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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3440891, member: 27"] I had today off. Took the opportunity to drive by and check things out this afternoon. Stopped by Kennedy Square. All the crane pieces were gone, which if you hav been looking at the live cam from Lawrinson, is no surprise (that crane is almost complete now). They did have a bunch of stacks of some fairly long thin strips of grey metal stored there. I saw some of that at the Thompson Road lots too. Not sure what it is. Maybe they go over the roof cables to protect from from wear and tear over time? Hard to believe they will be left in plain sight. Quite unsightly. Then I drove over to the campus. You can’t drive down Forestry (something about building a cable; go figure). I gawked at the crown truss and cables from Irving for a bit, then drove around to the parking lot near Hendricks Field to see if there was anything interesting sitting there. There was. When I first saw these, I thought they were spirals. What the heck? Do they have extras? As I looked closer, it was clear they were arcs for the PTFE roof. They are really big; almost spiral size. I am very happy to see that they painted over that skanky rusty look they had in an video where they were being worked on in Texas. Looks like they used the same heavy duty lustrous white paint used on the spirals and girders. [ATTACH=full]183684[/ATTACH] There was also a full size trailer with a big Pfeiffer sign on it where I suspect they are storing rolls of PTFE fabric. Lastly, there were lot of big wooden crates that look like they might be the same size as the standard white opaque tiles Pfeiffer seems to use for the outer wall of many of their stadium roofs. I am hearing the plan is to get the cable net fully installed by July 20. At that point, the plan is to start installing the new roof. It is encouraging to see a lot of the materials that will be needed to install the roof coming into place. My guess is things will go like this: Connect a second support cable to each roof cable so the ends of the roof cable are free and can be securely connected to the tension ring. This support cable will run from the crown truss to the point on each roof cable where the PTFE roof starts. Looks like there will be a couple of additional short connections from that to points where the hard roof support cables meet the roof cables. This frees the ends of the roof cables so they can be securely connected to the tension ring. Then they can finally pull the support cable up to get the cable net into its final position. Each roof cable will gently rise until it gets to the point where the PTFE roof starts. At that point, the roof cables will run horizontally to the opposite side of the building, where another supporting cable holds it in place and it slopes gently from there to the tension ring. This will give the cable net the shape of an inverted bowl, But those vertical steel supports will now be pointing straight up, held in place by their alignment cables, so the PTFE section of the roof will look kind of like an angry porcupine. Except with giant white steel quills. At this point, I think the cable is ready to support the load of the new roof. My guess is that they will work from the outside in, and focus on the hard shell part of the roof first. Once that has been completed (I think the exterior surface is going to be those Pfeiffer opaque tiles), all that is left is the PTFE part of the roof. But that will be no easy task. Those steel arcs are huge, very heavy and each one needs to be placed and secured in a very precise way, over 100 feet in the air. The two red and the two white cranes are going to be on their game. The operators will have to rely on cameras and maybe verbal instructions from the crew up top to make this happen. Once the arcs are in place, they can finally install the PFTE fabric and for the first time since early March, the dome will have a functional roof again. At that point, they can start removing all the plastic protecting the ribbon scoreboards, the private boxes, the locker rooms, etc. The focus of the work turns inside, where the crew needs to install new lighting, a new sound system, 2 new end zone scoreboards, the new center hung scoreboard, and hopefully WIFI. The aluminum benches also need to be put back into place. A new field turf field needs to be installed, marked and painted. I would imagine the whole place is coated in dust and grime and needs a good cleaning. I think they are going to convert all concession stands to become grab and go stands. The bathrooms are being renovated for COVID to be touch less and new bathrooms are being installed. And I am sure there is a lot of stuff I am not aware of. There is an enormous amount of work still to be done. August and the first part of September are going to be crazy times for this project. Let’s hope this crew can find a way to get it done. And hope that there are games to be played there once it is complete! [ATTACH type="full" alt="8D694D04-CAF1-4F29-8B75-C6F5AE1228DB.jpeg"]183682[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="122123A5-09B5-47A0-B6ED-1DDE7CCAD11B.jpeg"]183683[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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