Dynamo Stadium Episode I: A New Home

Why not go with FIFA dimension -
74 X 115 (yards - 68 X 105M)

 

August 27, 2011: Pilgrimage

When I arrived they were placing the skeleton for one of the 200 sections.

 

Here Robertson overlain across the drawing of the new stadium. The drawing is accurate enough.



Compared to Robinson, the new stadium is adding a lot of extra sideline space especially if Dom continues to line the field small which he likes to do.


https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showpost.php?p=22826115&postcount=97

 

The field dimensions used in this drawing are 75 x 115.

 

I don't see that. It looks to me like the sideline of the field is the same distance from the seats in both pictures. On my monitor it is 1/2" in both.

EDIT: Ah, hah. You are saying it will be farther away if the Dynamo line the field as narrow as it is at Robertson. The word "especially" threw me off. The front row is farther from the field only if they line the field narrow, not "especially" if they do so.

 

Its not right. RT is lined to 75 yards. Google Maps has a built in measuration tool that makes it easy to look at these things.

 

Find a tool that lets you count pixels. It more accurate than holding a ruler to the screen.

 

OK. But nowhere near 5-7 rows difference.

 

Wow they are really moving! Ready by next season?

 

It is supposed to open in May of 2012.

 

I know the May date has been out there for a while but I originally thought it was April. If i remember right the first time I heard May was when CC said "We are still on schedule to open in May." I was like.. what happened to April.

The other thing I wonder is they say the drought has really helped us and they havent lost any days thus we are still on schedule for May. If you havent lost any days shouldnt you be ahead of schedule? Did they come up with the schedule assuming the worst drought in our recent history and allocated no missed work days??

 

I haven't heard April in a long time. Back in June was when I first heard the date "May 4, 2012". I guess it depends on what you mean by "originally". Back around the official groundbreaking they might have been saying April but that gradually changed into May through the spring and then the May 4 date popped up.

And I have heard some FO people say that construction is, in fact, a few days ahead of schedule. Construction schedules are flexible things. The dry weather this summer means they have avoided delays but that doesn't automatically translate into getting things done sooner. They don't necessarily work as fast as they can with the maximum crews possible all the time. For one thing, supplies are delivered on schedules and some things like concrete dry-time are fixed so the lack of delays doesn't necessarily speed up the overall schedule.

 

I remember at one time hearing March but that was before groundbreaking and before funding had been secured. Now I'm not an expert and have absolutely no inside information, but maybe we are ahead of schedule but they're trying to keep expectations in check. For all we know they may finish in late April. I mean that drought thing confused me when I first heard it, too.

 

Um...they broke ground later than expected. I haven't seen April given as a date in about a year. Ever since they finalized things and had the ribbon cutting it's been May 2012.

 

I don't think that's quite right. Back in January and February they were still saying April, 2012.

Before the groundbreaking on January 21, 2011:

http://www.houstondynamo.com/news/2011/01/canettis-corner-january-21-2011

Then from February 5, 2011 after the groundbreaking:

http://www.houstondynamo.com/news/2011/02/stadium-dream-becomes-reality-dynamo

As we know, construction did not start immediately and that's when we started hearing April or May which turned into May.

 

We all know it'll break ground on May 2012... plus or minus 60 to 90 days

 

Pictures from August 26:

 

August 28:

 

August 29:



The shiny part in the middle of the framework is where they have started laying the metal horizontally that will support the floor of the club or lounge area on the west side.

 

I overlaid the both and my rough calculations:
-40 ft field to 1st row of 200s - both stadiums
-85 ft field to last row of 200s at New stadium
-140 ft field to last row of 200s at Rob
-90 ft field to last row of middle section of 200s at Rob

That is just estimated 1-D distance to field. Anyones guess on the slope of the stands.
So from that, the last seat of the 200s in the new stadium is similar distance from that weird walled off part of Robertsons 200s.

 

anyone know or hear about the tech amenities? It would be nice to have wifi, so those of with match center can have up to date stats. But that would be way toooo coool. Anyone know anything about anything else they have planned in that realm?

 

I think in the STH meeting, Canetti mentioned that they were looking at making it tech-friendly, which I read as wifi around the stadium.

Problem is, they may try to sell the rights to it (or the right to install the distributed wifi antennas around the park) to AT&T and make it free for those customers and not others - or at least that would be my concern.

 

I have been asking about WiFi and I've been told that the decision is made to have WiFi throughout the stadium. Hot diggity.

 

Also, if you can be distracted from your phone, tablet, or laptop, I hear there is going to be a live game played on the field simultaneously.