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An updated design of the proposed stadium in Awatea St could be available to the public late next month, after the latest draft was sent back to designers for more work.
Carisbrook Stadium Trust chief executive Darren Burden said yesterday "a lot of time and effort" had been spent on the design of the ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) roof, including mapping kicking heights in Super 14 rugby games to check the 25m height of trusses was adequate.
Mr Burden said yesterday the trust had been given a presentation this week from consultants HOK Sport Architecture and Jasmax, who are designing the stadium as a joint venture.
The trust had given feedback on what it had seen, and more work would be done on the design, based on that feedback.
The latest information would not be released to the public as it was "a bit of a moving feast", but the trust would probably provide some sort of design report for the first Dunedin City Council finance and strategy committee on November 26, following the local body elections.
He said little had changed in the design, which was "pretty much exactly the same" as in a feasibility report released early this year, but with more certainty and definition.
The work on mapping the kicking height was a peer review of work already done and would be followed by "geo-spatial research".
The trust was "very mind ful" of the need to come up with information for the pub lic, and a new set of reports would be made available in December.
- OTAGO DAILY TIMES
