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I'm sure others have seen this before but they are showing Megaroof: Rebuilding of BC Place on Knowledge HD on Shaw right now up here in PG. It's being replayed again at 11:00 tonight and 6:00pm tomorrow night. Very interesting.
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Yes, I recall we had a thread about it a couple of years ago where someone even posted a youtube video of it, but "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Discovery International" is what you get when you try to open it now.Hambone wrote:I'm sure others have seen this before but they are showing Megaroof: Rebuilding of BC Place on Knowledge HD on Shaw right now up here in PG. It's being replayed again at 11:00 tonight and 6:00pm tomorrow night. Very interesting.
Speaking of the roof I wonder how it's holding up with some of the heavy rain we've had so far this fall. It was in the news a couple months ago that the roof sprang a leak during a Whitecaps game.
There was also a story two weeks ago on CTV's website entitled "Public never told about falling debris at BC Place", an article which IMHO seems a little biased. The article really refers to risk of falling debris while opening/closing the roof, back in 2012 (and now presumably no longer the case), which is never done with the public in attendance anyway (except on opening night 2011/09/30 when it went off without a hitch).
There's also reference to a "widely-reported leaking problem [that] has been mocked repeatedly over the years" but I don't know about that. This isn't Montreal's Olympic Stadium we're talking about. The original roof collapsed in Jan 2007 some 23-24 years after installation as it was nearing the end of its originally forecast lifespan and there was the Whitecaps incident (incorrectly reported in the article as occurring during a Lions game). I'm not aware of any other "repeated mocking".
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