Shale, shale, everywhere!!!

[Historian]

Just a couple pictures I shot of the stadium work with my phone when I visited the Bills store today.

[sukie]

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Nice. Did ya squeeze out any earl?

[YardRat]

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The piles along RT 20 around the ECC campus are huge. I was expecting that when I opened the link.

[Forward_Lateral]

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Can you explain this to us non-Buffalonians?

[YardRat]

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Can you explain this to us non-Buffalonians?

There are small mountains of dug-up parking lot all over the OBD and ECC properties from the initial sitework being done on the new stadium.

[OpIv37]

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Painting boulders in Bills zubaz. The most Buffalo thing ever….

[Forward_Lateral]

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There are small mountains of dug-up parking lot all over the OBD and ECC properties from the initial sitework being done on the new stadium.

Ahhhh ok, thank you

[Historian]

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and in pic one, (I know they're lousy photos) you can see that they're digging out another bowl, which will be the field.

Even my son asked..."They're putting the field below ground level again?"

[notacon]

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and in pic one, (I know they're lousy photos) you can see that they're digging out another bowl, which will be the field.

Even my son asked..."They're putting the field below ground level again?"

Most NFL stadiums (and soccer worldwide) have the playing field below ground level within a “hole” dug into the ground. This is done for several reasons.

Of course, it lowers construction costs since it become much more expensive to support a large structure than using the ground formed by digging a hole. The ground becomes part of the support structure.

Fan experience is another reason to build below grade because it’s easier to walk down stairs to get to your seat than up. With the climb up to those seats above grade (and those seats below grade where they leave) with less of a climb.

Think if lowest concourse is at grade everyone will have a climb up....the highest seats a very difficult climb up. If half the seats are below grade, no one has to have a ridiculous climb.

This has been done for many years. Here is the Michigan stadium hole in 1927...

[YardRat]

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https://buffalonews.com/business/local/labella-plays-key-role-in-what-happens-with-that-big-hole-at-stadium-construction-site/article_d6a01732-3178-11ee-a1a1-630ee2bbc9fb.html

[TigerJ]

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Doesn't look like shale to me. Limestone?

[Historian]

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Better pictures:

[Historian]

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[Historian]

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[Historian]

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