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| Workers remove roofing panels from a building in the construction zone. Photos by Gerard O'Brien. |
The first signs of construction activity on the $198 million
Awatea St stadium are evident as a security fence around the
building site goes up and some parts of the buildings on site
come down.
Carisbrook Stadium Trust chairman Malcolm Farry was exuberant
about the activity.
"We've been a long time waiting for this. Although it's only
simple things happening at this stage, we're very excited.
"And it will be even more exciting when we see the cranes and
earth-moving equipment come in."
Mr Farry said the site was going through a "mobilisation"
stage at present in which a fence is erected to control
access as part of health and safety requirements.
During the past two years, the site was used by up to 180
vehicles a day for parking because it was close to the
University of Otago.
Work had already begun on stripping the linings and roofing
of some of the buildings on site in preparation for their
demolition which would begin in the first week of June, he
said.
Construction offices and work sites for Hawkins Construction
staff and contractors would also be put in place during the
next two weeks.
In the middle of June, the first foundation piles would be
constructed and by the first week of July, heavy earth-moving
equipment and large cranes would begin to appear on site.
