San Mames Football Stadium Roof

The new stadium embraced the challenge of conveying the old traditions of san mamés.

San mames football stadium roof.

Its atmosphere its respect and its passion. The new roof of the san mamés football stadium forms several layers of foil within an aluminium frame to create an inflated panel that retains its shape with compressed air. Towards the end of the 2015 16 season throughout the summer break and at the outset of 2016 17 extensions were added to the roof at a cost of 12 6 million estimated to increase the effectiveness against wet weather by 70. The old san mamés was an icon of world football it became an internationally renowned ground that earned its nickname.

Vector foiltec was contracted to undertake the detail design manufacture and installation of the texlon etfe cladding cushions to the stadium roof. San mamés also known as nuevo san mamés or san mames barria is an all seater football stadium in rafael moreno pitxitxi kalea bilbao basque country spain inaugurated on 16 september 2013 the stadium replaced the old san mamés as the home of athletic bilbao with a capacity of 53 289 seats san mamés is the 8th largest stadium in spain and the largest in the basque country. San mamés stadium is a truss horizontal cantilever structure stadium arena reinforced concrete structure steel reinforced concrete composite structure and steel structure that was built from 2010 until 2014. It was absolutely critical to work very closely with the project architects and engineers at idom on every aspect of the final solution to ensure full compatibility with.