New Everton Stadium

[allen]

Potentially daft question here... why is that insulation necessary? It's certainly not to keep the warmth in for the fans sat below... is it as basic as keeping pipes from freezing over winter?

I’ve been wondering about this.

Interestingly, it looks exactly like the acoustic insulation I bought for the internal walls and downstairs ceiling in our extension a few months back. Same brand and colour.

But saying that, it has thermal properties, too.

It may well be for thermal regulation. To stop excessive expansion and contraction of the main roof structure.

It won’t be to keep fans cosy, because of the pitch-sized hole in the middle. But it might help keep heat off in the summer I guess.

It also won’t be to keep sound in, as that acoustic insulation absorbs sound. Perhaps it’ll help absorb stadium vibrations from fans / noise too?

 

[allen]

It’s all to do with acoustics, basically to keep the atmosphere within the stadium rather than straight up in the sky.

You need reflective materials to keep sound in. This stuff is absorbent.

 

[vintage-toffees]

It suddenly dawned on me today for all the firsts we have done as a club ..
This stadium may be a unique last
I honestly think with how football is now run and the way finances now work in the game
This will be the last ground and project of this magnitude to be built in this country
What an absolutely wonderful building it will be and for us the club of firsts and innovations that we are the last to undertake this build !!

Coyb

 

[Titus Bramble]

You need reflective materials to keep sound in. This stuff is absorbent.

Yeah that was my thinking as well...

 

[cpoverview]

You need reflective materials to keep sound in. This stuff is absorbent.

Earlier layers were reflective in places, also some of the earlier layers are perforated in places which again was all to do with sound.
When the North Stand roof was first started i had someone message me who was working on it and they explained it all.
I will try and find the messages.

 

[ashwuk76]

Are they putting solar panels on the south stand?

 

[tommye]

I though you were Mr. Drone

I waaaaaaay more handsome

 

[ashwuk76]

I waaaaaaay more handsome

you wish

 

[Blueberry Muffin]

So is it just the eastern roof that needs the final touches? I'm excited to see the roof and barrel cladding finished. Hopefully things start to snap in to place at breakneck speed afterwards.

 

[Milkman]

So is it just the eastern roof that needs the final touches? I'm excited to see the roof and barrel cladding finished. Hopefully things start to snap in to place at breakneck speed afterwards.

This made my neck hurt

 

[cpoverview]

Are they putting solar panels on the south stand?

yes you can see all the framework for them

 

[Blueberry Muffin]

This made my neck hurt

It's why I always stretch before watching stadium updates

 

[The binman chronicles]

You need reflective materials to keep sound in. This stuff is absorbent.

As CP said they have the reflective layers too, but equally what you say is correct also. Just one layer and that would heat up pretty badly in the summer, so stops that transfer.

 

[Dr Baxter]

It suddenly dawned on me today for all the firsts we have done as a club ..
This stadium may be a unique last
I honestly think with how football is now run and the way finances now work in the game
This will be the last ground and project of this magnitude to be built in this country
What an absolutely wonderful building it will be and for us the club of firsts and innovations that we are the last to undertake this build !!

Coyb

Apologies if I have already asked this question (in my 60's and my memory is not what it used to be) but is there another example anywhere of a stadium which has been built on a former dock that has been filled in? I know a lot of stadiums are build on brownfield sites etc but a dock that has been filled in?

 

[Amw79]

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This just popped up on my photos app, and was taken 2 years ago to the day, from roughly the same spot as the above taken yesterday.