IPF Announcement.. Steel up 8/13/14 pics, video

[suloyalfan]

Wow this thread has the potential to be up there with the Lucious Puseythread from back in the day. Awesome!

That thread was awesome... I don't even remember which forum we were on back then for that one.

 

[44PRIDE]

IPF ALERT: They have gone vertical! Drove by this morning and we have large metal beams standing loud and proud!!!!

 

[CuseLegacy]

And at another IPF in PA...

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  7:41 AM - 13 Aug 2014
  Pitt Football‏@GoPittFootball 24m
  Coach Chryst welcoming @buffalobills coach Doug Marrone and his team to the indoor facility for their walk through pic.twitter.com/VhlT2JBRWz

 

[UnknownOrange]

And at another IPF in PA...

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  7:41 AM - 13 Aug 2014
  Pitt Football‏@GoPittFootball 24m
  Coach Chryst welcoming @buffalobills coach Doug Marrone and his team to the indoor facility for their walk through pic.twitter.com/VhlT2JBRWz

:batitt Football

 

[CuseLegacy]

http://cuse.com/news/2014/8/13/GEN_0813142444.aspx#.U-uuEbl0y1s

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Syracuse's new indoor practice facility is literally off the ground. Steel beams began to go into place at the construction site on Wednesday, as the foundation is almost complete. Senior associate athletics director/facility operations Pete Sala provided an update on the project as local media were invited to come see the progress at the site. Sala says Dec. 1 is the target date for construction to be complete on the facility that will be a "game-changer" for Syracuse athletics, benefitting all Orange programs.

Major points from the construction update:

• Target date of Dec. 1 for construction to be completed
• Construction of steel beams will take approximately eight weeks
• Shell of the facility and interior work will commence in November
• FieldTurf has already been purchased and will be delivered in November
• Floor space will be 405 x 215 feet, exactly the same as the Carrier Dome
• Ceiling will be 45 feet high at eves and 65 feet high in the center
• Outside is designed to aesthetically match the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center
• "Plaza 44" will be located in front of the building, featuring three statues
• Front of facility will have team rooms to be used by the soccer stadium

 

[CuseLegacy]

 

[cpatrocks]

This just felt appropriate...on more than one level.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Great job, SU.

I think everyone on the Hill is swelling with pride.

I'll see myself out now...

 

[LeMoyneCuse]

Did the erection ceremony last more than 4 hours?

 

[AAM62]

Did the erection ceremony last more than 4 hours?

We have a winner

 

[thorpedo]

Phil D'Abbraccio‏@PhilDAbb 7m
Due to the rain, the first steel beam of the new football practice facility will not be erected this morning, SU Athletics announces.

Brent Axe‏@BrentAxeMedia 26m
No Indoor Practice Facility ceremony today for SU due to rain. Will be re-scheduled for a later date

Ha...you said erect....Ed.

 

[JJReddawg]

Now that it's erect, they better hurry up and lay some pipe.

 

[Crusty]

My...that's a big one.

 

[TDTOrange]

 

[MSOrange]

That video should lock the thread! Won't beat Ron!

 

[cusefan88]

• Front of facility will have team rooms to be used by the soccer stadium

A small but nice perk for SU Soccer. Before they had to change at Manley and walk to the stadium for the game. Now they're a bit closer. A program on the rise too.

 

[reedny]

Bonaventure is putting in a new synthetic surface playing field for soccer and rugby. They have a live camera with which one can watch real time construction. Question is, why can't Cuse do the same for the IPF? Yeah, I'm calling y'all out.

 

[CuseLegacy]

http://www.syracuse.com/poliquin/in...ty_sees_its_first_steel_column_beam_erec.html

"To get there, to get to that architectural wonder and to do so on time, some 60 workers — who, according to project superintendent Tim Kelley of the Hayner Hoyt Corporation, may be joined by as many as 30 others before the project is finished — are laboring 12-hour shifts six days a week.
"Now," Kelley said, "all we need is some good weather."

 

[CuseOnly]

That thread was awesome... I don't even remember which forum we were on back then for that one.

Penthouse forum?

 

[SUFaninNJ]

I'm glad they finally got cameras out there.

 

[shandeezy7]

Not the best quality, but I didn't have time to get out of my car. A lot went up on day 1 it looks like.

 

[OttoMets]

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Not the best quality, but I didn't have time to get out of my car. A lot went up on day 1 it looks like.

Better than nothing (the quality of the shot, that is).

Anyone who's in the area should stop by Manley today or tomorrow and get a look at this.

As of right now, 25 (out of a total of 28 or 30, I believe) verticals are in place and they're enormous in the context of the rest of the complex - way taller than the eaves (yes, cuse.com, that's how that word is spelled) of Manley and about the height of the practice field light towers. It's really a landscape-changing building.

Photography doesn't do it justice and they're moving fast, so it won't look this way for long.

 

[UnknownOrange]

 

[MartyCuse]

Awesome love the pics! Thanks guys

 

[Rocco]

I can visualize it!!!