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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3393090, member: 27"] This is an interesting point. Are you assuming this or does this come from inside info? If you compare the drawing of the new roof on the Geiger site, which I think is the best thing we have to work with to date, you can see that it appears they are attempting to stage the cable structure the new roof will have on the floor of the dome. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.geigerengineers.com/project/1533130889757/carrier-dome-new-roof[/URL] [ATTACH type="full"]181409[/ATTACH] There are a couple of possible problems with this though. On the drawing, it looks like the cables that will be used over most of roof above the dome floor are not going to be flat, 'normal' cables, but ones that are fixed in a series of arcs. I don't see normal cables below them. It looks like the arcs are what they are mostly going to use above the dome floor. I have already heard from a reliable source that the drawing is not correct, so maybe this was changed, but that seems unlikely to me. Also, if you look at the Geiger drawing carefully...it appears there are two cables, that appear to be completely arc based, that run at 45 degree angles to all the rest of the cables. All the cables are at a diagonal except these two, which I think run north-south and east-west. The drawing appears to have been done by hand and not done very well but if you believe the drawing, there is more to do. I think they at minimum need to add a north-south and an east-west cable. It will be interesting to see how the arc effect is achieved. Maybe they will use normal cables and have a bunch of steel arc sleeves that they will thread through them to get the needed shape? I can't imagine they are precasting lengths of arc steel 90 feet long and transporting them from Montreal, or Italy or who knows where. They are probably modular and bolt together, no? Regardless, based on these pictures, I think that approach Pfeifer used at Olympic Stadium in Montreal to raise all the main cables at the same time is looking very likely to be used here too. Even though the structure of the cable network being raised is completely different. [USER=5058]NJCuse97[/USER], insiders, anyone else have thoughts on this? [/QUOTE]

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