Features in Sydney’s new sports stadium revealed
ANTI-terror features will be an integral part of the new Sydney Football Stadium, NSW Sports Minister Stuart Ayres has said. So will be keeping fans dry. Here is a video tour inside Sydney’s newest stadium.
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ANTI-terror features will be an integral part of the new Sydney Football Stadium, NSW Sports Minister Stuart Ayres has said.
The special design will counter potential terror attacks and the roof of the new Moore Park stadium will shield every spectator from the rain.
“Since the terrorist attacks in France a few years ago, we think very differently around inflows and outflows at stadiums,” Mr Ayres said, announcing the design at the SCG Friday morning.
“That was … built into the reference design that Cox Architects has done for the NSW government.
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“One of the things that we know we need to be able to do is evacuate stadiums in a much faster period of time — so access and egress in stadiums becomes critically important.
“That is a fundamental component of the design that we have chosen.”
Meanwhile, project designers confirmed every seat in the new stadium would be protected from the rain.
Infrastructure NSW head of projects David Richards, who worked in developing the stadium’s design, said fans would stay dry.
“The drip line, which is the leading edge of the roof, comes to the very first front row of seating all the way around,” he said.
“But obviously on a high wind day it is an impossible thing to do.”
Mr Ayres said: “This is the stadium that Sydney needs and it needs it now to make sure that we continue to protect the most important parts of our visitor economy.”
“We’ve seen across the country since the 2000 Olympics every other capital city reinvent in their new sporting infrastructure. Now it’s time for Sydney to go back to being the number one city for sporting infrastructure in Australia.”
The new stadium will open in 2022 on the site of Allianz Stadium, which will be knocked down at a cost of $729 million.
The state government has endured bitter political fighting over the plan, but it has argued a new stadium will be critical in attracting tourism to Sydney into the future.
