A brilliant new video has emerged showing the progress Everton are making on the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.
The Blues have now been hard at work at the waterfront site for over a year, having first broken ground in August 2021. Already the project has completed a huge transformation in the past 12 months on the way to a 52,888-seater stadium rising up, and that is set to continue.
Footage captured by Mister Drone UK on Youtube shows the current progress the club have made on the build. The video shows the framework for some of the stands emerging, as work continues for Everton’s new stadium.
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Everton's stadium development director Colin Chong has described what fans can expect to see at Bramley-Moore Dock over the coming months. Chong also spoke about how weather conditions could potentially play a factor in the near future.
"We are nearly one third of the way through the build, but we are not patting ourselves on the back or resting on our laurels. We still have a couple of winters to get through and in the meantime we need to get a lot of the high-level lifting activities done whilst the weather allows.
"As you’d expect, we, we can’t operate at high levels with strong winds. But we have analysed a lot of historical weather data to make predictions and plans, and Laing O’Rourke have a lot of data from their previous projects as to when weather conditions require them to suspend lifting activity to ensure operations are completed safely. This insight allows us to build accurate timelines for the project."
"The first terracing units have gone on to the steelwork and that alone will start to create a visual change as the gaps between steel are filled with concrete and the stadium’s bowl takes shape," Chong added.
"Supporters will probably be able to see the whole upper tier of concrete terracing installed in the next six months, apart from the East Stand which is used for site access and will be the last to complete. The lower tier terracing units will follow, once the roof steel is in place.
"The roof will no doubt be the most visual milestone moment. I am conscious that we are hostages to fortune with the wind. These are huge, expensive pieces of steel and aluminium cladding, manufactured in segments and they need installing in a certain sequence, starting with the north and south stands.
"I imagine we will start to see sections of the roof in place in the Spring of next year.
"The East and West stands are predominantly concrete builds, and they give stability to the whole scheme, so they will take longer to complete than the North and South. Then you have all the mechanical, electrical and plumbing services in those stands, so eventually, around a year from now, we will reach a point where, from the outside, few changes will be visible as all the work will be going on inside.
"Finally, the latticed brickwork that will form the external façade will start to be erected, possibly later this year and in various locations. By the time the external façade is in place, people will really begin to be able to make out the final form that our jaw-dropping new stadium will take.”
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