"The benches on the east side of the stadium will remain as that section of the structure is not part of the retrofit project." Here begins the haves and the have not debate. I'm glad I'm a haver. No more will I have to battle bench hogs for my seat.

18 News pics of the SAHPC are available here.

86Oski;395726 said:

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And a web-cam would be coolest.

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Hey didn't the furd have web cams?

And so should Cal have webcams. Positioned on the East Rim or Tightwad Hill, if I were to place them.

<stifled rant>

I went for a walk around Memorial, and I was amazed by the amount of activity in the west-side of the bowl. There are a lot of temporary buildings hindering different angles of view, so I ventured into the mud on Tightwad hill to capture the action.

Yes, that's dirt on the west-side bowl... The retaining wall is visible near the South tunnel.



You can see a tractor on the left moving dirt in a deep ditch.



In this next pic, you can see that the press box is a skeleton, while the cement is being crushed in the middle of the field. The two field-level tunnel entrances are visible as well.



Another tractor was removing dirt from the side of the bowl, while you can see 2 of the temporary structures above the east-side in the foreground in these pics.







This excavator was single-handily grabbing between 5 and 10 rows of one section at at time and crushing them into small pieces. I was amazed how easily it demolished the sections that I failed to capture the event. It made me really glad we didn't experience a major quake in these later years during a game.





In the following pic, there's a tall stack of metal bleachers. It looks like they'll be replacing the wooden ones on the east-side with these, since a crew can be clearly seen removing and stacking the wooden bleaches in the second and third pics.







This pic shows the view from the Cannon area. Someone placed a couple of plastic chairs up there for your viewing comfort.



GO BEARS!

Great stuff Jan - thanks!

Yes..........the metal bleachers from through out the stadium will be installed on the East Side...per plan.

Thanks for the great photos......and climbing up tightwad hill in the mud!

GO BEARS!

Thanks for the great pictures, Jankoski; and for doing the legwork for us!

thanks jan for doing the work, going up to tightwad hill in the mud, yuk! go bears!!!

Great shots. As you said lots of progress. Thanks for stepping in. I have been unable to get up to Memorial for two weeks for a good Cal reason. My family are Bears because of Barbara Pinger '45 (speaker at graduation)our Mom. She just moved to a senior community in Oakland and we have had long days at her house clearing out decades of a long, good life and then helping her get settled.

Cal Sports Report - Memorial Stadium

Thanks PRD74!

Photo Gallery 1-13-2011


Memorial Stadium Retrofit and Renovation

Artist Slideshow Dec 2010

Artist Slideshow June 2010

No worries, pepman... It looks like the CAL AD is finally getting it together and taking pictures, although they aren't being as bold as you and I in venturing to a bird's eye view. Plus, there are enough of us locals, if they don't give us visuals. I must warn you, though, Tightwad hill is very slick in some areas with the down pours we had a couple of weeks ago.

Heh. I was right, that is a moat they're digging around the perimeter. Too bad it'll be covered up.

Hmmm...

I'm most intrigued by the big, open interior space in the artist Dec 2010 link (4th image after initial load). That seems wrong - if those are the existing archways to the outside, they seem too wide. Additionally, I don't see how that much space is opened up given the cut through like the 1st image....

Would love further details on the actual interior plan.

Here's a link to Webcors site showing some recent photos - including pavement inside the stadium. One giant blacktop...


http://www.webcor.com/projects/all-projects/institutional/cal-memorial-stadium/

Retrofit of Stadium Straddling Active Fault Moves Forward

Interesting read on the engineering by Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc. in the seismic retrofit of Cal Memorial's West Side.

On the webcam it looks like the demolition/excavation process is mostly complete. I saw a video about the SAHPAC center a few months ago. I wish someone could provide an update on the status of that project.

I cannot wait for the 2012 season.

Wannabe, As of last week, the SAHPC looks to be almost complete from the outside. They're near completion of placing the facade of flat rocks on the outer wall. Most or all windows are installed. Near the 50 yard line of the Stadium, a tunnel goes through the structure for access to the Stadium. It still has some pipes and wires showing on its ceiling, but they've installed large windows and doors on each side of it. Finally, a wide staircase was poured months ago that leads to the structure from Piedmont near the I-house. I imagine there's the same kind of progress within that I can't vouch for.

Jankowski,

Thanks for the update.

It is hard to be so far away and not be able to walk up and see these things.

Oskiwannabe

http://bearinsider.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Great video by MoragaBear!

You need to be a Bear Insider subscriber to see it.

Poorly played, Calfans... You guys have a front page ad for this, why tease us freeloaders?

Time to crack the wallet Jan....

There is a new (to me at least) crane on site that is really big! Can't really tell what it is doing, because it extends up and out of the frame...

(Absolutely gorgeous shot of the Bay, by the way, this was from April 4th at 12pm).

You're talking about the big mobile crane for the CMS construction, right? It is massive from my viewing of it on last thursday, and it is being used to build a stationary crane as seen in the cam photos, today.

Yep, that's it! Are you saying that the stationary crane was built yesterday, and so will be in the cam photos today? (They seem to be lagged by a day).

God forbid they don't screw over everyone with their parking ticket scam. I have never ever ever been to a worse city to park in with more aggressive meter cops. Parking as a service? No, it's a revenue stream.

Yeah, the lag time is silly at this stage of the internet age. I guess they want to edit any bad situations like Dumpster Muffin climbing something.

I'll be on campus again on Thursday, and I'll take a pic for you... I think the stationary crane's top will be out of the webcam's frame. It takes them several days to construct these cranes, so it will likely be moving big stuff into CMS by the end of this week.

passed by earlier today and there is a second crane being built. 2 cranes for the price of 1!!! they are making good progress on the dirt removal as well. had to be at least a truck leaving every minute or less.

Sweet, thanks jankoski. I was in town somewhat recently and made a point to drive by CMS twice so I could check it out, it helps to get pics! And thanks for the update kcal9.

Hard to believe this is all actually happening still.

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passed by earlier today and there is a second crane being built. 2 cranes for the price of 1!!! they are making good progress on the dirt removal as well. had to be at least a truck leaving every minute or less.

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Where are they moving all the dirt??

EchoOfSilence;496539 said:

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Where are they moving all the dirt??

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i dont know, i wasnt following the trucks. does it really matter? im sure it is some dump that is relatively close because these trucks are moving back and forth allllll day

There is a giant, growing mound of dirt west of I-80 @ University. I believe the dirt is being dumped there.

schristeck;498974 said:

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There is a giant, growing mound of dirt west of I-80 @ University. I believe the dirt is being dumped there.

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I was told today that Chevron is getting the dirt.
Not sure where.

From the webcam, it looks like there's a section of concrete poured on the west end. Any guesses as to what's going on at this point? Also, it appears they have built one of the cranes right where the stands are supposed to go (southwest). Are they gonna build other sections first or build up around the crane?

pierrezo;501082 said:

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From the webcam, it looks like there's a section of concrete poured on the west end. Any guesses as to what's going on at this point? Also, it appears they have built one of the cranes right where the stands are supposed to go (southwest). Are they gonna build other sections first or build up around the crane?

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I'm not in that industry but I would think it would be for the cranes and equipment needed to build the new press box and upper sections which need all those cranes