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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3460109, member: 27"] Morning update: They have completed the 5th column on the western build and have started on column 6. 4 left to go. They have also started on column 6 on the eastern build (you can see this from the Link camera. Based on what I can see, the northern build is still finishing up column 5 and is quite far behind. The southern build is the hardest to see. Pretty sure they have the first 5 columns done. Do not know if column 6 has been started. Here is a screen capture to illustrate what I am discussing: [ATTACH type="full"]185100[/ATTACH] I think at some point in the near future, probably after column 7 has been completed, that the cranes will switch the builds they are working on. Each column that is built puts the steel being installed further from the initial crane doing the install and closer to the crane to the right of the build. Maybe not. They might be long enough to handle the whole build but it has to be easier to do this when the location you are loading the steel is relatively close by. Finishing section 5 gets them to about 55% complete on the hard shell. That is about there they are this morning. The installation of the arcs for the PTFE section of the roof is going really well. I won't try to count the number put in place to date but there are a lot of them. Pretty confident they are more than halfway done and probably more like 65 or 70% done. At this point, it looks like they will be done with the arcs before the hard shell build is finished. If work continues at the same pace, it looks like they will be finished around the middle of next week. That assumes they work this weekend. If not, probably sometime around the end of next week. I was originally thinking that after that, they will get the exterior of the hard shell roof in place, working from the perimeter of the roof inwards, and do the PTFE after that. But based on what they are doing to get the steel up, I am thinking now that the cranes outside the dome will put the exterior surface of the hard shell up and the cranes inside the dome will put the PTFE up. Once the exterior surface of the hard shell is up, I would think the cranes outside the dome are done and will be sent to their next build. The ones inside will handle installing insulation, the interior surface of the hard shell, the new lighting and sound systems, some wifi, and the scoreboards. Once the roof is off, there are lots of other things to do...removing the plastic protecting the private boxes and ribbon scoreboards, putting the benches back in place, installing the new field, etc. I have seen a lot of what appears to be dry wall being brought into Gate B. I assume this is for the new bathrooms or concession areas. August is going to be a really intense period for the project. I believe SU asked the ACC to not schedule home games for the first two weeks of the season. Hopefully they will honor this request. After what happened with the new schedule, I am not sure they care about Syracuse at all. [/QUOTE]

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