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New Everton Stadium

I dont know how ANY Evertonian cannot be excited by this.
Just the thought of walking up to it has the hairs on my neck bristling, as it does every time I wind my way through the streets to GP.

Watching it come together bit by bit has been great so far and is only gonna get better
I can completely get the sentiments, I’ve thought about it myself,
I’ll have done 50 years at GP when BMD opens and to a lot of people it may feel like watching a new club, as GP has been a constant in their lives, the change of people you’ll be sitting next to, price increases etc, might be too much for some,and doesn’t make them the bad guys, should they decide against it,
My current thoughts are I’ll give it a go and see what happens, purely down to the location and the stadium itself,
I most definitely wouldn’t of gone to a new ground elsewhere (Kirkby etc).
 
That's sad.
I hope they have a change of heart.

I can understand the attachment to the Old Lady, been going close to 50yrs myself and a bit of me will die inside when she goes, but us blues need a new home, and the one we're getting is going to be stunning, lighting up one of the most iconic skylines anywhere in the world.
I do hope they change their minds.

UTFT
Probably said it on the way to the car after watching us get smashed 5-2 by Watford, can’t blame them if so.
 

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Cracking pic this.

Hope they keep the name lit up like that or a large crest on each side ( like they have at the pit )
Not a fan of them cheap looking flags on the walk up.
 
I dont know how ANY Evertonian cannot be excited by this.
Just the thought of walking up to it has the hairs on my neck bristling, as it does every time I wind my way through the streets to GP.

Watching it come together bit by bit has been great so far and is only gonna get better
Can't wait until I finally can get over to Liverpool to see Goodison again. Defo want another Goodison tour and have a walk from the city centre to Bramley Moore. It's been far to long since my last visit. Stupid covid.

Will be nice to see with my own eyes if the stadium really fits on that dock.
 

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF BRAMLEY-MOORE DOCK​

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As the initial overground structure emerges from newly-laid foundations at Bramley-Moore Dock, focus turns to the framework of Everton’s iconic new home.
Work on all four corners of the 52,888-seater stadium will soon offer a first real glimpse of the scale of the project.
And as construction enters a new phase, years of advance planning on a pioneering ‘digital build’ is about to come to fruition.
Everton’s stadium is being pieced together using a technologically advanced method known as Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA).
Work has begun to manufacture the 11,000 pre-cast concrete components which will form the new stadium’s superstructure and internal bowl. Many of these will come from Laing O’Rourke’s specialist factory in Nottinghamshire, and be transported to site for just-in-time assembly.
By adopting modern methods of construction based on off-site manufacturing, and meticulously planning production schedules in advance, Laing O’Rourke’s technical team has been able to use less cement in the concrete mixes for these components and so reduce the overall embodied carbon in the stadium build.
These manufactured building blocks will arrive on site in a pre-determined order and effectively be slotted together utilising 3D modelling, in turn forming the floors, walls, and supporting pillars in preparation for the steel skeleton and brickwork skin.
Ben Townsley, Senior Project Manager at Laing O’Rourke, explained: “In many ways, it’s a huge complex assembly, rather than traditional construction.
“Concrete is something that has been around since Roman times, but the way in which we are manufacturing it, is pioneering.
“In this case, thousands of the building’s components are being precast in our manufacturing facility, which we’ve had now for over 10 years.
“We take the building design, and manufacture bespoke products. Traditionally, we wouldn’t complete the design for the concrete frame until maybe the end of this year, but what we’ve had to do in this instance is design the whole frame much earlier in the process – we actually did it last year.
“The precast concrete elements are all manufactured off-site, before being assembled on-site. This process takes a lot of the potential quality and safety issues away from the work face and into a more controlled environment which minimises waste and improves sustainability.
“Also, rather than needing heavy labour on site to set up the temporary works for pouring the concrete; when you take it away and put it on an assembly line, you are mostly left with on site is lifting and crane work to install the units.”
The precast units have also been designed to speed up the subsequent installation of wiring and plumbing, by planning them into the 3D modelling.
Ben, who revealed the DfMA process will be on average 30% quicker than traditional construction, added: “It takes a huge amount of up-front design resource to coordinate this.
“The services are not actually cast into the concrete elements, but the voids need to be cast into the structure so the wiring and plumbing can be installed.
“That sounds simple, but it’s an incredibly complex process. You can imagine the number of different pipes and wires within a building of this magnitude and all that has been designed using 3D modelling.
“That 3D environment is a big part of the pioneering aspect. We call this the ‘digital build’, where our engineers, who would normally be working on-site in the mud, have been trained up-front in 3D modelling.
“They’ve taken structural engineers’ designs and re-drawn the whole building in a 3D environment.
“Using this method establishes all the clashes, complications and problems you might normally encounter before you get to site, which allows them to be resolved before you even start.
“We’ve used the method before on other structures, but this is the first time we have done it to this scale, and that means we can give the people on site – the joiners and steelfixers who are actually building the stadium – 3D models on tablets, rather than a piece of paper.
“When you transition into this 3D world it is a huge leap that we’ve taken to modernise the industry, but I am completely convinced this is the right way to go.
“We have to become more efficient, increase productivity and provide certainty for our clients, and this is the way to do it.”

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This is gonna be a giant Lego set.

Groundbreaking engineering on a build this size & scale.
Another Everton 1st !

Fascinating stuff.
 
I dont know how ANY Evertonian cannot be excited by this.
Just the thought of walking up to it has the hairs on my neck bristling, as it does every time I wind my way through the streets to GP.

Watching it come together bit by bit has been great so far and is only gonna get better

Exactly, 60 years of GP for me, and I hope to still be around to get my loge seats in BMD……the kids will love it……
 

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