Bit harsh? It's only a decorative part of the stadium...
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Bit harsh? It's only a decorative part of the stadium...
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Spursidol
said above we are installing the east side veil ahead of schedule and the parts are being manufactured early to let us do that then how is that poor??Almost all the framework is in and the veil is coming on at a pace.
Chin up, its happening!!
Just fucked off with the whole thing. Should have extended the original when we had the chance. Nostalgia....If as
Almost all the framework is in and the veil is coming on at a pace.
Chin up, its happening!!
It was ALWAYS scheduled to be done in the summer break as its purely cosmetic.
So its been brought forward and if we play at NWHL in March it will be finished.
'pretty poor' ? Plonker
Levy apologist. Rodney.
No I just took the time to read and understand the stadium planning application so I understand what is being delivered when.....and it didn't take long to realise that being constrained by time we would delay finishing cosmetic bits if necessary.
So when I post its from some knowledge.
Fair play mate.
Hearing from a mate who uses Spurs Od that somebody called 'El Pezza' is claiming we won't be in the stadium till October!?
ochbye:
ochbye:Hearing from a mate who uses Spurs Od that somebody called 'El Pezza' is claiming we won't be in the stadium till October!?
2020?
Seriously though, this is reminding me of what is happening with Berlin's new airport
Whatever happened to Berlin’s deserted ‘ghost’ airport?
Dozens of gates are ready for aeroplanes to pull in. Information screens display simulated real-time flight information. Gleaming terminals stand waiting for passengers to walk through them.
Berlin’s Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport (BER) looks exactly like every other major modern airport in Europe, except for one big problem: more than seven years after it was originally supposed to open, it still stands empty. There are no passengers using it.
The first major sign something was wrong came in summer 2010, when the corporation running construction, the state- and federally-controlled Flughafen Berlin-Brandenburg, pushed the opening from October 2011 to June 2012. In 2012, it really did look like the airport would open: the city planned a ceremony which would have been attended by Chancellor Angela Merkel. But less than a month beforehand, inspectors found significant problems with the fire safety system and pushed the opening back again to 2013
Few people disagreeing with above but you have made your point. No further comment.
Beyond caring at this point. It will happen when it happens.
Can I just say, appreciate there maybe some superficial similarities, but Berlin airport is entirely different and a totally unfair comparison.
Berlin is widely considered to be the worst major project in recent history, having failed on virtually every metric and for pretty much every stakeholder involved.
The progress at Spurs stadium has been rapid, as anyone in the construction and engineering game will tell you. When I went to visit the site last summer the PM team were already talking February even through the club was still talking about October publicly. There are all sorts of reasons for not being open and honest on big public projects, it rarely does you any favours.
The safety system issue is a real one and has added a bit of time, its true. Otherwise however, to develop a building of that complexity in a constrained site at such speed has been pretty impressive. Not perfect, but far from being a disaster,and a million times better than Berlin.
Hmmmm so that original construction plans say to be installed May-August 2019 and you're disappointed it's not done in January 2019 ... you're a hard man to please ... but I take your point, it's all a bit frustrating ....
I am a hard bastard ha ha - i already admitted it was through frustration. There's a plastic C word fan in a pub i use and without fail he will mention the stadium and the fact it's not done yet. I just want tthe fucking thing done! and it IS late.
Money-wise, something tells me that critical safety systems are the thing to specialise on in the forthcoming years. 