Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:14 am  

According to a post on Redvee a large section of the roof has blown off again.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:31 am  

roader wrote:

According to a post on Redvee a large section of the roof has blown off again.

I've seen the pictures on Facebook.

It's actually a very disturbing amount of damage considering you can get two or three storms a year on this scale.

I've not heard of sections of the DW, HJ or the KC Stadiums coming off in great big chunks. It doesn't entirely instill me with confidence.

Are we going to all sit in there on a gusty day waiting for a chunk of roof to blow off and nearly decapitate a winger a la Gary Mercer in 1990?

: Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:37 am  

And here is the picture (if it works from my phone!)


Will try again when home,but it has ripped up the corner where the kc statue is

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:40 am  

I think they needed to have done a bit more design work. http://www.in-cumbria.com/firm-complete ... rPath=home

I think they needed to have done a bit more design work. http://www.in-cumbria.com/firm-complete ... rPath=home

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:01 pm  

Does seem very poorly designed. Wind is clearly an issue for the structure.

I hope it's not the club forking out for the constant repairs.

Re: : Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:09 pm  

gateaux wrote:

Will try again when home,but it has ripped up the corner where the kc statue is

That's the same place as last time, except it was slightly further to the left as you look at KC's statue. It looks like either there has been shoddy workmanship along that stretch of roofing or there is a design fault given that will probably be where the prevailing winds hit the stadium hardest. If it's a design fault then that could turn out to be a real nightmare as this will be a recurring problem without an adjustment to the structure of the roof.

A single occurrence of this could be down to teething problems with a new build. That it has happened again is very serious and worrying.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:32 pm  

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:52 pm  

From that picture it looks like we have a roof made of aluminium foil.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:53 pm  

God that's awful. We're screwed if this problem can't be sorted.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Jan 03, 2012 1:10 pm  

This is a big worry. It obviously needs to be rectified before the widnes game, but the contractors wont be allowed up there whist the winds are still as bad. Also, how do incidents like this affect the ground safety certificate??

Looks like a specification issue to me - the structural engineer/designer has specified a roof lining that should be able to stand the wind loading, only to find in the cold hard light of day that it cant. The trouble is, the cantilevers that hold the roof structure will have been designed to carry the loading that the current materials provide. If you now have to go for something more substantial, it will be heavier and the steelwork may not be designed to carry it. Most dead loading will have a 60% factor of safety, which may be upped as its a roof that could at some stage be covered with snow. That may be sufficient to enable them to reinstall a new roof lining that is more substantial, but only the Structural Engineer would know that. I think Saints will have no option but to make a statement on this pretty soon.