New BC Place roof can't close in the rain

[DaJo]

Waste of money, they should fire the engineer who did this. I was really excited to see it completed but now this... -sigh-

[goo3]

Originally Posted by Kamui712

edit: this is basically how the first 2 pages of the thread play out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMcJTSQ-hk8

We get the politicians we deserve because the ones we vote for are the ones who either tell us what we want to hear or don't just don't tell us hoping we don't find out. How can you blame them if that's how the game is won?

We might want a 2002 Qwest for $450M, but I don't think that's gonna happen in 2010. Construction price index:

http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/econ144e-eng.htm

I don't know how much a new one would cost - maybe $600M, $700M, or $800M. How about we do some hw and find out before going "it's so simple, why don't those idiots just do this" ?

[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by DaJo

Waste of money, they should fire the engineer who did this. I was really excited to see it completed but now this... -sigh-

So becuase somthing happened that doesn't effect the look or functionality of it, now your no longer excited? :/
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[Liquid_o2]

The amount of stupidity in this thread is unbelievable for the most part.

People are acting like the builders, the engineers and the government all learned of this right now, when in fact they knew about this issue before construction began. It is only NOW, that the media has picked up on this issue, and since construction has already began, they have decided to blow it up and make it seem that nobody knew about it.

This roof is modeled after Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt. If you go to its Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerzbank-Arena there is an entire section devoted to its roof, and its positives and negatives. I read up on this when the roof was first announced, and if people weren't sheep and actually did 5 minutes of their own research, instead of looking towards the media for all their information, they too would have known about this issue long ago.

[tgill]

What an utterly BS sensationalist story.

Please name one stadium with a retractable roof (either cloth or steel) that is designed to be closed in high winds. The Skydome in Toronto which is not a cloth roof certainly cannot close or open in high winds without risking damage.

[lgman]

Originally Posted by Liquid_o2

The amount of stupidity in this city is unbelievable for the most part.

Fixed.

[TheKingdom2000]

i don't get it?
if the dome is closed, shouldn't all the water just bead off since it is on an angle?

[InvisibleSoul]

Originally Posted by mx703

i don't get it?
if the dome is closed, shouldn't all the water just bead off since it is on an angle?

I think the problem is WHILE it's opening or closing, a process that takes awhile. I don't know how long it will take on BC Place, but for the Skydome or Rogers Center, it takes 20 minutes. So during that time, enough water can collect in the folds to present a weight problem...