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1	Texas high school stadiums shaped by public funding and opinion Varney, Roy William 09 October 2014 (has links) Eighty-three Texas high school football stadiums have opened since 2008. Both pro stadiums and amateur stadiums have found their way into the ire of economists, who decry such expensive projects as lavish and foolhardy. Sociologists meanwhile point to ambition and pride as contributing to the growth of professional and amateur stadiums. / text High school football Stadium construction Community pride Sports funding Amateur stadiums
2	Texas high school stadiums shaped by public funding and opinion Varney, Roy William 09 October 2014 (has links) Eighty-three Texas high school football stadiums have opened since 2008. Both pro stadiums and amateur stadiums have found their way into the ire of economists, who decry such expensive projects as lavish and foolhardy. Sociologists meanwhile point to ambition and pride as contributing to the growth of professional and amateur stadiums. High school football Stadium construction Community pride Sports funding Amateur stadiums
3	Arenabygget, ris eller ros? : en hedonisk prisstudie av kommuninvånarnas värdering av den nya arenan. / Stadium construction, criticism or praise? : a hedonic price study of local residents evaluation of the new stadium. Engstedt, Andreas January 2015 (has links) This study is an examination of the stadium fever prevailing in Sweden. It is built stadiums in Sweden as never before. The high cost of these constructions end up in the end at the Swedish taxpayers. The study examines through the hedonic pricing of real estate how local residents value the new stadiums. The result indicates that local residents put a positive value in the costly and sumptuous buildings. The study includes 44 stadium constructions in 37 municipalities and is the first of its kind in Sweden. / Denna studie är en granskning av den arenafeber som råder i Sverige. Det byggs idrottsarenor i Sverige som aldrig förr. De stora kostnaderna för dessa byggen hamnar i slutändan hos de svenska skattebetalarna. Studien undersöker genom hedonisk prissättning av fastighetsmarknaden hur kommuninvånarna värderar de nya arenorna. Resultatet indikerar att kommuninvånarna lägger ett positivt värde i de kostsamma och praktfulla byggena. Studien omfattar 44 arenabyggen i 37 kommuner och är den första i sitt slag i Sverige. Hedonic pricing stadium construction real estate valuation local residents Sweden Hedonisk prissättning arenabygge fastighetsmarknad värdering kommuninvånare Sverige
4	Analysis of Construction Cost Variation of Construction Manager General Contractor (CM/GC) Project Mitra, John Paul, Shrestha, Joseph, Ross, Jeremy, Hong, Jinseok 10 April 2019 (has links) Cost overrun is prevalent in the construction industry. Usually, an owner sets a budget at the preliminary phase of a project which changes over time. Past studies are focused on analyzing the cost growth of design-bid-build projects during construction. Limited efforts have been made to analyze details of projects delivered with the Construction Manager General Contractor (CM/GC) method. This study tracks and analyzes the construction cost variation of a project from the conceptual phase to the design completion phase. The analysis is presented with a case study of a new stadium construction project. It identifies that the changes in the scope and design of the project due to the change in available budget were a major reason for variation in the cost estimates over time. Further, this study identifies a) trades with the highest variation in subcontractors’ bids, b) trades that were most overestimated, and c) trades that were most underestimated. The findings of this study is expected to aid owners, designers, and contractors of future projects in improving the preparation, planning, and estimating of future projects; reducing cost variation within trades; and optimizing the amount of contingency required to ensure the successful completion of similar projects. cost growth cost overrun estimate cost variation construction manager general constratcor stadium construction Construction Engineering and Management
5	The Ideology of Stadium Construction: A Historical Sociology Model of Power and Control Coombs, Donald L. 07 December 2015 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The Ideology of Stadium Construction seeks to define the application of community power in the process of building sports stadiums. Using data culled from a literature review, this project examines the recent construction of sports venues and the political, economic, and social ideas driving their proliferation. A three dimensional approach to applied power provides a theoretical tool to illustrate and analyze the blueprint of stadium construction. Taking a more broad view of the culture of business in the United States suggests the public funding of stadium construction arching towards Antonio Gramsci’s sense of hegemony. Beyond attempting to merely define the political process driving stadium construction as a significant social problem, this project introduces potential alternatives to the organizational method currently in place. Public Financing of Stadium Construction Community Power Sports and Social Control Sports Sociology Sports Growth Machine Sports and Social Cohesion Sports and Hegemony Sports and Eminent Domain Sports and Community Ownership Professional Sports as Public Utility Sports -- Sociological aspects Community power -- Research -- Analysis Hegemony -- Sociological aspects Sports -- Social aspects Sports -- Public relations Social control -- Research

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