(09-28-2021 10:47 AM)Middle Ages Wrote:  

(09-28-2021 10:40 AM)Grungy Wrote:  As Hambone says, one of the issues with improving HRS is increasing the available amperage.
The concession areas can't cook on-site, because there's no power for it.
There's no power for walk-in cooler/freezers, either.
All concessions rely on product shipped in.
There is some refrigerator space, but it's nothing like the facilities at other stadia.

All power on campus is subterranean - there are no wires above ground.
Getting wires to the stadium from either of the power plants requires crossing the invisible Harris Gully.
How much spare capacity is there in the existing conduit?

How did they get sufficient capability installed to power Patterson and the practice dome?
Patterson requires significantly more power than either the original north end restroom structure or the large scoreboards.
The dome is another thing altogether.
They ran power to it from the west side of the stadium, beneath the Greenbriar lot.

They found some way to pull in more amps for those improvements.
What would it take to bring in more?

I know those are all real issues that would have to be dealt with, but it all sounds trivial when you compare it to the original construction of Rice Stadium, the completion of which took 9 months (guys that were around then, please confirm, but I believe I have that right)