Miami Dolphin stadium renovation (And the Hurricanes).. Unfortunately it's going to more than likely not be completed by the start of the season...Completion date is up to the weather and a couple unions I'm sure.. The time lapse link is pretty cool... https://www.workzonecam.com/projects/miamidolphins/sunlifestadium/workzonecam
That... is a BUNCH of cranes dancing at once! Will it be a permanent roof, or a retractable like seems to be the rage right now?
It looks like its going to be a great stadium if they can get it finished in time. What is Miami's backup plan, both Dolphins and Hurricanes. Also Miami has suffered from woeful attendance for most except for FSU, and I'll bet whenever the Irish make a return visit for their ACC contest. Is there a sense that if Richt can get them going that the new stadium and a good team will result in better attendance?
Terry i do believe with Richt at the helm attendance will improve but we will never win any awards in that dept compared to other schools. Even in the glory days of undefeated seasons we never sold out the lower tier games. I hope if we do become competitive again I am proven wrong and it's a hard ticket to get for each and every game. The backup plan is for the Canes to play in Orlando if it's not completed but the latest news is it should be finished "enough" for us to play...The fins should have no worries because they start at a later date. Now the bad news....Rumor mill has it that the new name for the stadium will have Seminole in it...As in Seminole Indians, Seminole Tribe or Seminole Hardrock stadium...Makes me ill thinking that we will be playing at Seminole stadium, I hope the rumor is just that...
As far as the partial roof I never heard the reasoning why they didn't make it an optional enclosed stadium but I'm guessing $$$$
It will be interesting to see how that Natural Turf works with that roof. We tried with NRG to keep that going, even had tray system to swap out sections that were torn up but in the end it wasn't a very good surface and a lot of teams complained about it. With the open bowl, you get the full effect of the sunshine, but as soon as you put that partial roof then you limit the sunshine, not to mention shadows during the day when playing games. Although at Minute Maid Park (Astros), they have the sliding roof which is open during the day and mostly open at night but they have not had any problems with grass, it looks great. But then baseball wear and tear on grass is different from football.
Got the irrigation going on so it must be close to ready... Terry this artist rendition of what the field will look like when the Canes do play recognizes your question on fan attendance....The answer evidently is get a humongous tarp with your emblem on it and block one side of the field...
Looks like it's going to be a very good place to play. I remember when the stadium was built. I was in charge of a Florida Power and Light Transmission and Distribution work center and our crews did the electrical work. It was a great sense of pride to us as the Dolphins were big at that time.
SHADE!!! I love it! (that's the Texan in me) Ralph... watch for that field to be a little dicey. We had ours installed a month before the first game two years ago, and several days of heavy rain the week of the game caused it to never really be ready. Hopefully that doesn't happen in Miami...
. Although at Minute Maid Park (Astros), they have the sliding roof which is open during the day and mostly open at night but they have not had any problems with grass, it looks great. But then baseball wear and tear on grass is different from football. The genetically-enhanced Platinum TE Paspalum turf installed this week was the result of nearly two years of research into determining the most workable grass for a safe and durable field for football that will hold up to the impediments imposed by the new shade canopy covering the stands. Shielding fans from sun and rain is at odds with maintaining a lush, natural-grass field. *** "It was very much a [third grade] science project," said Todd Boyan, the Dolphins' senior vice president of stadium operations, who worked with the stadium grounds crew on testing a number of different grasses under limited-light conditions as well as augmented by grow lights. "It's wonderful that we have the ability to have the shade, because it will certainly make the fan experience a comfortable one in the seating bowl. We wanted to keep a natural-grass field. From a technical standpoint, there was a lot of work that went in behind the scenes to see which grass made the most sense."