Aloha stadium video board relocation complete

HONOLULU — The LED panels of the 75-foot wide Aloha Stadium video board have been installed at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex.

Relocating the 75-foot wide, 19-foot high video board is part of the second phase of the Ching Complex expansion that will increase the seating capacity from 9,350 to 15,000 seats — in time for the 2023 UH football season.

The video board was broken down into 64 panels for transport and delivered on June 15, with the installation beginning the following day.

The scoreboard is located on the Diamond Head/Les Murakami Stadium side of the complex. Underground utility infrastructure work has also been completed, and a steel structure and concrete columns were installed prior to the video board’s arrival.

The video board is expected to be operational by the end of July.

“Getting the agreement with Aloha Stadium to acquire their video board really allowed us more options and flexibility on how we redesigned the second phase of the grandstands,” UH Office of Project Delivery Manager Seth Siaki said. “We were able to increase the size of the ‘Ewa structure, increase the size of the Les Murakami side, as well as increase the corners along the mauka and makai sidelines to provide a better atmosphere for the football team.”

The video board installation is part of the $30-million Ching Complex expansion project, approved by the UH Board of Regents in August 2022.

The project will be completed in two phases. The seating expansion involves removing and replacing the grandstands in the ‘Ewa endzone, expanding existing seating in the Diamond Head endzone and adding seating that will wrap around the corners of the field where the current track is located.

The second phase is the construction of new track and soccer facilities on the lower campus practice fields scheduled to begin in August 2023 and be completed in fall 2024.

It includes excavation work to level the two existing practice fields; installing a retaining wall and drainage, irrigation, utility systems; and grandstand seating.