Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:03 pm  

SAINTSAM wrote:

For the first time I actually believed the build timescales that the club advised which would have meant the project starting about now! especially as its our last season at KR

However I had a chat with some wire fans who work for some construction company involved with the tender process and they say nothing has been decided at this time as to who's got the job. Obviously they are hoping its Barrs as they would do the foundations and footings for the stadium.

When it comes to steelwork and the subcontracting out of the various phases are we realistically looking at months rather than weeks.

I hope I am wrong but the loud silence from the club is worrying me.

Not necessarily. Should Barr be successful, they have in-house capabilities for; steelwork, precast concrete (terrace units) and cladding. Bowmer and Kirkland also have steelwork and cladding as part of their group structure.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:14 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote: Not necessarily. Should Barr be successful, they have in-house capabilities for; steelwork, precast concrete (terrace units) and cladding. Bowmer and Kirkland also have steelwork and cladding as part of their group structure. Just reading your post shows how tricky finding the best value for money tender application. Barr also have an agreement with Tesco, dont know if that would be of any help to Barr with this tender. http://www.barr.co.uk/retail.html

getdownmonkeyman wrote: Not necessarily. Should Barr be successful, they have in-house capabilities for; steelwork, precast concrete (terrace units) and cladding. Bowmer and Kirkland also have steelwork and cladding as part of their group structure. Just reading your post shows how tricky finding the best value for money tender application. Barr also have an agreement with Tesco, dont know if that would be of any help to Barr with this tender. http://www.barr.co.uk/retail.html

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:35 pm  

The Doghead wrote: Just reading your post shows how tricky finding the best value for money tender application. Barr also have an agreement with Tesco, dont know if that would be of any help to Barr with this tender. http://www.barr.co.uk/retail.html Tesco and their agreements are a little loose at the moment.

The Doghead wrote: Just reading your post shows how tricky finding the best value for money tender application. Barr also have an agreement with Tesco, dont know if that would be of any help to Barr with this tender. http://www.barr.co.uk/retail.html Tesco and their agreements are a little loose at the moment.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Sun Apr 18, 2010 12:47 pm  

Ok people our regular Sunday update is here









The piles of rubble are on the retail side of the linkway, and its where the roundabout is going

amd as you can see there is quite a lot of banking already gone

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Sun Apr 18, 2010 2:19 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Not necessarily. Should Barr be successful, they have in-house capabilities for; steelwork, precast concrete (terrace units) and cladding. Bowmer and Kirkland also have steelwork and cladding as part of their group structure.

I heard a little whisper that the precast will be made near the site and not brought in.

Is bowmer kirkland in for job? they have been subbing there ground work out to a firm called abbey civils.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Apr 19, 2010 10:07 am  

St pete wrote:

I heard a little whisper that the precast will be made near the site and not brought in.

Is bowmer kirkland in for job? they have been subbing there ground work out to a firm called abbey civils.

Bowmer and Kirkland are bidding as a joint venture. B&K are looking at the Tesco side of things and a Leeds based contractor is looking at the stadium side (can't think of their name at the mo).

As for the precast side of things, are you saying they would be cast in-situ? I really can't see that as bringing the moulds to site would be as big a logistical task as bringing the units to site. That is even before considering the space required.

The only guys who have the capablity locally to manufacture terrace units are based in Bolton, but at the end of the day it will be a commercial decision.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Apr 19, 2010 1:12 pm  

So, given there are a few bods posting on this thread that appear to have a bit more knowledge than 'Why aren't I being told anything. It's a disgrace!' type posts, a question.

Seeing as there are still buildings on the land that don't look like they've been touched since the big one came down, and the land is reported to need some kind of decontamination, is this groundwork be factored into the build time or will be added on? And will they wait for the road to be finished before starting it so the heavy equipment will have access to the site?

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Apr 19, 2010 1:37 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

So, given there are a few bods posting on this thread that appear to have a bit more knowledge than 'Why aren't I being told anything. It's a disgrace!' type posts, a question.

Seeing as there are still buildings on the land that don't look like they've been touched since the big one came down, and the land is reported to need some kind of decontamination, is this groundwork be factored into the build time or will be added on? And will they wait for the road to be finished before starting it so the heavy equipment will have access to the site?

The reason behind no news, I would imagine, is there is no news to tell. Procuring construction work is incomparable to almost every other form of procurement.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:07 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

The reason behind no news, I would imagine, is there is no news to tell. Procuring construction work is incomparable to almost every other form of procurement.

I get that, I meant more knowledge of the building industry rather than this project.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:29 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Bowmer and Kirkland are bidding as a joint venture. B&K are looking at the Tesco side of things and a Leeds based contractor is looking at the stadium side (can't think of their name at the mo).

As for the precast side of things, are you saying they would be cast in-situ? I really can't see that as bringing the moulds to site would be as big a logistical task as bringing the units to site. That is even before considering the space required.

The only guys who have the capablity locally to manufacture terrace units are based in Bolton, but at the end of the day it will be a commercial decision.

Leeds based firm, is it Marshalls?