[Maple Leaf]

Just 17 years ago, it allegedly cost Stanford $90 million to renovate the stadium. That number seems really, really low. . . .

I seem to recall that the rammed earth bowl within which the stadium sat greatly reduced the amount of new construction. Hence the relatively low cost of the new stadium (had to build the upper deck and press box, the rest was just refurbishing). Having Arillaga around helped too.

I suspect Arillaga hammered a lot of cost out of renovating Stanford Stadium. And a fair amount of it was cosmetic...

One of the costs savings advantages that Stanford Stadium had was the abundance of open space directly adjacent to the stadium which allowed for stagging of construction equipment and materials well in advance of when such items would be needed per the construction schedule.  Add in also the ease of access to the stadium from El Camino Real/Page Mill Road/101 and 280.  The abundance of available area in which to work also reduced the design/engineering constraints of the architects/engineers/construction manager(s).

[Maple Leaf]

Just 17 years ago, it allegedly cost Stanford $90 million to renovate the stadium. That number seems really, really low. . . .

I seem to recall that the rammed earth bowl within which the stadium sat greatly reduced the amount of new construction. Hence the relatively low cost of the new stadium (had to build the upper deck and press box, the rest was just refurbishing). Having Arillaga around helped too.

I suspect Arillaga hammered a lot of cost out of renovating Stanford Stadium. And a fair amount of it was cosmetic...

One of the costs savings advantages that Stanford Stadium had was the abundance of open space directly adjacent to the stadium which allowed for stagging of construction equipment and materials well in advance of when such items would be needed per the construction schedule.  Add in also the ease of access to the stadium from El Camino Real/Page Mill Road/101 and 280.  The abundance of available area in which to work also reduced the design/engineering constraints of the architects/engineers/construction manager(s).