I have a hard time seeing them moving all home games next year or any year to other sites, next year we only have 6 games and 3 of them will be the first 3 weeks of the season most likely(louisville is very likely to be the game on wk 2 based on teams with openings and one of said teams can only play 1 team since they need to be home that day). Then you can put 2 home games in october and have a late bye week or finish with 3 of 4 on the road in November with 1 home game if they really want to start the renovation that soon. They can do most of the construction after bball/lacrosse are finished and do it in stages
I think phased construction is not out of the question in this particular case especially if dome revenue can be maintained without rent/travel costs for a different facility. Based on the information provided so far there seem to be some pretty clear phases that only have moderate interaction.
I also think it is much more likely that the lacrosse team, while #1 in national lacrosse attendance at 4,100 per game, would be asked to move to another stadium for their season effectively starting the construction schedule March 1. (Soccer stadium w/ expanded temp Seating @ Manley, NBT bank stadium?)
For Phasing in this case you can basically work from the outside in, creating the shell that the new roof, concourses and seating arrangement would be supported on. Then work towards the center possibly doing half the concourses and seats ahead of the other half, and updating the field last because the system works now as is and also seems like the most extravagant expense, (read: most likely to get cut from the budget.)
In Phasing order:
1-Exterior buildings & Exterior New supports for roof structure - Work can happen year round without interrupting game play, may interrupt gate access at Gate A & D (Temp fire exit during events)
2-New Roof Construction -Preferably spring/summer work
- There was some conversation of building the new dome roof directly over the existing roof, this is not out of the question but that structure would be very high and the possibility of existing roof tears would be a concern to be addressed.
3-Concourse & Seating Renovation -mostly summer work (concourses and seats on non basketball side could start in November with some fire exits maintained/limiting capacity to ~32,000 for BBall)
-since exterior work would be ahead of this work likely some use could be made of expanded concourses in perimeter buildings during bball season helping with phasing in other half of the dome
- with some pre-construction/temp bleacher work it could be possible to flip basketball to the other side of the field for the Pre-ACC part of the season depending on speed of renovation expectations.
4-Field renovation - spring summer work - also could start 50% during basketball, no back court vendors for 1 season (unlikely).
I'm opposed to moving Football games anywhere, but I'd think 2016 Football could play @Wake or BYE week 2 (Also open date for Wake) to stretch the construction schedule. Possibly add temporary bleachers to NBT bank stadium outfield/sidelines upping capacity to ~20k and play Colgate there extending the back end of the schedule two weeks. You could try to play USF there buying almost a month but I'm guessing it would be a tight squeeze. Could also play these two games @ Cornell (Cap: 25,597). 2017, only home game listed so far in September is CMU also a smaller capacity option.
We play away at Pitt and BC, in 2016 so I would expect as many home games as possible to be clustered into October.
