Bobby Dodd Renovation in the NE Stands

[TooTall]

What happened to this thread? This was a thread about the NEZ construction…

I see by the number of messages you've posted that you are fairly new. Welcome! And this is just how it goes. Changing the messages from the thread topic? This is the GT Swarm. You can do that!

 

[Lil G]

With the above being said
Anybody got eyes on construction? Any movement since season started? Any and all pics are always welcomed

 

[Golden Tornadoes]

What happened to this thread? This was a thread about the NEZ construction…

Thread topics are more like "suggestions" than actual hard and fast regulations. De-railing a thread is like a rite-of-passage here!

 

[stinger78]

Thread topics are more like "suggestions" than actual hard and fast regulations. De-railing a thread is like a rite-of-passage here!

They all eventually turn into snarky discussions about uniform colors.

 

[stinger78]

Watching the Stanford-NCSU game in Raleigh. There are numerous empty seats, however, they are harder to spot since the seats are all red. Assuming our fanbase can wear some shade of gold, we may get that “benefit,” too.

 

[UgaBlows]

Our chair-backs should be randomized White, Gold (with multiple shades of gold/yellow), and Navy Blue to match our crowd

 

[stinger78]

Our chair-backs should be randomized White, Gold (with multiple shades of gold/yellow), and Navy Blue to match our crowd

We could call it “GT Camo.” Come to think about it, maybe that’s a uni, too?

 

[rush3225]

Arrived for summer quarter as an early enrollee and had gymnastics class in the Heisman gym.
It got pretty toasty in there with no A/C!

Had drownproofing in there with McAuley. Him and Decubas. Worried all quarter about that 2 length underwater swim, but I made it

 

[jpw67]

Batt posted this pic morning of the Miami game. Nice view showing clearly the removed sections. Hard to see status of the construction from this though...

 

[Randy Carson]

Our chair-backs should be randomized White, Gold (with multiple shades of gold/yellow), and Navy Blue to match our crowd

How about throwing in some random colored seats like red, orange, and blue to match our season ticket holders who sell their seats to the opposing team's fans?

 

[stinger78]

How about throwing in some random colored seats like red, orange, and blue to match our season ticket holders who sell their seats to the opposing team's fans?

Gray. That will match all colors.

 

[LongforDodd]

The architects and structural engineers are applying their approved designs to the layout the previous Edge building's piering system hoping to save the costs of all new foundations.

 

[gte447f]

The architects and structural engineers are applying their approved designs to the layout the previous Edge building's piering system hoping to save the costs of all new foundations.

Source? Asking for a curious helluva structural engineer.

 

[LongforDodd]

Source? Asking for a curious helluva structural engineer.

I'm winding down my 45 year career in infrastructure rebuilding and large industrial facilities management. I am my source.
I'm conjecturing that this is what was/is happening based upon my peering the thru the construction fencing one day right after they cleared the site from the demo debris. Some layout engineers had their instruments out there seeming to setting up their instruments over the Edge piers as if they were surveying them and mapping them out.
I haven't been there in a few weeks but from the photo posted after the Miami game it does not seem like any foundation work is ongoing after the many weeks that have passed since the site was cleared and ready for the foundations.
Again, just my conjecturing.

 

[buzzn3]

I'm winding down my 45 year career in infrastructure rebuilding and large industrial facilities management. I am my source.
I'm conjecturing that this is what was/is happening based upon my peering the thru the construction fencing one day right after they cleared the site from the demo debris. Some layout engineers had their instruments out there seeming to setting up their instruments over the Edge piers as if they were surveying them and mapping them out.
I haven't been there in a few weeks but from the photo posted after the Miami game it does not seem like any foundation work is ongoing after the many weeks that have passed since the site was cleared and ready for the foundations.
Again, just my conjecturing.

Took this through the fence before the miami game if it provides any additional insight to those who know what they're looking at

 

[LongforDodd]

Took this through the fence before the miami game if it provides any additional insight to those who know what they're looking at

Cool. Good recon. It looks like they are moving along with some footings and some lower level concrete walls. Maybe the elevator pit up against the existing stadium.

 

[Randy Carson]

The architects and structural engineers are applying their approved designs to the layout the previous Edge building's piering system hoping to save the costs of all new foundations.

So, following the Tech tradition which began when we built right over top of the east stands, we're building right over the old Edge.

Perfect.

 

[iceeater1969]

How about throwing in some random colored seats like red, orange, and blue to match our season ticket holders who sell their seats to the opposing team's fans?

Spit my coke funny. That would be hilarious

Actually, we should paint a dot thats the other team's colors on the concrete in front of the seat sold to opposing team. A guy in my area would look like a qhilt.

Great post.

 

[stinger78]

Batt posted this pic morning of the Miami game. Nice view showing clearly the removed sections. Hard to see status of the construction from this though...
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I would love to see us turn Techwood into a one way north and close the west lane, allowing us to expand the LE to match the LW, and then, at some point, add a new UE to form symmetrical west and east stands.

 

[Tommy_Taylor_1972]

Took this through the fence before the miami game if it provides any additional insight to those who know what they're looking at

Seeing the buzzin3 picture of the northeast corner of the former Grant Field (now Hyundai Field) brought back memories of the history of that northeast corner, which was part of the original eight acres provided as the original land for the Georgia School of Technology in 1885. A railroad man turned land developer and namesake for Peters Park, Richard Peters, donated 4 and sold another 4 acres to the state Board of Regents to build Tech. The flat land, aka called the "the Flats" is where the Coach Heisman's football and baseball games were played. in 1920, the northeast corner of the Flats was the outdoor court of Tech's first intercollegiate basketball team in 1920, coached by Coach Alexander as a member of the Southern Conference. Then they discovered it got cold and rained during the winter, so the home games moved to the Atlanta Auditorium. In the early 1930's, basketball was moved back on campus to play in a small gym built on that same northeast corner by federal funds, which was called the Naval Armory to support Navy ROTC and ceremonies. One of two 4-sport letter winners at Tech, Coach Hyder played basketball there in 1932-1937, with Coach Dodd as his freshman team coach. There was no room on the narrow bleachers except for students and faculty, with no other fans allowed to watch the games. The Tech team, then in the SEC beginning in 1932, was 10-0 undefeated SEC regular seasons champions in 1937 and SEC tournament champions in 1938 (but no NCAA tournaments, with the NCAA tournament beginning in 1939, a year after the NIT began). with no fans at home games except students. After 1939, the Heisman gym and pool were built next door to the west, where Tech beat Kentucky regularly and we had class registration there. I played many a pickup game in the hot or cold, depending on the time of year, in the naval armory. In November 1956, Alexander Memorial Coliseum (now McCamish Pavilion ) was built with the current 32 steel beams from the Atlantic Steel Company on 17th Street as Tech's basketball home court, with Tech losing the home opener to , of all teams, the Duke Blue Devils. The naval armory on the north east corner met it's demise with opening of the Edge Center in 1981. And the Edge Center was demolished in 2024 for the building of the Fanning Center, to be completed in 2025.

My apologies for the lengthy history of the northeast corner of Hyundai Field. I really like that acre of land, mainly because it was across the breezeway from Miss Twiggs' athletic training table, the best food I ever ate up to that point in my life. All the Tech athletes ate there three meals a day and many lifetime friends were made.