New Everton Stadium

[windymiller]

Don't get me wrong, I have concerns too, but I just wonder if this has been in the works from day one of planning the stadium at Bramley Moore. If so it's fill me with much more hope than it being a late addition to an existing plan.

I'm sure it has been, it's likely that this was a condition of the complex funding model.

 

[mightymoyes]

looking forward to seeing the plans

 

[billytoffee]

Planning permission absolutely nailed on then!!

 

[hibbo'sclass]

177 x93 m is the area needed for a standard athletics track. Just let that sink in.

 

[RobSpurs]

"Our plan is to install a temporary track after the final home game of the 2021/22 season, which will then be removed before the 2022/23 season starts in the autumn."

Woah! Hampden was out of action for a year when they implemented a similar solution there. Is this really doable? I guess it's just a question of manpower. but still!

 

[bluerobert]

"Our plan is to install a temporary track after the final home game of the 2021/22 season, which will then be removed before the 2022/23 season starts in the autumn."

Woah! Hampden was out of action for a year when they implemented a similar solution there. Is this really doable? I guess it's just a question of manpower. but still!

It could be that the technology has moved on from then mate.

 

[roydo]

"Our plan is to install a temporary track after the final home game of the 2021/22 season, which will then be removed before the 2022/23 season starts in the autumn."

Woah! Hampden was out of action for a year when they implemented a similar solution there. Is this really doable? I guess it's just a question of manpower. but still!

I guess if the idea is in the original plan, then its just a question of how, rather than mucking about with an existing stadium.

 

[Baldynut]

Didn't someone post a YouTube clip on here of a stadium where the track was raised up so it covered the 1st tier of seats?

 

[peteblue]

"Our plan is to install a temporary track after the final home game of the 2021/22 season, which will then be removed before the 2022/23 season starts in the autumn."

Woah! Hampden was out of action for a year when they implemented a similar solution there. Is this really doable? I guess it's just a question of manpower. but still!

And it means our stadium is expected to be up and ready 4 years from now.....

 

[peteblue]

177 x93 m is the area needed for a standard athletics track. Just let that sink in.

It'll fit in fine......

 

[chazzle_dazzle]

Didn't someone post a YouTube clip on here of a stadium where the track was raised up so it covered the 1st tier of seats?

I've just been looking for that for like a sanity check it was possible.

 

[KevMirallas]

I don't see how any of this is even remotely negative.

The technology involved in modern architecture is incredible. We can have everything we want here, and we will. Everything we are being told is only confirming that.

 

[maccavennie]

It'll fit in fine......

lol

 

[rochdaleblue]

I don't see how any of this is even remotely negative.

The technology involved in modern architecture is incredible. We can have everything we want here, and we will. Everything we are being told is only confirming that.

I wonder if the stadium is going to be used as the main stadium for the CG whether we would get any financial support with regard to the building costs.

 

[Duncan Disordely]

Video of how they did Hamden Park in the linked page below

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...stilts-for-Commonwealth-Games-in-Glasgow.html

The stadium makeover involves construction of a platform made up of 1,200 base panels and supported by 6,000 steel stilts, on top of which the track and infield turf will be laid
Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill has praised the "fantastic" way Hampden Park is being transformed into the Commonwealth Games athletics stadium by building a track and infield on a temporary platform two metres above the normal pitch level.

Ennis-Hill, who will not be competing at the Glasgow Games because she is expecting her first child, joined Scottish 400 metres hurdler Eilidh Child at the stadium as organisers provided a glimpse of the innovative way the venue is being turned from the home of Scottish football into a world-class athletics arena.

The stadium makeover, which Games organisers have labelled the 'Glasgow solution', involves the construction of a platform made up of 1,200 base panels and supported by 6,000 steel stilts, on top of which the track and infield turf will be laid.

Similar technology was used to construct the equestrian arena on a temporary deck in Greenwich Park during the London Olympics but it is the first time an entire running track has been built on stilts.

Raising the height of the pitch level by two metres is necessary to gain the extra length and width needed to accommodate the track, which is due to be in place by the end of next month. The Games open on July 20.

"It looks fantastic," said Ennis-Hill, who is an ambassador for Glasgow 2014. "With the amount of work that's gone into raising the level of the stadium, it looks brilliant already."

During the Games, the stadium will seat 44,000 people before returning to its usual 52,000 capacity when the track is removed and it is handed back to Hampden Park authorities in November.