February 2021
Construction update
The following construction works will be taking place over the course of the next three months:
- Perry Park / North of GMAC and HP Centre: Construction of the retaining wall has commenced, and will be ongoing until early 2022. The drainage and duct work in the throwers field has commenced and will be completed in April 2021. Installation of the throwers field itself has also commenced and will be ongoing until April 2022 - soil will be spread across the field and planted with grass seed in March 2021, subject to favourable weather conditions. The spreading of soil will require the use of a bulldozer and will take around two weeks. All precautions have been taken to ensure that potential noise is kept to an absolute minimum.
- New West Stand and main track: Installation of the steel frame, pre-cast terracing (concrete seat support) and metal decking for the new West Stand is ongoing, and will continue until around April 2021. To create the flooring, concrete will be poured onto the metal decking during the daytime and then it will be levelled and polished overnight (only on days when the concrete is poured and this is expected to be once/twice a week). These works will also be ongoing until April 2021 (subject to favourable weather conditions/temperature), but rest assured all precautions have been taken to ensure that potential noise is kept to an absolute minimum. Installation of the West Stand roof and curtain walling (glass panels on the outside of the building) will commence at the end of February 2021, and will be ongoing until summer 2021. Construction of the basic structure of the North and South stadium seating berms (raised banks to support the seating areas) has commenced and will be ongoing until summer 2021, with the remaining works being completed by April 2022. Ground preparation works for the main running track have commenced and will be ongoing until March 2021. Following this, formation of the track will begin and will be ongoing until April 2022.
- North of the existing East Stand: Demolition of the existing East Stand link bridges (those which previously connected the East Stand to the former Nelson and Knowles stands) has commenced and will be ongoing until March 2021. Following this, installation of the retaining walls, stairs, gently sloping pathway (between the East Stand car park and East Stand and Northern Plaza levels) and new link bridges (between the East Stand and North and South plaza areas) will commence and will be ongoing until April 2022.
