Demolishing stadium: $2B?
Slow news weekend, most media are carrying this CP piece about whether the demolition of the Olympic stadium would really cost $2 billion.
In Le Devoir, Stéphane Baillargeon compares how editorial cartoonists responded to the news that Quebec plans to spend $870 million to redo the roof, then turns to the question whether demolition would be preferable to renovation.
Kevin 11:53 on 2024-02-11 Permalink
I get the sense the people creating these insane prices are just bullshitting.
It’s like when you go shopping for an item and there are three variants available, one that is obviously shitty but costs 80-90% of the middle one, and a third that has a few extra bells and whistles but at 300% the cost of the middle one. So you buy the middle one and go home thinking you’re a smart shopper, when in reality you’ve been manipulated by marketing.
The tricky part of dealing with tensioned concrete is replacing the nuts and plates that keep the cables under tension. Once that’s loose, the whole thing can be dropped with no added risk.
To replace the technical ring of the Olympic stadium, they have to remove and replace those same nuts and plates.