sounds like me after the joey holts

It had beter be , We've booked our 2011 xmas do there



more importantly so has the Trafford Centre ..

Will be having a few of them in the morning star tonight Pev!





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Sorry now back the stadium topic.

just drove past today and it looks like its coming on reaily well considering the weather, it looked to be they are ready to pour the concreate in and create the base, not going to happen until it walms up a bit as ive been told concrete wont set unless its over 5 degrease and you need a good week so its solid or it just cracks??.

So better be safe than sorry and rush it i say, surpose they'll just dig the rest of it up for the roads n stuff till it walms up in the new year?.

Mixing the concrete with hot water is an option for cold weather pouring.

Its not exactly 'thrilling' reading:
[urlhttp://www.na.graceconstruction.com/custom/concrete/downloads/TB_0106.pdf[/url

Quote ="lukicj"Mixing the concrete with hot water is an option for cold weather pouring. Its not exactly 'thrilling' reading: [urlhttp://www.na.graceconstruction.com/custom/concrete/downloads/TB_0106.pdf[/url'" Yes you can theoretically do that but i don't think Buckingham's are going to hire 100's of people with burco boilers ready to mix cement do you? the stadium base will be laid by industrial concrete mixing lorries and silo's all with cold water, although was going through some of my suppliers today and found these guys? wonder if Buckingham's could use a product to the same spec as this? www.gamcoform.com/Chemicals/DR%2 ... s/HD50.pdf

Quote ="lukicj"Mixing the concrete with hot water is an option for cold weather pouring. Its not exactly 'thrilling' reading: [urlhttp://www.na.graceconstruction.com/custom/concrete/downloads/TB_0106.pdf[/url'" Yes you can theoretically do that but i don't think Buckingham's are going to hire 100's of people with burco boilers ready to mix cement do you? the stadium base will be laid by industrial concrete mixing lorries and silo's all with cold water, although was going through some of my suppliers today and found these guys? wonder if Buckingham's could use a product to the same spec as this? www.gamcoform.com/Chemicals/DR%2 ... s/HD50.pdf

Pouring concrete ? I know it depends on the land to some degree but surely a stadium would require land Piling before any sort of concrete was simply poured ?

Salford City Council (building inspector) insisted after planning permission was granted my extention be piled before building could take place, I had to have eleven piles installed at an additional 25% add on to the original price of my build.

can you please stop using the word 'piles' ?



they're very painful.................

Im sure the piling has already been done? I went past a few week ago and saw numurous concrete squares plotted about where the stadium will be situated.

Those concrete squares will be going a fare few foot under the ground and will act as giant stilts to make sure the stadium doesn't sink or collapse.

I love the fact that almost everyone on this thread has become an expert in stadia construction over the last couple of months

I did work on the LSV i'll have you know.


Its not just stadium's which adopt this method but any big structures like the Beetham tower in manchester or the M.E.N arena. Or the most impressive of all hong kong airport which involved extending the coastline and abit dfferently but same idea had giant steel pillers bolted to the sea bed which included a man made island constructed on top of it, Which was the actual base for the new airport.

Engineering has come so far over the last hundred years.

I think RedJohn worked on Offa's dyke




or it might have been Stonehenge

These pen pushers ah, don't have a jar of glue.

You sure ? when my estate was built there was a massive rig on site to install the piles, (thats for houses) now all I've seen is the land being leveled. You'd hear and see piling on a site like that from quite a long way off.

It was Stonehenge. And all the way through we had this nutter called Starbugge running up every day telling us it was all a con to trick UNESCO (whatever that was) into making it a World Heritage Site, and how it was never going to get built.

That will have fallen down by the time you get your place built , Anybody want a bet on it being usable before May 2012 ?

I'll have you a bet right here right now you dirty little bug!

Boing!!!! As if by magic, Starbug appeared.

There should be a webcam on site so everyone can see the progress without risking crashing while going over the Barton Bridge



A bit like the ones they have for the Olympic site.

There is one , but because nothing was changing they thought it was broke and they turned it off

There is one already on or near site, its called a "Starbug"

Has the building started yet? I'm getting bored with my signature

I've not been near for months , that's why I keep asking how its going ?