Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg - fibreC

The Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg is the largest and most spectacular stadium construction site in the world. The icon of the FIFA World Cup 2010 will host the opening and the final matches.
The innovative Austrian company Rieder Smart Elements (which has a factory in Kolbermoor, Germany) made a significant contribution to the construction of the most important world cup stadium in Africa by realising the glassfibre reinforced concrete facade in native African colours.
Almost one year before the kick-off to the 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa, the last fibreC panels of the envelope of the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg have been mounted. On Monday 27 July 2009, the Rieder team in South Africa brought the installation to a successful end. A team of 150 local workers are fine-tuning the glassfibre reinforced concrete facade to ensure that it will shine in the eyes of billions of viewers, as they watch the opening match of the world championship on TV screens across the globe.
Rieder secured the commission from the architects of the soccer stadium, not only for its economic and holistic strategy, but also with its creative vision and sustainable product. - fibreC. In addition to its technical and aesthetic solution, the application of fibreC to the facade surpassed other international bidders with its eco-friendly qualities.
fibreC is a concrete panel, reinforced with glassfibres, which enables the efficient construction of aesthetically impressive and sustainable building projects.

[@Karabo1903]

Me watching this 13 years later 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[@Footballchallenge_africa]

Thank you to all the incredible builders, engineers and architects that came together to build this stadium. What a facility!

[@lungaselai6716]

i'm loving this. civil engineering has become the driving force behind prosperity!!

[@ObeyTheVuvuzela]

Best stadium I've been to.
Much better than Wembley.
And so much cheaper to build.

[@optoms1178]

HALALA mzantsi! This team did such an incredible job. Soccer City is beautiful 🇿🇦

[@auntmelisa8689]

Yesss love my Europeans building that stadium in Africa ❤️

[@Footballchallenge_africa]

What a majestic stadium 🇿🇦

[@henry.pham.vietnam6080]

Thank you for your information. Have a nice day for you.

[@kabelokaone3302]

I am south africa 🇿🇦 😎

[@safaaaliraqi4364]

is very nice and the bestvin the world.

[@MATIASRODRIGUEZ-ir4xg]

Beautiful

[@nicholasanjiri4782]

Iconic

[@schucokozijnen1816]

They watch the opening match of the world championship on TV screens

[@Tehui1974]

I can't wait to see my All Black team take on the Springboks there

[@spottube6459]

11 years wow

[@Tehui1974]

@@spottube6459 I don't remember writing this. After watching almost every AB game over a 30 year period, sadly I stopped watching rugby about 5 years ago. The card system has effectively killed the game and turned it into a lottery.

[@AjaySalmon]

​@@Tehui1974 Please forgive my ignorance, what is the card system?

[@Tehui1974]

@@AjaySalmon I was referring to seeing a growing number players receive yellow and red cards for innocuous fouls. I want to see sport, not a court room drama.

[@AjaySalmon]

@@Tehui1974 Oh I see, thanks for your clarification. I agree, cards need to be rarer and utilized better.

[@martrixxx8]

@MusicGeneration2008 what houses did they break down? Are you saying that people lived inside or adjacent to the previous stadium? You do know that Soccer City was built exactly where FNB stadium stood right?

[@ronalcastro4205]

beatifull

[@deepruk]

@MusicGeneration2008 It looks like a desert because it is built on an old mine dump.

[@DrummerElite13]

Metallica just performed at this stadium today!

[@fabricemwandopaul1740]

Need this team please

[@lorrianemodiega3965]

Oh this is the best stadium in my life I love it ❣️ but there's this man who really change my life and my family also Mr Andrew Mitchem this man marks me and my family to be come somebody in life he really change my life for good this man is a God set to me and my family if you are interested ask me how

[@vladivostok7417]

White elephant stadium

[@fabricemwandopaul1740]

I need you in my country

[@MusicGeneration2008]

@beatdathaguy98 i can tell you why it looks like a desert. They banished the people who lived there and broke down their homes..

[@osas.4098]

No there was a stadium there already.

[@alcheapogrande]

As the person that shot 80% of the clip above, I can tell you nobody lived there - unless you refer to the 80 when they build FNB stadium - which was submerged into the new stadium. Have a look: vimeo.com/305201780

[@nvv8888]

like stadium in Warsaw

[@gogreenplumbers9008]

interesting

[@BarbaraYoung-n5q]

Young Melissa Johnson Ruth Hernandez Charles

[@alwiaja7693]

Nonok mukung di Cepot enakk

[@sa8ra6]

I felt sick since the woman at :55 talked ??

[@ekweetnie123]

0:55

[@willnewby4825]

Love the stadium, hate the name.

[@JoseMoreno-bb1bb]

William Newby well it's now called first national bank stadium

[@ogone1465]

@@JoseMoreno-bb1bb it always had two names

[@keanureeves6786]

So sad is abandoned now

[@ogone1465]

Abandoned by who 🤔

[@DerRealeHater]

Die WM ist schlecht! Muhahaha

[@Foufouvideos]

Why is WM in Johannesburg??? And this stadium is very ugly!
When i am FIFA, i will get the next WM in Bagdad!!! -_-

[@ekweetnie123]

you are a close minded American that understands nothing about african and south african culture

[@lorrianemodiega3965]

Oh this is the best stadium in my life I love it ❣️ but there's this man who really change my life and my family also Mr Andrew Mitchem this man marks me and my family to be come somebody in life he really change my life for good this man is a God set to me and my family if you are interested ask me how