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Official Construction Update Thread
- Thread starter Darth Snow
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The new cam won't be much use for a while, but if you watch the fly through, and assuming they are on schedule, the NE Complex superstructure should be going up in the next couple of weeks.Both cams are now up and running live.
New one looks like it's from the new road and pointing to the IPF area.
I'm most excited about in ipf, all of it is cool, needed that for awhile. Can't believe this stuff is getting done finally.
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Kuta is a schnauzer dog with a bone.
Didn't Ringo and Howell already cover this for the Camera? Not sure why the paper is allowing one of its journalists to step over the work and job of its other journalists.
Kuta is a schnauzer dog with a bone.
Didn't Ringo and Howell already cover this for the Camera? Not sure why the paper is allowing one of its journalists to step over the work and job of its other journalists.
The two reason ringo gave are intersting.
The soil conditions thing happens. I understand that. However the sudden increase in construction premium sounds weird to me. That should have all been negotiated and agreed upon prior to the project starting.
She may have written the original full article, because I feel like I read it on Saturday, then it kept showing up on facebook and twitter. They posted it to buffzone, then to the regular bdc, and she keeps retweeting it.
Ya she did write it. At least in the article she does mention that it will not cost students/tax payers any money.
I blame Republicans for not easing up on immigration.
Tower crane going up. About to be lots and lots of heavy lifting
Like I said, I wonder if they have one big construction contract or if they are kind of doing it programmatically. I'd bet they don't have all the construction work under contract yet and that is why labor costs will have an impact. They are doing it under some sort of fast track process.
Well, she's not reporting anything that hasn't been reported elsewhere. It was on the 2nd page of the Denver Post yesterday. Of course, I didn't see who wrote that article. Maybe it was her since the Post uses Ringo's stuff for the Buffs.
I do get the feeling that she is tossing chum into the water hoping the sharks begin to circle so that she can go into full attack mode though. I think us Buff fans are paranoid from past experience.
Pretty sure he does. I can't imagine the media here is any more abusive than it was in Arlington with a team that went to back to back world series and could not win.
He is getting **** done here, and showing what is possible with fundraising here with the right guy in charge. Glad to have RG.
No, DBT, she clearly has an agenda.
Worse than Henderson. Henderson would actually mix in a positive piece to give the appearance of balance. I have yet to Kuta write a piece or even retweet something that didn't push her negative agenda toward the facilities project or the larger agenda she has in opposition to big time college athletics.
New video construction update from Rick George: http://www.cubuffs.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?id=3346238
Said we'll start seeing the seats going in for the NE corner in the next week or two.
Said we'll start seeing the seats going in for the NE corner in the next week or two.
Crane is complete and moving. It's huge.
MrFrumpylane
Well-Known Member
TWSS?
Construction labor is very hard to come by these days. I'd imagine that if labor cost is truly the culprit here (and I'm not completely convinced it is), then the most likely reason is because the supply of qualified labor is pretty thin these days. From 2008-2012, you couldn't find work anywhere in construction. That weeded a lot of people out of the business.
Red: Concrete has been poured. This section should be just about done, and the forms should be coming off tomorrow or the day after (IDK what curing time is for this concrete)
Blue: Rebar web is down for the bottom edge of the seats, I would expect wood forms, and additional rebar for the stair step portion to be placed very soon
Green: Bearing wall being poured right now. According to the early plans I saw back in November, this area looks to be the loading dock for the equipment trucks.
Yellow: Scaffolding going up for what I can only assume will be a new floor slab.
You can also see the massive tower crane that is now up and operational behind the complex.
The most talented people managed to stay in - to get more productivity from them, you have to pay overtime.
The ones with transferable skills found good employment in other industries - to lure them back, you have to pay higher wages.
The ones without transferable skills found marginal or no employment - these fall into a further three categories:
-The ones who are highly competent at construction but nutin' else - they've already been hired back, more productivity = OT
-The ones who were somewhat competent - this is who they are trying to hire back now. There will be training costs associated with getting them back "up to speed." Training costs = more labor expense
-The ones who used to be employed just because you need bodies - they're still high on Meth in some trailer in Nebraska; it almost never pays to hire them...
Any way you cut it, construction labor costs are going to be high for the next few years...
I wonder if anyone on that construction crew is an AB member and checks this thread when they get home. I would hate getting such diverse, timely feedback on my work, although the overall tone of the posts would make me feel pretty good.
They will be forming the vertical and horizontal parts of the section.
FlatironsBuff
Well-Known Member
They have six weeks. The paint may be sticky but I bet much is done on the corner seats. Endzone definitely should be done.
Make it really, really thick, haha. A really low slump.
37 calender days. Are they working weekends and the holiday? If not, only 26 days.
