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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2024</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
NEWS 15<br />
Te Kaha stadium<br />
reaches new heights<br />
TE KAHA – Canterbury’s<br />
multi-use arena – has hit a new<br />
milestone, with the first of 40<br />
radial trusses being installed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> trusses are large steel<br />
structures that will support the<br />
roof of the 30,000 seat arena.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> individual steel components<br />
are delivered to site and assembled<br />
into large radial trusses.<br />
Each truss weighs between 45<br />
and 75 tonnes and will be lifted<br />
into place by a 400-tonne crane<br />
that we have brought in for<br />
the job,” said Te Kaha project<br />
delivery chief executive David<br />
Kennedy.<br />
<strong>The</strong> radial trusses and roof<br />
structure will continue to be<br />
built and installed over the next<br />
12 months.<br />
“This is an exciting milestone in<br />
the project. Passers-by will start<br />
to see the spectacular scale of the<br />
arena as the 37m-tall trusses are<br />
put in place. When finished, Te<br />
Kaha will stand 48m at its highest<br />
point, or around seven stories<br />
high,” said Kennedy.<br />
Construction of the $683<br />
million stadium is due to be<br />
completed midway through<br />
2026 after years of planning<br />
conjecture and stalled progress.<br />
SKY HIGH: <strong>The</strong> first of 40 radial trusses has been installed<br />
on Te Kaha arena.<br />
PHOTO: NEWSLINE<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre’s shipping<br />
containers removed<br />
• By Geoff Sloan<br />
THE EYESORE shipping<br />
containers that have been<br />
propping up the facade of the<br />
former Odeon <strong>The</strong>atre for more<br />
than a decade have finally been<br />
removed.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir removal from the front of<br />
the Tuam St building will allow<br />
temporary structural strengthening<br />
work to begin.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 19th century Italianatestyle<br />
building opened in <strong>18</strong>83,<br />
and is the oldest masonry theatre<br />
in New Zealand.<br />
It was badly damaged in the<br />
February 22, 2011 earthquake,<br />
with Environment Canterbury<br />
buying the category 1 heritage<br />
• Watch the video on<br />
<strong>Star</strong>news.co.nz<br />
building in 2020, on an ‘as is,<br />
where is’ basis.<br />
<strong>The</strong> auditorium and rear section<br />
of the Odeon <strong>The</strong>atre was<br />
demolished in 2015 due to safety<br />
concerns.<br />
ECan called for public feedback<br />
last year on what should happen<br />
to the historic building, but a<br />
decision on its future is yet to be<br />
made.<br />
Repairs to the road and<br />
surrounding footpaths are<br />
expected to be completed by<br />
March, allowing the path and<br />
second traffic lane in Tuam St to<br />
reopen.<br />
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