ROSM
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I've sometimes had a beer outside the ground previously. Usually when meeting people who are sitting elsewhere. Never been to Dicks on a matchday as have kids with me. I may use this but doubt I will be a regular
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[Albion] New proposed fan zone
- Thread starter torchieboy
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Bloomin' expensive waiting room for the post-match trains. Especially for evening games where it won't make a blind bit of difference because people will still just want to get home this side of midnight
Pliny the Gull
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- Mar 4, 2024
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Agree. Luv to see what RDZ would have done with him.
Milano
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Has anyone been past lately? Any new pics? I have zero reason to go to or past Falmer in June or July!
Yes I went past last week and it still looks like a lot of groundwork going on.
Insel affe
HellBilly
Cool, should be ready the same time as Palaces new stand then.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Was up at the Amex this morning so took a snap of the Fanzone site. Lot of activity going on.
Also something going on by the North West corner. Monorail station?
Also something going on by the North West corner. Monorail station?
Gazwag
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Not exactly a lot has happened in the last month by the looks of it, although I see to remember there are some cable or something which need moving which I guess is something a utility company has to do so maybe they are still waiting
Clive Walker
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Wow that is an absolutely staggering amount of Zero progress.!
- May 8, 2018
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Are the transfer team overseeing the schedule?
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brighton_tom
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- Jul 23, 2008
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If it’s anything like boxpark then lots of the structure will be created off site, and quite a simple fitting together & bolting into place when it arrives at the Amex. It’s not like a house with lots of brick walls to build. It’s shipping container style boxes for the food outlets inside a bigger steel structure. So we’ll probably see lots of slow foundations work for months, as if the process is going at snails pace, and then the main structure will quickly go up over a couple of weeks.
Is it ?
-looks like the ground surface is new, so possibly have sorted all the underground cabling issues etc and readied it for the meccano-type ready made structure to be put in place
-looks like new ramp (or switchback off of the existing one down to where the away team buses park post-match) that’s been added to the NW corner ?
Don’t spoil the naysayer’s fun
Looks like reinforcement for the foundation piles in the foreground of the first picture. They must be starting piling soon.
They'd have had to do all the pre-construction work like confirming service locations and moving cables out the way, and the work on preparing the ground for the work. Not at all unusual for all that stuff to take longer on site than the actual construction work.
Of course, being a modern, well run organisation, I'm sure the club had all the construction records showing exactly where all the pipes and cables were.
el punal
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Barham's tash
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I continue to be absolutely staggered by how construction tenders seem to be so consistent. #Adenstar again?!
brighton_tom
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- Jul 23, 2008
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Sorry, yeah so that Tony Barber bloke can’t get anything right! Shambles!Don’t spoil the naysayer’s fun
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Local firm tho eh? That's all good shirley? And the club, being a private concern with only one major shareholder, are under no real obligation to put anything major out to tender unless they really want to. Companies House search facility is your friend here. Interesting rabbit hole to be sure...
dolphins
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I had a quick look after Father's Day lunch at HB's and definitely much more advanced than then. It was clear to see then the cable/pipe run that they had to deal with. When the stadium was constructed there would have been no thought at that point of a Fan Zone or whatever, so it's not a massive surprise that they had an issue to sort as one of the first jobs.
On a separate note, on the same day it looked like there was another lift being worked on to get up to the coach park - presume the existing gets busy!
Pliny the Gull
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- Mar 4, 2024
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Don't believe it!! Chelsea have put a bid in for the meccano structure, bar area, and ladies and gentlemens rest rooms.
Will have to quickly source another.
Beer Hall from Munich I suggest.
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Will have to quickly source another.
Beer Hall from Munich I suggest.
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