Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Aerial footage of the construction of the new football stadium!
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
The stadium construction is still going! Check out the video and this
Tuesday, April 4, 2016
We took a tour of the stadium which has progressed nicely heading into the spring season!
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
It’s all about that glass. That tile. And those seats. Seventy-five workers – give or take a few – representing a dozen or so trades are clocking in at the new Wildcat Stadium daily as spring begins and the facility nears its opening this summer.
Read full story here.
Thursday, March 17, 2016
The UNH football team will pay a visit to an old haunt in the 2017 season. Athletics department officials this week finalized a deal to have the Wildcats play their FBS game at Georgia Southern University on Sept. 9, 2017, the second week of that season.
READ FULL STORY HERE.
Thursday, March 10, 2016
DURHAM, N.H. –
The University of New Hampshire Department of Athletics in conjunction with Service Credit Union announced Thursday the premium stadium club-seating area in the new Wildcat football stadium will be known as the Service Credit Union Victory Club.
READ FULL STORY HERE.
Friday, March 4, 2016
It won’t be long now before the stadium seats arrive. The 2016 season and a new era of UNH football will follow in a matter of months.
READ FULL STORY HERE
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire Department of Athletics took a major step toward an exciting new era when director of athletics
Marty Scarano
and head football coach
Sean McDonnell
on Wednesday night unveiled details about the Service Credit Union Victory Club that will be a centerpiece of the soon-to-open Wildcat Stadium.
READ FULL STORY HERE
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
A crew dismantled the Dungeon on Tuesday. The stands in one end zone, the student section of Cowell Stadium, were being taken apart in anticipation of the UNH football team’s offseason. At the same time, not far away on the back side of the new Wildcat Stadium, a line of heavy-duty lifts delivered materials to the upper reaches of the under-construction facility and workers carried out their duties on various levels of the building.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
And then there were two. The UNH football team will close the curtain on Cowell Stadium in short order. The Wildcats have three games remaining in the 2015 regular season and two of them are in their old facility.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
For the better part of a week, players, coaches, athletic trainers, staff members and others in and around the UNH Field House were invited to take Sharpie to steel and sign the final beam to be put in place atop the new Wildcat Stadium.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
The crane at the Wildcat Stadium construction site has been lifting beams to the highest points on the facility this week and the bulk of the main steel work will be done shortly.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Steel beams framed the Club area in the stadium this week.
A giant crane carried out its duties at the front of the new Wildcat Stadium on Thursday morning, lifting steel beam after steel beam high onto the facility.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Many UNH football fans got their first look at the new, under-construction Wildcat Stadium last Saturday during the team’s 57-14 win over Central Connecticut State University.
Thursday, September 10, 2015
UNH athletics director Marty Scarano spent a few days last week in sunny California with the Wildcat football team. He kept thinking about Durham.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Up We Go: First Steel Rises in Stadium
DURHAM, N.H. —
Crews assembled a towering 80-ton crane on the site of the new UNH Stadium on Tuesday.The crane went to work on a steamy Wednesday afternoon and began lifting into place the steel that will form the skeleton of the building and help bring the multi-purpose facility to life.
Read full story here
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
The concrete kept coming on Wednesday morning on the site of the new UNH stadium. Read full story here
Live Stream
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Let there be more lights. A towering crane raised another light tower in the UNH stadium on Tuesday morning. The lights are now set and in place for the new stadium. There are four towers on what will be the new home side of the field and two opposite them.
Read full story here
Friday, July 31, 2015
Another four loads of concrete were poured on Friday.
Turn the page. Here comes August. For the new UNH stadium taking shape behind the Field House it will be a month to start reaching skyward.
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Concrete was being poured this week for the new Stadium.
Going Up: Concrete Pour Begins In New Stadium
A couple of cement trucks rolled onto the construction site for the new UNH Stadium early on Thursday morning. The Stadium is heading upwards. Concrete pouring will be a major focus at the project site for the next six weeks or so.
Read full story here
Thursday, July 2
Pouring Of Concrete On Tap in Stadium Project
The pile-driving crane, its job complete, has left the site. A crew dismantled the crane and loaded it onto flatbed trucks on Thursday as setup and construction work continued on UNH’s new stadium site.
Thurs. June 18, 2015
Pile Driving Takes Top Billing In Stadium Project
Blasting gave way to pile driving this week on the site of the new UNH stadium. A crane operator began driving steel H-beams on Tuesday and it will take probably two to three weeks to sink about 140 beams that are the start of the foundation for the stadium, which will stand just over 80 feet.
Ground Breaking Ceremony
June 3, 2015
Fri. June 12, 2015
DURHAM, N.H. —
They were having a, well, blast on a sunny and hot Thursday afternoon at the UNH Stadium construction site. One of the projects over the next week or so in the stadium will be to blast and remove ledge that sits at the scoreboard end of the field where drainage trenches and other elements of the stadium will be.
Read full story here
Wed. June 3, 2015
DURHAM, N.H. —
It was a gorgeous night for a groundbreaking. More importantly, as president Mark Huddleston noted to a group of special friends of UNH on Friday night in the east end zone of Cowell Stadium, it was a beautiful event for a beautiful late May night.
http://www.unhwildcats.com/news/1970/6/16/6_16_1970_141.aspx?path=blog
Wed. May 20, 2015
Wed. May 20, 2015
Construction on the stadium has begun!
Tue. May 12, 2015
View a photo gallery of the latest renderings
Mon. December 15, 2014
Stadium Spectator Visualization: a virtual tour of the stadium design.
Wed. October 1, 2014
Marty Scarano, Director of Athletics at UNH, talks about the new stadium on
Inside Wildcat Country
.
Thurs. August 28, 2014
The fifth and final light pole at Cowell Stadium went up today!
Mon. August 25, 2014
Bleacher construction is well underway.
Tues. August 12, 2014
The second of five light poles was put into place, and No. 1 was turned on.
Thurs. July 31, 2014
The first light pole has been put into place.
Tues. July 29, 2014
Stadium lights have arrived – set to go up THIS week!
Wed. July 16, 2014
Prep work for lights is nearly complete – light poles are scheduled to arrive next week.
Mon. July 7, 2014
All five light post footings have been constructed.
Thurs. June 19, 2014
Light construction continues on the nearside of Cowell Stadiium.
Wed. June 11, 2014
The three pier footings for the lights on the side opposite the field house have been filled with concrete while the base structure for one on the home-side of the stadium has been placed. Trenches spanning the length of the three pier footings have been dug for electrical lines for the lights.
Thurs. June 5, 2014
The access road has been laid and concrete has been poured in preparation for light installation.
Tues. May 20, 2014
The access road behind the west side of the stadium has been laid out, and holes have been dug in preparation for light installation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1LMbR5G2pQ&feature=youtu.be
Fri. May 16, 2014
Cowell Stadium renovations continue with the wall in front of the south stands coming down.
Thurs. May 8, 2014
Renovations begin with the demolition of some seating.