Soccer City lights up Joburg night sky
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The lights at the completed Soccer City stadium were turned on for the first time on Tuesday night.
Building the 90 000-seat 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup stadium in Soweto required 90 000 m³ of concrete, about 10 000 t of reinforcement steel, nine-million bricks and 13 000 t of structural steel.
The structure has a double layer of fabric roof and required 32 400 fibre-cement panels to complete the calabash-inspired design of the façade.
It took some 9 980 000 hours to wrap up the construction of Soccer City, since the project’s inception in 2007.
The stadium, built by the Grinaker-LTA/Interbeton joint venture, will host the opening and final matches of the global soccer spectacular.
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Awesome Stadium! The facade was realized with glassfibre reinforced concrete panels - fibreC. www.fibreC.com
Stephanie Jung on 09 Dec 09
Picture by: Duane Daws
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