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Speaker 1: It is seven away from a Christied Stadium, having a

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Speaker 1: bit of a pr push. At the moment, we've got

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Speaker 1: a year ago project remains on time and on budget.

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Speaker 1: We got twenty eight hundred people having worked on it.

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Speaker 1: The project director was Kent Summerfield. Who's Wether's Kent morning?

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Benaja. Have you been there from day one?

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Speaker 2: I've been there for about five years now, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: I joined about a year and a half before we

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Speaker 2: got on site.

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Speaker 1: How's it been as a journey?

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Speaker 2: Look really good. I think we've got a fantastic team,

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Speaker 2: an excellent contractor V six Watpeck out of Australia who

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Speaker 2: have some really invaluable experience in the space. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: they work really well with our client side team to

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Speaker 2: keep things moving along.

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Speaker 1: I've seen I assume most of us have seen the

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Speaker 1: pictures over the last twenty four hours or so. Does

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Speaker 1: it feel close or have we still got a lot

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Speaker 1: of work to do?

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Speaker 2: I think certainly for the public they can see it

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Speaker 2: physically taking shape, obviously the roof well and truly on

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Speaker 2: there and the clearing occurring brus As a project team,

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Speaker 2: we're conscious that there's still a lot of work to

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Speaker 2: do over the next twelve months, but it is very

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Speaker 2: much getting real. The turf being grown off site now,

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Speaker 2: so all of those final bits of the puzzle are

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Speaker 2: well and truly in planning. It's not occurring now, so

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Speaker 2: it's getting close, and yeah, it is very exciting in situ.

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Speaker 1: It seems to fit beautifully, doesn't it. It's like ideally

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Speaker 1: located and when you see it, it's like that that

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Speaker 1: makes sense, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: It does. Yeah, I think there's a lot of debate

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Speaker 2: initially around the positioning, but now it is going up

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Speaker 2: and people can see it and it becomes a real

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Speaker 2: landmark around the city because you can see it from

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Speaker 2: quite a distant way. Obviously it stands out on the skyline.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think it'll be a reference point for

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Speaker 2: every run in the future.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic. Well, go well with it and keep it to

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Speaker 1: time and budget. Kent Kent Summerfield, who's the project director

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