New Everton Stadium

[BullensRoad]

Didn't know that. Always assumed it was the Arena vent.

Might be wrong but it’s definitely a funnel for something either road or tube.

Also the 12 yellow things holding it up are to represent the 12 months of the year if you’re a geek like me.

 

[arch stanton]

I'm intrigued. Why were you in there yesterday?

with work, my company have responsibility for lots of TfL contracts and Blackwalll tunnel being one of them, I was doing a senior leaders visit to meet some of the lads who maintain them so I was shown around the vent shafts turbines and control system offices

 

[Ruairi77]

With all the vent talk recently I took a look at the Allianz Arena & it also has uneven vents in its cladding. There's are higher up though so better hidden from ground level. The O2 Arena has a mahoosive vent too. Been a blot on many great designs way before our build but nobody really cares & are easily looked past.
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yea, It's definitely nit picking and probably because most of the time I'm seeing it from drone shots. Might have been an idea to put them higer like the Allianz arena. The O2 kinda has a deathstar thing going on.

 

[Toffeeslam]

Can i make a suggestion? Maybe you could put it inside the cat litter box. Then you dont even have to look at it.

That will traumatise the cat ffs

Don’t any of you have any humanity it’s a poor defenceless animal.

Chuck that in a canal somewhere

Note: not the cat !!

 

[Scarecrow]

I live adjacent to the canal, and cat drowning did cross my mind until I got the sign.

No problems since, so that shower are good for one, minor thing.

 

[Haydn]

Call me naive, but I dont think we would do that.

Given our perilous financial position, I don’t think we were in a position not to do it.

I would be amazed if there haven’t been design changes or compromises adopted, to cut costs and protect the available budget.

Cost overruns due to design clashes, changes and discovery often happen on projects. When the client hits financial difficulty, cost control and hopefully reduction, become the absolute priority.

Value engineering is the fancy name for it. It can work ok if the design team still make the decisions and advise the cost consultants, game over if the cost consultants have been given control with a brief to cut costs.

It will be blue emulsion in the boardroom, rather than historic Everton inspired, embossed satin wall-covering.

I really do hope you’re right, it would certainly make Moshiri the bravest / craziest (delete to suit) accountant ever.

 

[Goat]

Given our perilous financial position, I don’t think we were in a position not to do it.

I would be amazed if there haven’t been design changes or compromises adopted, to cut costs and protect the available budget.

Cost overruns due to design clashes, changes and discovery often happen on projects. When the client hits financial difficulty, cost control and hopefully reduction, become the absolute priority.

Value engineering is the fancy name for it. It can work ok if the design team still make the decisions and advise the cost consultants, game over if the cost consultants have been given control with a brief to cut costs.

It will be blue emulsion in the boardroom, rather than historic Everton inspired, embossed satin wall-covering.

I really do hope you’re right, it would certainly make Moshiri the bravest / craziest (delete to suit) accountant ever.

Ah, I re-read your post and you are right, for sure some minor things and largely comestic things will potentially be scaled back in the short term.

 

[Jacko93]

Ah, I re-read your post and you are right, for sure some minor things and largely comestic things will potentially be scaled back in the short term.

The whole role of Meis continued involvement was to ensure that the VE work (which happens on every single job) didn't detract from the architectural 'story'

 

[mahermi1]

The whole role of Meis continued involvement was to ensure that the VE work (which happens on every single job) didn't detract from the architectural 'story'

But what about inside the ground, that will have little to do with Meis surely ?

 

[Gardocki]

But what about inside the ground, that will have little to do with Meis surely ?

He didn’t just design the outside.

 

[arch stanton]

He didn’t just design the outside.

every day's a school day lol

 

[phil_t98]

went this afternoon, more solar panels being fitted and more being carried and stacked up

 

[The binman chronicles]

 

[Goat]

Family confirm death of Des O’Rourke

Deputy chair and co-founder of Laing O'Rourke dies aged 75

www.constructionenquirer.com

 

[GoldenToffee]

Family confirm death of Des O’Rourke

Deputy chair and co-founder of Laing O'Rourke dies aged 75

www.constructionenquirer.com

It's all going wrong for Everton this week.