished for the City game".

either that or we are looking to be in the shit with the PL, as we haven't got anywhere to play them
 

Blackrat1299

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Why don't the powers to be tell the truth. At the moment all sides are blameing everybody, when it appears to be one person, The Building Control officer.
I hate it when people cannot take reponsibility for their errors/mistakes/fuckups. A complete lack of moral fibre. And I am not being naive, I lived in the world of responsibility for a long time, in an area when peoples lives mattered. Some people need to get a grip.
 

shelfboy68

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Message I got from a contractor friend of mine is that 35 out of 300 fire loops are working at the stadium and one contractor has been told to put 50 men on site for 3-4 month's.
 

coys200

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Message I got from a contractor friend of mine is that 35 out of 300 fire loops are working at the stadium and one contractor has been told to put 50 men on site for 3-4 month's.

Could the 3-4 months not involve the other buildings though ? And I’m sure even after we host 1st game they’ll still probably be a few months work left. I guess anything now NFL related as in changing rooms will be left.
 

SandroClegane

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So many people coming out now with news of this and that being delayed
Everyone wants credit for it being delayed, this is the weirdest phenomenon I've ever seen.

Everyone "was right" about it being delayed the last time but no one knew the actual reason it was going to be delayed.

Now everyone knows exactly why it was delayed and how much longer it's gonna be. Because if they're right they can say "i told you so".
 

whitesocks

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Message I got from a contractor friend of mine is that 35 out of 300 fire loops are working at the stadium and one contractor has been told to put 50 men on site for 3-4 month's.
That seems low - the West, North and half the East stand have had a long time to have the internals fitted out and tested.

What I can't understand is Mace knew the project was running late - Levy himself told us that the roof going up in Jan would be a good indicator if we were on schedule (it was months late) - why didn't they focus on getting 3 stands good to go, and leave the North stand for after?

In the first plans, we were going to be playing in a 3 stand stadium for a season, so it is not that unthinkable.
I know that would be pretty awful for those with season tickets there, and I'm not sure that seats could be found for everyone, but as it is, we are looking at staying at Wembley for another full season.

Maybe that was the undisclosed plan and this officer has vetoed the idea. That would make sense.
 

davidmatzdorf

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Jun 7, 2004
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Interesting comment: All the works are behind inside the stadium. Daniel Levy gave the contract to his brother-in-law for all the interior work (Base) that’s what I was told by people inside the stadium. Mace got the exterior and supposedly ain’t that far from completion.
Complete rubbish. Base are doing the Paxton building (ticket office) and the interior of the shop/experience only.
Mace are doing the stadium. Base aren't involved in that at all.
I think this is worth reinforcing. Mace aren't "doing the exterior". They aren't contractors at all. They're construction managers. They have overall responsibility for the entire stadium build - everything from the deepest piled foundations to the cockerel on the roof. That means they also have overall responsibility for whatever bits Base (I've never heard of them) have been subcontracted to do.

Whoever cooked up the comment about Base is talking through his/her arse.

The stadium was never going to be finished by 15 September. It was going to be ready to hold a football match, until Mace or the building control inspector or someone else discovered problems with the fire safety systems. That's plainly what's happened here - we're getting broadly consistent versions from all directions. The rest is paranoid guesswork.
 

davidmatzdorf

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There's just too much ignorant nonsense on this thread. I don't have time to refute it all. It's just one paranoid extrapolation and misunderstanding after another.

The fire safety system has failed tests. That's what's happened. Nothing to do with stands or exterior cladding or the whole project running late since months ago. Just the fire safety systems. That's enough to derail everything, all on its own.
 

shelfboy68

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Could the 3-4 months not involve the other buildings though ? And I’m sure even after we host 1st game they’ll still probably be a few months work left. I guess anything now NFL related as in changing rooms will be left.
Probably mate I am just passing on from someone close to it but there us a bit to do.
 

Blackrat1299

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There's just too much ignorant nonsense on this thread. I don't have time to refute it all. It's just one paranoid extrapolation and misunderstanding after another.

The fire safety system has failed tests. That's what's happened. Nothing to do with stands or exterior cladding or the whole project running late since months ago. Just the fire safety systems. That's enough to derail everything, all on its own.

Well if people came out and told the truth, we who are ignorant, would no longer be ignorant. Communication is a grat leveller.
 

shelfboy68

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That seems low - the West, North and half the East stand have had a long time to have the internals fitted out and tested.

What I can't understand is Mace knew the project was running late - Levy himself told us that the roof going up in Jan would be a good indicator if we were on schedule (it was months late) - why didn't they focus on getting 3 stands good to go, and leave the North stand for after?

In the first plans, we were going to be playing in a 3 stand stadium for a season, so it is not that unthinkable.
I know that would be pretty awful for those with season tickets there, and I'm not sure that seats could be found for everyone, but as it is, we are looking at staying at Wembley for another full season.

Maybe that was the undisclosed plan and this officer has vetoed the idea. That would make sense.
Going by the info that was passed onto me I'm not close to these works but he is being asked to really push on.
Also from a separate contractor levy asked another company to drop all their other work and work 24hrs which he couldn't commit to, plus apparently a lot of the safety items such as fire cabling are in red we have asked if we can have it in blue allegedly.
 
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