(Written by kencraw)

When I was at the stadium on Tuesday I took more pictures of the SAHPC construction. Excavation is effectively complete but the real big news, at least for us ticket-holders, is the raised walkways that replace the asphalt walkway that used to go around the western rim of the stadium. That’s gone now because of the excavation. As I commented earlier this week, the University is doing everything it can to minimize the impact of the construction.

That includes installing a railing that replaces row 27 from sections D to HH to encourage people in the lower rows to exit towards the field, not towards the concourse:

There are really two raised walkways. One goes from the stairwell between sections EE and E and heads to the North parking lot (so every section from EE towards A can exit the stadium through the stairwell). Here’s what the walkway looks like from the stairwell:

Then there’s no exit between E and GG.

The 2nd raised walkway starts at the stairwell between GG and H and goes to the south parking lot. Here’s a picture of it as viewed from the south parking lot (well, close to there anyway):

Finally on the topic of the walkway, this is the best picture I took that shows what it’ll look like while on it:

As for the SAHPC itself, as I said above, the big breakthrough is all the excavation. Here’s the view towards the I-House (which also provides another view of the south raise walkway):

Also notice that the excavation on the northern side is not as deep, particularly on the western side of the building (I wish I had got some shots from the street to show the excavation up against the stadium on this side):

Finally, here’s the northern view where you can see the exit of the northern raised walkway as it exits to the north parking lot:

You can see the entire set of pictures here.