NEW Everton FC Stadium at Bramley Moore Dock. A Full FlyAround!
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Here is a video at the new Everton FC Stadium where I have done a full flyaround to give you a good look at the entire site.
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Location Everton new stadium is excellent and the design beautiful.
I was at the Tottenham stadium yesterday in the south stand, the noise in the stadium was terrific, Bramley Moore will be likewise.both amazing venues
You're getting very good at this Nick aren't you, Hollywood will be calling at this rate 👍
Never really wanted to leave Goodison Park. But, our stadium being right at the Royal Blue Mersey is going to be amazing. Obviously Liverpool has always been known for its seafaring traditions, being at the Mersey just adds that little bit extra.
Watched these since the build started - this is your best so far
Looks like some extensive work being done on the central turrets on the dock wall. If done right they will be an amazing additional feature of the stadium site.
Once again thanks for a great update mate, you must have the most comprehensive library of this stadiums build from the initial dredging process to now.the finishing line is round the next bend,thanks for the work you've done 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Looking better every week and when you see design images of how it will look to what it is now we're bang on track every detail is looking the same. Love your videos keep up the great work
Great video as always, looks so good. Best wishes, Graeme from Portsmouth. Play Up Pompey.
Awesome
Great video Nick as always,,,love the way the water reflects in th
e windows,,😊 UTFT .just been catching up on the tv programme the gathering an it's nice to see in a couple of shots you can see the new stadium 😊
I think maybe I was getting a bit blasé with these videos, but that big chunk of barrel cladding on the south east corner nearly took my breath away, it looks amazing. Great job, yet again Nick, thanks! Perhaps we can get a statue of you on the plaza! 🙂
Another beauty mate. Have a great break Nick.
Beautiful video mate so happy for the everton fans and may this new stadium be blessed 🥲 with the job’s that it will offer and may it bring a new sense of belonging and success
Thank you MR DRONE
Nick - you never disappoint! COYB💙
This ground is just a jaw drop of an experience. The design has been top drawer since day 1 and it just gets better each time I come back for a shuftie,
Can't wait to see the ground with every seat in place (will there be name highlights on the seats like EFC or Everton picked out with white seating?
Can't wait for the 2025/26 season to be here and start playing knockout football at our new home.
Once again, Nick, thanks for a great video.
All seats will be blue (unless a sponsor is willing to pay the club a fortune for a white seats logo).
Great job👍🏼
Looking great fella, nice to see that large disabled section in the North Stand which Im assuming will be for visiting disabled fans. Most of my away games are as a carer for my mate who is a CP sufferer but yet part of the Britains Disabled strongman team so we will look forward to visiting with ITFC this and next seasons coming to see both. Great haircut fella see ya at Goodison
Looking great, Nick, I'm the we united fan who enjoys you're videos you'll love Northern Ireland if it's you're first trip.👍👌
Thanks for your vids 👍
great music
We will be in there before you know it. 👍. Cheers nick.
Brilliant again Nick . Wonder what that fella’s doing now ? You know the one with the cone early days 😆 Enjoy your holiday .
Sat on a rocking chair in the corner of a dark room, crying
You need to make a soundtrack playlist for all the music you've used on these videos😂👍
amazin how much of your barnet has gone since watching these videos over the years.
Is the stress of being an Everton fan 😂
Nick could you do a time lapse please ? 😂😉
@@stephenlinden-wyatt-ys8vy 😆.
@@JayEFC1969 😂
Can't miss the water channel now. Hope it will look similar to the canal section at the Pier Head
Speaking as a Red, I have to admit that this new stadium looks fantastic, and I can’t wait to go there for a game. My first ‘proper’ match was Everton v Chelsea (3-0) in January 1971, so I have a very soft spot for Goodison, but all things must change. Will the stands have names, or just be compass points?
The home end should be called ‘The Southall Stand’
In pub yesterday banter Newcastle/ trfc fan friendly banter. You've prop been in me locals. Think u done a pub walk round one point.
I’ve heard that the stadium has the ability to expand capacity. So if Everton are in the fortunate position like Man City, the stadium can expand.
That will be when safe standing is approved.
In the unlikely scenario that the government change the law to allow safe standing (1.5 fans per seat where they’ve installed rail seating), the capacity could be 62,000.
I presume the North and South stands have openings at the top to give a view of the river Mersey at the expense of more capacity. Although it looks nice, not sure this was a good trade off. I think I would have preferred a 60,000 seater stadium.
@@ojos_esmerelda The north and south stands are at the limits of the land boundary the club have. West and east stands had to be reduced in height due to the heritage status of the docks, unfortunately
Ce stade est un petit bijou. Et la localisation avec le port, la mer…juste sublime.
Looks great, hope it doesn't sink
Finished before Anfield road stand
Fantastic work as always watched all your updates on the new stadium and was wondering if there are any plans for artwork or posters for the 2 walls either side of the steps looking out towards the river that you know of??
No plans for artwork. They’ll soon be adding brick cladding to those wing walls.
👍👍
Can I just politely say that not all of us who watch Nick's videos are local, or even Everton fans. I'm just a keen observer - so if any pompous know-alls see fit to show the world how more knowledgeable they are about the stadium than I am I'm gonna have a right go back at them. Got that David?
You have as much right as anyone has to voice your opinion.
You don't have to be a local, nor an expert on either the club, or the stadium construction.
In fact, I would rather hear from interested observers worldwide.
David seems to know everything, and is seldom even queried, but I find his input somewhat overbearing.
You are not alone sir.
@@pleasantville4529 thanks for that. I was wondering if anyone else felt the same way!
Alan, I'm very aware that my intentions of keeping everyone as well informed as possible is not to everyone's taste but it seems to be appreciated by the majority. In the black and white of text it won't always be possible to convey the right tone nor in such a way that it will always be seen in a positive light. I get that and very occasionally someone has told me where their line in the sand lies, which is absolutely fine and justified.
It's part of the reason for rejecting invitations to appear on videos or setting up my own channel. I don't think it would be warranted or received well. You have interpreted my original statement of surprise as being some sort of attack on you, despite my trying to point out it was not that but just a genuine surprising question. Despite my restating that and then giving you a full answer to the question, you have now done what I would never do, which is to out in public your opinion and assessment of me, my supposed fabricated intentions or loathsome character. That's quite some leap.
However, for the record, I can assure you that I never set out to do anything else other than to search for all the information for my own benefit, to get the answers to my own questions. Having done so it was clear there was a huge vacuum between what I had learned and what others knew, so I took it upon myself to fill the gap for THEIR benefit. It has never been about some construed 'ego trip' that is implied.
If the club had made the information more accessible and set up a PR team to keep people informed and to answer all questions none of my input would have been needed and I'd have lived a quieter life. But once you start on a road, you kind of have to keep on it and it doesn't work to half-cook a task.
Again, for the record, I have absolutely no problem at all in anyone challenging any fact or opinion and indeed welcome any debate or discussion. I know I have not always got everything right, for whatever reason. No one is perfect and I know that very much includes me. But the difference is that I always review any shortfall and seek to improve on it.
I know the people that know me well do not see me in the same light as you have seen fit to shout out about me publicly, without even addressing your opinions to me directly in the previous chain of communication between us.
For both our benefits, I will stay clear of answering any of your comments or questions in future, so that there can be no further grounds for misinterpretation or miscommunication.
I wish you well and that you enjoy your impending visit to Liverpool.
@@pleasantville4529 I am sorry that you feel my input rubs you up the wrong way. For the record, I do NOT know everything, even if it's more than most who comment on these channels, due to comprehensive research and an element of knowledge and experience. I am aware that I have been wrong on occasion, which I have admitted to openly, which is not what you insinuate. Furthermore, I welcome being questioned or challenged as it makes sure that I check all the details. My intentions have always been solely to inform in the light of an EFC/'LoR vacuum.
I suspect that I shall not change your opinion so for both our benefits I shall remove any future scope for your feeling this way by not responding to any of your comments. I wish you all the best.
Alan, as stated previously, I always review myself to see how I can improve. I have decided on what I could have done better but I do feel slighted at the same time and I'd merely ask you to reflect on matters too. So, here is the analogy of the situation.
A Visual Arts Teacher (VAT) is called on to teach Maths because there are no Maths Teachers available. The Teacher has told everyone he can't do Maths and has no ability or interest in the subject but he knows that there are some good-natured people, with public spirit and generosity, that are willing to volunteer to help some pupils with special one-on-one support. One of these volunteers, who through the nature of her past career and her self-employed business has moments where she has time to deliver a talk for the whole class but, most often, just one-on-one support. She does so merely because she wants to help pupils understand Maths and gives up this time and dedication, for free and freely, not as some sort of weird self-serving practice.
So, one day this one volunteer, who supports EVERY Maths lesson that the VAT holds, hears a pupil say, "I keep asking what 2+2 is but no one ever answers me!". The volunteer supporter hears this and initially expresses complete surprise that a) this third-year pupil should need to ask the question and b) that no other fellow-pupil, any teacher or adult has given them a straightforward answer especially if the pupil maintains that he has asked the question incessantly in every class, even ignoring the fact that the pupil could get the answer from any Maths Book. Even more so, seeing as how this volunteer listens to every question asked in the lesson, she is astonished as to how this has by-passed her. The volunteer may not have phrased the immediate response in a way that the pupil would accept as genuine surprise and unfortunately the pupil immediately takes offence but she does tell him that the answer is 4. The pupil seems less than enthusiastic about the answer and seems more bothered by the phrasing and the use of five words by the volunteer which was intended to make it clear that at no point was the volunteer thinking negatively about the pupil {such as a) the pupil was stupid b) wrong to ask the question c) a liar or any plausible cause} but that she was astonished that he didn't already know the answer after 3 years and with so many willing volunteers, teachers, fellow-pupils and adults available at his side. The volunteer genuinely couldn't understand how such apparent repeated questioning had gone unnoticed by anyone, accepting there was absolutely no grounds to doubt the claim.
The pupil turned on the volunteer, with the answer to the question becoming an after-thought. So the volunteer explained again that she regretted the phraseology of the 5 words as although it was intended to dilute any feeling of attack on the pupil but to stress the surprise of the volunteer at the situation and then offered a fuller explanation of WHY 2+2 = 4, not just state '4'. This is because the volunteer considers that teaching a man how to fish is better than giving the man a fish. The volunteer doesn't know how this pupil will react to that any more than how any pupil will react. All the volunteer knows that the vast majority of the pupils ARE grateful for the help, so it would be reasonable to assume that delivering a full answer is likely to be acceptable. Clearly it was not so on this occasion.
Instead of being grateful for a full answer the pupil decides that the volunteer's fuller explanation is grounds for then doing the following:
Rather than address the situation with the volunteer, the pupil then goes to the School Public Noticeboard and posts a message for everyone to see that the pupil thinks that the volunteer is some pompous, up-themselves, vain-glorious person, seeking for affirmation, to denigrate the volunteer and never for a moment considering if that is the right moral thing to do to someone seeking only to help. nor whether the volunteer's motive was to teach him 'how to fish'.
What is done is done and for my part I regret my opening phraseology in the very first response I made as it caused the opposite effect of my intention. I have no qualms at offering an apology for that but I can only assure you that I am not what you make of me. I seek only to help out others. I'd invite you to self-reflect/debrief yourself too.
Once again, all the very best.
What's the 2nd music track?
Nice video Nick. It's a shame they are filling the west side back in with water as it would have been a good space for the public but I'm sure will look amazing with water there too.
Not the club’s decision, they have to create the water channel as part of the planning permission
Stadium is excellent. Just need a new owner and improve the team and sky's are blue
See the piano tune where have I heard it before ? who's the artist ? please
The canal link restoration is coming along a fair bit since I last saw it, that's going to really set it off when it's completed.
They were never going to get the stadium finished by August
The Titanic Hotel! Who on earth thought that was a good idea? I can see the reviews on Trip Advisor: 'I stayed at the Titanic hotel and it was a complete disaster. On arrival I immediately got a sinking feeling....etc'
Every time I’ve been there, the bar staff are rearranging the deck chairs…The iceberg lettuce in their BLT is very tasty 👌🏻
@@DuncTheBlue1878 Only the tip of the iceberg though. Anymore and you start to get that sinking feeling.
For me its 1.25 playback 😅
Whereabouts in Northern Ireland are you going nick ? That's where I am , I work for a tour company if you r coming for a little tour
Hi there, we’re going to Enniskillen this time 👍🏻
@misterdroneuk no worries it's nice down that way mate , I'm in belfast myself . I work for a company that does tours of the Giants Causeway , game of thrones etc etc . Have u ever done any tours here ?
@@katieandjorgia I’ve been to Giants Causeway and some Game of Thrones locations but not done any tours
Hey, do you know if the Everton crest will be on any side of the stadium?
Not clear from the plans - I suspect that due to the 'heritage' nature of the site they were careful not to overdo the branding at that stage. I reckon there will be something on the glass of the club shop in the east stand, but massive crests attached to the brick cladding, barrel cladding or south stand/north stand glazing won't happen. Just a guess though.
Nope. Due to the heritage status of the docks, the club’s badge and ‘Everton’ sign were removed from the initial plans. There will be blue EFC banners in the main fan zone plaza and under the north and south stands though.
Will: as the others have stated, there will be less roofline, in-your-face EFC branding than a large number of people expect or would like. There are limited, allocated areas for branding and the only ones that will appear on the barrel-cladding (mostly at the SE and SW corner) will be decided AFTER a naming rights deal has been contracted.
That's a bit better but you're still too close in much of the time. Cant you start with an entire circle of the stadium then focus closer in once we've got our barings?
Hi nick the north east lower where there is no seats is that the away end? Will that have rail seating?
Robert: yes and yes.
@davidbadcock2225 thanks mate 👍
What's the name of the song at the beginning please?
Evergreen by Morgan Kibby
@@DuncTheBlue1878 Thanks 👍
Mister drone I have to deliver into the ground pitch side if you want to come in with me then leave a message I’m from stoke and I’m being serious
Hi Chris, can you email me please
@@misterdroneuk My reply got deleted? You're no fun anymore 🙃
@@06skippy06 what reply? I havnt deleted anything mate. I think UA-cam sometimes does it quite randomly
@@misterdroneuk Possibly UA-cam, Nick. I replied that I was Mr Drone and yes I'd like to go in the stadium. They obviously can't take a joke
Still dont like the effect of black strips between "brick" panels
I'm not sure about that one either mate.
It just looks so random.
Mate, there's really not a lot of visible progress. I would cut back to monthly videos now.
There is plenty going on, perhaps you need to watch monthly 🙂
🤔 They’re excavating the water channel, finishing the east stand roof, paving the east fan zone plaza, installing the rail seating, preparing the pitch, and completing the barrel cladding on the east and west sides.
@@DuncTheBlue1878 yeah not much is it? 😂
@@stephenlinden-wyatt-ys8vy 😆
Looking good, but will never be better than Tynecastle.
Tottenham new ground is far better then this this one is not bad but Tottenhams is better
Completely different stadiums. I really like Spurs, but this has more character for me.
Am I the only person in the world to think it is an ugly Stadium?
Yes, you are
You're allowed an opinion, although I wouldn't expect your opinion to be overly popular if I'm honest.
Did you get my email.
No I didn’t
I might be there this week
Yet more progress, looking good 👍 looking forward to completion of the barrel cladding and roof 👍
Thanks Nick, bad head or not it was a good fly around update and already looking forward to the next one 👍
Thanks Nick, great video as always. Lets hope the ownership issues can be sorted soon, we need an owner with deep pockets to raise our sleeping giant.👏👍
Peter, indeed. IMHO an owner needs to have liquid assets of about 10 times the value of a football club. It has to be fringe to the portfolio, not core, as football ownership is more vanity project than mainstream business. It's a precarious, speculative business. IF, and it's a big IF, EFC is to be valued at about £1bn because of the stadium being at about 0.75bn (excluding any debit/credit for loans etc.), that means only owners of about £10bn liquid assets would be suitable. People or businesses that would be interested with those kind of assets are as rare as hen-teeth.
Weve got to sought this ownership issue out or we might find ourselves in another relegation dogfight that we may not be able to get out of this time, we cant afford to keep losing our best players otherwise its another uphill struggle, its a bit sad when you have the likes of Newcastle a team that wins frig all coming in for your best players.
I agree but the promoted clubs next season will perform better than Luton, Burnley and Sheff Utd. We’re likely to receive a points deduction because we have another committee hearing later in the summer. If we have to sell Branthwaite by the end of June PSR deadline and don’t replace him, we’ll be in a 4th consecutive relegation battle. Hopefully, 777 fail to meet this Friday’s deadline and decent owners can be found.
Steve: I agree but here's an additional thought. IMHO an owner needs to have liquid assets of about 10 times the value of a football club. It has to be fringe to the portfolio, not core, as football ownership is more vanity project than mainstream business. It's a precarious, speculative business. IF, and it's a big IF, EFC is to be valued at about £1bn because of the stadium being at about 0.75bn (excluding any debit/credit for loans etc.), that means only owners of about £10bn liquid assets would be suitable. People or businesses that would be interested with those kind of assets are as rare as hen-teeth.
@@davidbadcock2225 we are doomed mate, we will get relegated next season, the good players won't want to hang around with this much uncertainty going on, we'll end up like another Leeds utd if they don't get there act together.
@@steveheckle8847 Steve, I respect your right to be gloomy and to voice it but I've not gone over that cliff. I think we're at the nadir and it will get resolved this next year, whether with points deductions or not. I have a lot of faith in the core of KT and SD and their teams behind them. It may not be pretty or sexy for a while but I have more faith in that from the 2025/2026 season onwards as BMD goes full throttle. Even IF a few valuable players go, it's not impossible to replace them with hungry young prospects suited to SD's vision. Many clubs have succeeded in doing that, with BHA being an extreme but shining light. EFC will be a magnet for those wanting to prove themselves, just not those who might be expecting to play for a CL team next year.
Nick once again a fantastic fly around. What would be interesting if you could find out what would be a first for Lang O’Rourke on this project I.e would it be their first building / stadium/ arena on sand. There must be quite a few firsts would be good facts to find out.
Brilliant as always - I love the second piece of music too, it really suits the film footage! 👊💙
It’s going to be great but the prem will miss Goodson .. I think that just leaves VPark
Right I’m going to a wedding, check got the invite check, got the present check, staying over check, got the pjs check the toothpaste brush change of clothing etc check 🤔
Don’t forget the drone 😂🙏
Class as always 👍🙏
Dave: 😆. you forgot a few list items. Make sure the venue is near to the target, check, get a room overlooking the target, check.
Wow Everton looks amazing! Celtic fan 🍀
Hi Nick. As to your previous video. The South Stand roof is longer than the North. It's obviously to accommodate the solar panels. Are the black dots on the finished roof sections anchor points for harnesses?? And it will be interesting to see how they will be finishing the barrel cladding on the West Stand roof due to the finished pathing.
There are anchor points on the roof and I think they are for a cable system, whereby the worker clips their fall-arrest/restraint harness on to a fixed cable, enabling them to walk about with less restriction than would be the case if simply being attached to a single point.
The South Stand roof is far larger than the North Stand roof, because it is a bigger Stand, with far more seats.
The anchor points may also be to tension the roof sections, stop them separating as they settle.
Andrew: it's the other way around. The South Stand roof is larger due to the design of a the intended deep, steep Home Stand. The Solar array is an ancillary afterthought. In the original designs the Solar Array was going to be on the West Quay.
Beauty by the river.
Great video Nick.
Watching your fab fly around for the upmteenth time and suddenly thought, OMG, she looks like Battlestar Galactica!
Great video, fantastic music, what was it?
Evergreen by Morgan Kibby
@@DuncTheBlue1878thank you
Top video as ever Nick have a good time in Ireland
Looking like they said it would. Will it just be called Everton Stadium? Looking forward to Test games.
‘The Everton Stadium’ until the club can find a sponsor (likely to be a long wait though - Spurs and West Ham still can’t find a sponsor for their stadiums).
Whats the purpose of the cutting thats been built on the riverside of the stadium? It looks almost as if its a tunnel going to go under the ground?
That's the beginnings of what will be a water channel on the west side of the stadium linking Nelson Dock to the south with Sandon Half Tide Dock to the north, although it won't be navigable.
Dave - unsure if you mean the proposed water channel (connecting Sandon Dock to Nelson Dock) that they’ve just started excavating or the tunnel under the west plaza terrace. The latter will provide shelter from the wind and rain for the fans queuing at the west stand turnstiles.
@@DuncTheBlue1878 it's the new excavation I was unsure about dunc, thanks for the reply.
They're excavating along the Dock wall, to add cement at the base, in order to stop water from passing under the foundations of the stadium. That middle section will be fully excavated before the end of the year.
Dave: Dunc and Darren are correct. As an extra observation, you can see that in the digging process, LoR have created a ramp from the North to the bottom at the South. It's unclear at this point in time IF the patch of cream-ish base at that southern end is previously poured concrete or the underlying sandstone on which they will start laying concrete and the water-proofing materials. I presume they will keep altering the ramp as they complete each bottom area, initially along the Seacant Wall under the Lower Promenade.
I hope there’s a way of getting to the ground by boat/ferry crossing the Mersey would be epic.
Sadly not. Too expensive to build a port. Shame really, would be great to catch a ferry to the game.
Hey Nick from Spurs fan in Thailand, well done for doing this when under the weather. Please answer this: are they gonna fill in those vertical gaps in the cladding (the barcodes). Nobidy ever answers this for me!
If you mean - are they going to fill in the black cladding with something else - then no, they won’t. You can see the final plans if you search ‘stadium db final Everton design’ and scroll all the way down to the high definition images (‘renderings’) from August 2020
@@DuncTheBlue1878 Wow I can't believe that but I'll do that search and thanks for the heads up
Alan: I'm not having a pop but I'm truly surprised anyone could think that the black paneling was not intentional and permanent, especially if you've been watching proceedings over the last 3 years. I'm even more surprised that the number of design vigilante's, including me, would ever have let your supposed question go unnoticed. I read every comment. I HAVE had to answer that question fewer times than I have digits on one hand and the last time was probably more than a year ago. YT must have selected you as being a candidate for occlusion. Have a great day.
@@davidbadcock2225 David: I'm not having a pop but I'm truly surprised anyone could think that my question about the black paneling needed an answer like yours. fyi, my Everton mate told me he was sure they WERE going to be filled in, so my question was quite reasonable. Have a nice day
ps - I didn't like your reply but I do like your football team, congrats on the great escape. They should give Dyche the Manager of the Year award :)
@@alansimon1354 😆. I DO like your reply. Asking an innocent question or a question in ignorance is not a surprise and to be supported. What I WAS genuinely surprised about is how you've managed to evade any images or, as stated before, the design vigilante's like myself (Dunc is another, incidentally). So, it wasn't a 'pop' but an expression of genuine surprise. Clearly my statement was interpreted as an insult, even with the premise of stating that it wasn't a pop at you but a statement of genuine surprise. So, here is a longer reply that might fill you in on considerations that somehow you have evaded.
1) Dan Meis, the architect, spent quite a lot of time in Liverpool, over from the USA, in order to get a feel of the surrounds and took it upon himself that his design would reflect the buildings already present, especially with regard to the docks and the predominant brick architecture.
2) This would also allow an easier time with the Heritage Stakeholders who'd have to be assuaged in their concerns about a futuristic stadium sitting among the Heritage Docks.
3) If you take a walk around the Albert Docks, take a look at the Old Tobacco Warehouse or Titanic Hotel, the design is generally of brick with windows in regular vertical and horizontal lines. However a stadium with needs for different, irregular locations for staircases, and such like, mean that a strict, uniform position for windows is nigh impossible. Random widows would destroy the overall effect.
4) The vertically-interspatial effect of the brick facades and black panels makes the stadium look taller when one is standing near it. the stadium was restricted on overall height and the planners demanded that the roof be made 'squatter'
5) A full unbroken brick facade would be ugly and unappealing so providing contrast and visual breaks is a necessity. So, without having random or dummy windows, which would be expensive, especially if they didn't have people lingering behind, the concept of using vertical black panels within the facade was developed, which served several purposes, such as the following:
A) The black panels are a lot cheaper than the brick facades themselves and they don't require the infrastructure that windows do.
B) They are perforated to different %'s, depending on location. They are solid where they lie in front of internal walls (which are not as uniform or regular as the old dock warehouses).
C) They are perforated in front of staircases or corridors. This means they become both Wind-mitigation baffles and obscure windows as the viewer inside will be able to get an opaque vision of the external panorama. It will also mean that the staircases and corridors are permanently ventilated without the use of energy. One of the priorities of the stadium is to be as green and sustainable as possible, of course.
In the original designs the perforations of the black panels were part of the Leitch design in the brickwork, to help emphasise the Leitch pattern. The planners didn't appreciate the extra emphasis and demanded the perforations were' pulled back', made smaller and standard patterns rather than specifically following the Leitch patterns where appropriate.
I hope that you now feel up to speed with why the black panels are a necessary part of the permanent design?
They said that there is the "potential for the capacity to be increased by 10,000". Does that mean they could add another ten thousand seats with a further future phase of construction, or that any regulation changes could mean that standing would allow 10 thousand more in the current setup?
Regulations would have to change on safe standing. It wouldn't be an actual expansion of the stadium.
Yeah, law change required to allow safe standing (1.5 fans per seat where there’s rail seating). Would increase capacity to 62,000
Thanks Nick , once the roof has finished and seats installed will the floodlights be installed. Be interesting to see that?
Kevin: the floodlights were installed in autumn 2023. Unless the drones flew below the roofline above the pitch area, you wouldn't see them. They are located all along the pitch-side edge of the roof-trusses walkway. Let me know if you want details of how to see them in a video.
@@davidbadcock2225 Thanks David. I had completely forgot about that. I'm getting old 😀. Keep up the good work
Stunning m8
Good video
I wish they’d remove all of those unsightly nettings and fences. You’d imagine that they’d be down by now given the South stand roof is nearly complete. Some of the netting on all stands to protect people from falling still exists and it just looks a mess.
Come on Lee, its literally a building site. It'll look awesome when it's finished, we can forgive some netting while its built cant we?
They haven’t finished the south stand roof. Solar panels still to be added.
It’s a building site😂
There's people still working up there 🤷♂️