Stadium of Canterbury
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@antipodean i think what i fearer would happen is happening, too much effort to try and get the perfect stadium, which has delayed things so much that the cost is far exceeding the money they received for the old one so more investment needed form council etc which makes it even more likely to become a white elephant
Probably could have had a 25-30k stadium without a roof several years ago
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So, take this with agrain of salt as it's third-hand information, but I had coffee with a chap recently who is involved in a side hustle with one of the top dog Aussies here to manage this project.
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Apparently every month the project is static - like now, and as it appears to have been for 3-4 months since closing off the roading in the area - it costs $1m. And this time next year if the same thing is happening, it'll be $2m per month.
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The project team has been pushing the CCC hard to get groundworks underway. Theory being, no matter what happens, the footprint isn't going to grow but costs are rising. I can vouch for that from my industry involvement: steel has gone up approx 50% this year and will go up another 20% or so by the end of Q1 next year. And there will be a fuck load of steel in this job. But the CCC continues to sit on it's hands.
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This chap has said the CCC is the slowest, most beuracratic and inefficient governmental body they've dealt with anywhere in the world. Surprise surprise!
So take it from all this that the budget will shrink or the CCC will need to kick over a few more stones to get back to the $485m required to build this thing. It's impossible not to see some further carnage arising around this be it an uproar over more monmey being required or an uproar over a further attempted shrinking of the project. The only other alternative is to quietly further down-spec the stadium.
This continues to be a catastrophic fuck up from the CCC which can only get worse.
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@kiwiwomble re your last comment, yes, absolutely. Had there not been this hopelessly mis-guided obsession with an indoor stadium, we could have whacked up an upgraded 40k seater Bankwest Stadium years ago and had the best stadium in NZ, a true international class venue and possibly even had change leftover.
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@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@kiwiwomble re your last comment, yes, absolutely. Had there not been this hopelessly mis-guided obsession with an indoor stadium, we could have whacked up an upgraded 40k seater Bankwest Stadium years ago and had the best stadium in NZ, a true international class venue and possibly even had change leftover.
The Crusaders should have spent more time pushing for day games and an uncovered stadium
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@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
This continues to be a catastrophic fuck up from the CCC which can only get worse.
Regrettably, this appears to be 100% true.
Honestly, could you have a worse outcome for the amount of money spent? It's insane; delays are expensive. In the meantime, Addington continues to be used.
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@nzzp said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
This continues to be a catastrophic fuck up from the CCC which can only get worse.
Regrettably, this appears to be 100% true.
Honestly, could you have a worse outcome for the amount of money spent? It's insane; delays are expensive. In the meantime, Addington continues to be used.
Luckily Addington is super over engineered, 20 year lifespan rings a bell even though when built they were looking at 5 years and hoping to have a stadium for the lions series
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@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@nzzp said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
This continues to be a catastrophic fuck up from the CCC which can only get worse.
Regrettably, this appears to be 100% true.
Honestly, could you have a worse outcome for the amount of money spent? It's insane; delays are expensive. In the meantime, Addington continues to be used.
Luckily Addington is super over engineered, 20 year lifespan rings a bell even though when built they were looking at 5 years and hoping to have a stadium for the lions series
In theory it was intended to be returned to Canterbury Rugby League as a usable stadium.
Not sure what it is in the water here, the DHB is useless as well.
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@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@kiwiwomble re your last comment, yes, absolutely. Had there not been this hopelessly mis-guided obsession with an indoor stadium, we could have whacked up an upgraded 40k seater Bankwest Stadium years ago and had the best stadium in NZ, a true international class venue and possibly even had change leftover.
The Crusaders should have spent more time pushing for day games and an uncovered stadium
Many people should have pushed for an open stadium. It'd be done by now.
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@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@kiwiwomble re your last comment, yes, absolutely. Had there not been this hopelessly mis-guided obsession with an indoor stadium, we could have whacked up an upgraded 40k seater Bankwest Stadium years ago and had the best stadium in NZ, a true international class venue and possibly even had change leftover.
The Crusaders should have spent more time pushing for day games and an uncovered stadium
Many people should have pushed for an open stadium. It'd be done by now.
I doubt it, even the metro facility isn't completed yet.
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@godder said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@kiwiwomble re your last comment, yes, absolutely. Had there not been this hopelessly mis-guided obsession with an indoor stadium, we could have whacked up an upgraded 40k seater Bankwest Stadium years ago and had the best stadium in NZ, a true international class venue and possibly even had change leftover.
The Crusaders should have spent more time pushing for day games and an uncovered stadium
Many people should have pushed for an open stadium. It'd be done by now.
I doubt it, even the metro facility isn't completed yet.
Good point, but the original intent was to have a stadium for the Lions tour four years ago, and building a modified version of an existing plan for an open stadium eg Bankwest is a lot more straightforward than trying to shoehorn in a roofed stadium.
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@godder said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@kiwiwomble re your last comment, yes, absolutely. Had there not been this hopelessly mis-guided obsession with an indoor stadium, we could have whacked up an upgraded 40k seater Bankwest Stadium years ago and had the best stadium in NZ, a true international class venue and possibly even had change leftover.
The Crusaders should have spent more time pushing for day games and an uncovered stadium
Many people should have pushed for an open stadium. It'd be done by now.
I doubt it, even the metro facility isn't completed yet.
conversely the "temp" stadium went up in 100 days, metro sports has many more stakeholders and even its definition/purpose was very vague for a long time, i think an off the shelf bowl rectangular stadium like we see 100's of in europe or copy and paste forsyth barr for a smaller covered stadium and it could have been ready for 2017
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@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@godder said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@kiwiwomble re your last comment, yes, absolutely. Had there not been this hopelessly mis-guided obsession with an indoor stadium, we could have whacked up an upgraded 40k seater Bankwest Stadium years ago and had the best stadium in NZ, a true international class venue and possibly even had change leftover.
The Crusaders should have spent more time pushing for day games and an uncovered stadium
Many people should have pushed for an open stadium. It'd be done by now.
I doubt it, even the metro facility isn't completed yet.
conversely the "temp" stadium went up in 100 days, metro sports has many more stakeholders and even its definition/purpose was very vague for a long time, i think an off the shelf bowl rectangular stadium like we see 100's of in europe or cut and paste forsyth barr for a smaller covered stadium and it could have been ready for 2017
Totally agree - my cynical observation is that requires decisionmaking, and city council seems to be beset by analysis paralysis.
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@godder yes, i think think if they had just decided to build what they could afford, either smaller and covered or larger and uncovered, and live with some complaints they would have already had a few years enjoying a new stadium and we'd only have the odd comment down the pub "they should have done this or that"
God forbid they show real forward thinking and build an uncovered stadium with the capacity to have one added down the track
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@kiwiwomble in fairness, I don't think you save much by trying to future proof structures like that. You'll spend most of the cost inn the supports and foundations... And then finish without a roof.
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@nzzp It would cost more than not future proofing for sure but would have to be cheaper than the full thing...just purely the cost of the roof structure itself plus the labour for building it, for Forsyth barr the roof is almost a free standing structure, the huge columns in the corners and the beam across the front of the main stand could all be removed to ground level i believe
I thin it becomes more of an issue is all that structure needs to be hidden in the stand structure itself, if you accept it can be seen then it becomes more simple
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FBS still has tremendous novelty value and of course it has its benefits, but isn't a good example of a roofed stadium. It's essentially three separate stands with a plastic canopy.
The concept art for the Christchurch MUA shows a much more complete and aesthetically pleasing design, but it'll probably end up being a facsimile of FBS in order to end up with anything serviceable for the pool of cash still available.
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@shark Thanks kind of what im saying, of course you can have a design the better incorporates the structural aspects....but thats what you pay for, even when we rebuild our place after the earthquake we wanted to put these big bi fold doors in and the architect explained we could either have floor to ceiling but broken with columns...or full width but with a 400mm wooden lintel...or pay a small fortune for a steel beam
you need to chose two out of beautiful (structure all hidden etc), complicated (roof) or cost...cant have them all
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@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@shark Thanks kind of what im saying, of course you can have a design the better incorporates the structural aspects....but thats what you pay for, even when we rebuild our place after the earthquake we wanted to put these big bi fold doors in and the architect explained we could either have floor to ceiling but broken with columns...or full width but with a 400mm wooden lintel...or pay a small fortune for a steel beam
you need to chose two out of beautiful, complicated or cost...cant have the all
This is a rule we live by at work.
Choose two of cheap / fast / good.
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@shark said in Stadium of Canterbury:
FBS still has tremendous novelty value and of course it has its benefits, but isn't a good example of a roofed stadium. It's essentially three separate stands with a plastic canopy.
The concept art for the Christchurch MUA shows a much more complete and aesthetically pleasing design, but it'll probably end up being a facsimile of FBS in order to end up with anything serviceable for the pool of cash still available.
What was wrong with a facsimile of FBS anyway? I'm sure that some lessons/improvements would have come with the package and there is scope to increase capacity at build time anyway.
Everyone wants to reinvent all the time and incur costs instead of following an existing model.With the idea of adding a roof later, it has to be well designed with that in mind instead of a 'we will solve that if required' approach. See the Caketin as an example.It was always touted that when technology was available and cheaper a roof would be an option. The cheaper part never comes along with the better.
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@crucial yes, definitely, not speculative, actually design the roof with current technology, do what parts need to be done now, hopefully a minimal amount like just foundations and then if something new/cheaper/fancier comes around its can be a plus
I always thought the stands at either ed of FSB could easily have been bigger to raise the capacity for chch
