Southland Stadium Roof Collapse

Heavy snowfall has caused the roof of invercargill s stadium to collapse.

Southland stadium roof collapse.

Most of the roof over. The stadium has been repaired at significant cost funded predominantly by insurance proceeds but also by local councils and the community. The roof on stadium southland in invercargill collapsed under the weight of snow in 2010. 2 the cost of repairs is likely to run into millions of dollars 3 with events as far as two years in the future needing to be cancelled.

There were no injuries or loss of life. Local decorating homewares store wrens on yarrow street also suffered a roof collapse under the weight of snow. The stadium southland roof collapsed at around noon on 18 september 2010 following a heavy fall of snow in the area. The original stadium was completed in may 2000 but in september 2010 a heavy snowfall caused the main stadium roof to collapse causing substantial structural damage to the complex.

There were no injuries or loss of life. Heavy snowfall construction defects and design problems contributed to the collapse of the stadium southland roof on september 18 2010 a report has found. A replacement stadium opened in february 2014 with a capacity of 4019 and retractable seating. At about 11 25 am on 18 september 2010 the roof on the stadium collapsed following a heavy snowfall.

Today on 18th september 2010 a major dumping of snow arrived overnight causing stadium southland s roof to collapse and cave in. Robyn edie stuff fahy has few doubts that if he and the other three tennis coaches had stayed on for their planned hit up that day they would have been killed. Cranes and diggers have been brought in to clear debris so the situation can be assessed but millions of dollars of damage has been caused to the 2000 seat stadium southland. The only person in the.