Stadium Expansion

knappic, signed up just to say thanks for posting the pics. I generally post on another board under a different name. Just lurk over here to view the updates you post. Maddening that there isn't a webcam for this project. Especially when you see cams like this, for Husky Stadium that are just awesome.

 
They're just going to cover it up. It will be visible from inside the new building, but not from the street.

According to the plans they've posted you should be able to see the half-dome via an alcove, but the inscription will be buried, as will the seals. Here's some pics of the seals I took back in 2008:

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I also found a pic of the old east entrance from 2008:

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That gnarly marled sidewalk won't be missed, but the trees were nice. Too bad about them. I picked up a branch from the pine tree on the north side of this space when they knocked it down.

 
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It is going to look slow because 99% of the project right now is getting the basic structure in place, which requires few men but a lot of crane work and steel work. Once the understructure gets built, things should start progressing nicely. Winter weather isn't optimal for construction, and the process will likely speed up during the spring and summer. Lets give the Sampson guys some credit, Im sure they're working their asses off. From what I understand they aim to get the basic structure finished by next season, then start on the insides of the buiding over next season and the next offseason.

 
I had to edit that last line, but you quoted me before I changed it. There was a tall pine on the far north side - that's the branch I have.

I thought about sawing it into little discs and giving them away to people. But who would want that? Sometimes my "that's a good idea!" ideas aren't such good ideas the next day. :)

 
knapplc said:
They're just going to cover it up. It will be visible from inside the new building, but not from the street.

According to the plans they've posted you should be able to see the half-dome via an alcove, but the inscription will be buried, as will the seals.
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That's a little disappointing.

 
knapplc said:
GSG5545 said:
knapp, set up a webcam damnit! :lol:
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This is all tschu. I asked him to stand next to the site with a camera, taking pics every 30 seconds an uploading them to a feed, but would he? No.

He said he would have done it for Lambeau, though.

Boo! Tsss!
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I can give daily updates from my job in Manter Hall tho!

Today a beam was raised, one grid unit up, into the middle part of the 4th section from the north. Also some dump trucks drove around and I heard a guy yelling. How's that?

 
Coincidentally, we saw six of those blades being transported west on I-80 Saturday while driving up to Omaha. Funny that these are going east.

I believe the far-right car is the last in that train. It was a huge train. I took pics from the Haymarket parking lot and it was going by, slowly, at the time. I then drove over to 1st & O street, parked, walked 200 yards up the walking path on the O street viaduct, and took that panorama, and the train was going by the whole time.

EDIT - to my knowledge, those are not being put up in or near Lincoln. There are several large wind farms along I-80 through Iowa, so I'm guessing they're going there.

EDIT II - we have two wind turbines in Lincoln, more for show than anything else I believe. They're up north of the Interstate on 70th street. You can drive to within half a block of them, and when they're in use the blade tips sound like jets whooshing by.

 
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tschu said:
knapplc said:
GSG5545 said:
knapp, set up a webcam damnit! :lol:
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This is all tschu. I asked him to stand next to the site with a camera, taking pics every 30 seconds an uploading them to a feed, but would he? No.

He said he would have done it for Lambeau, though.

Boo! Tsss!
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I can give daily updates from my job in Manter Hall tho!

Today a beam was raised, one grid unit up, into the middle part of the 4th section from the north. Also some dump trucks drove around and I heard a guy yelling. How's that?
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Pics or it didn't happen. :lol:

 
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