The structural work on the installation of concrete terracing forming the main bowl of the new Everton Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock has now been completed the club have announced.
The final concrete terracing panel was installed in the east stand last week, 18 months after the first concrete terrace was positioned in August 2022.
The terrace units, averaging just under 9.5 tonnes in weight, have each been secured with a high-strength grout and then made weatherproof with a special sealant, requiring in total 33 km of mastic to make it watertight so that fitting out can be completed on the concourses beneath the upper stands.
Quoted in New Civil Engineeer, Laing O’Rourke project director Gareth Jacques explained: “Structurally, that is the stadium bowl complete. When you consider that alongside the terracing, the team have also done the structural steel and precast concrete in the four stands, it is a fantastic achievement.
“Because we use modern methods of construction and need to fix our design to go to fabrication early, the team worked really hard in the early stages of the project.
“The rate of progress we have achieved within the stadium meant that we were nearly 40% ready to go with precast components when we took possession of the site, so it’s been a great piece of work and a great product from our supply chain partner Banagher, in Ireland.”