I meant to post the pics I took yesterday. I got a few other angles I might put up later. It's really nice to see all things athletic moving forward these days though. Even if it's just big holes and piles of dirt at this point.
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New Basketball/Volleyball Facility
- Thread starter Scotch
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Here are some pics I took yesterday. Just a couple of additional angles to build on snowy's.
Idot Buff
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We had better be competitive in basketball and volleyball....this is the Pac-10, Baby!!!!!!!
Idot Buff
Guest
Not to be a dick...but, are you kidding me? At this rate, we will have a new facility in ten years. Throw a buttload more equipment and headcount at this project, for God's sake...
They just got started in earnest. They had to wait till finals and high school graduations were over. Slow down, they have a schedule.
Do we know what that schedule is? When is this thing supposed to be completed? Anybody know?
April 2010, they will likely do most of the heavy lifting this summer before school starts, then they will finish up the rest during the winter. They will need to finish a lot of it during the summer because once school starts it is much harder to to do work, and they will not be able to do too much when Basketball season starts. We should see most of the structure up before the season starts
April 2010 was two months ago. Are you sure that's not when they said they're starting?
Sorry, I ment to say April 2011
http://www.colorado.edu/facilitiesmanagement/construction/profiles/practice.html
sparkybuffs
New Member
So i was walking by the CECC today and noticed that one of the doors was open. I poked my head in and saw construction starting to hang something from the ceiling of the building. Does anybody know if thats where they're planning to put the new scoreboards?
that would be nice
Indeed they are. There's a mockup of what they expect them to look like in the construction bid forms. From the CU facilities page:
It's a year later than Mike Bohn was hoping for but it's finally gonna happen
I know that Bohn really wants one and would totally put one in if he could. The issue is that the roof might not be able to support the weight of a massive videoboard hanging off of it. If it could, he would put one in. At least, that's what he told us in KC for the past 2 years.
I do believe him on that, but I don't believe there is nothing you can do to strengthen the structure for it. I'm sure it was looked into, I just think if you really want something, you get **** done.
I would be INCREDABLY suprised if there was anything to do to strengthen the structure. The CEC is a glorified dome, that roof likly can barely hold up its own weight, and to strengthen it would be pretty close to impossible without tearing down the roof and rebuilding it. Next time you are in there look at the strucure, there are no true structural beams in the entire roof, I would imagine they probably have limits to how many people can be on those walkways, and I am sure there is some facilities guy worried at every large snow.
so run a beam from one end to the other and hang the video scoreboard from that. It doesn't have to be hanging from the ceiling.