{"id":18168,"date":"2019-06-01T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=18168"},"modified":"2019-06-01T18:05:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T08:35:58","slug":"south-stand-roof-removed-at-memorial-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2019\/06\/01\/south-stand-roof-removed-at-memorial-drive","title":{"rendered":"South Stand roof removed at Memorial Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Memorial Drive Centre Court redevelopment reached a major milestone today, with the South Stand roof removed.<\/p>\n<p>Kennett Builders and McMahon Services Australia, the two South Australian-based companies involved in the original construction of the South Stand roof in 1998 joined forces again, this time to remove the roof.<\/p>\n<p>In a highly orchestrated operation, two cranes, one weighing 400 tonne and the other 250 tonne, were used to remove the 60 tonne roof in one piece\u00a0before placing it on the Centre Courts to be dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Memorial Drive Centre Court redevelopment, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2LO0AxS\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2LO0AxS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Memorial Drive Centre Court redevelopment - South Stand roof removal timelapse\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WfVdbCpUywI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Memorial Drive Centre Court redevelopment - South Stand roof removal\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQTLHWGbAxc?start=1634&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memorial Drive Centre Court redevelopment reached a major milestone today, with the South Stand roof removed. Kennett Builders and McMahon Services Australia, the two South Australian-based companies involved in the original construction of the South Stand roof in 1998 joined forces again, this time to remove the roof. In a highly orchestrated operation, two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":18170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}