How It Will Be.
Polish National Stadium - Made in Italy
Warsaw, Poland 12 January 2010 - The Polish Government is relying on Italy to be prepared for Poland to host the Euro 2012 football championships. The stadium that will be home to the championship games is being imported from Italy.
More than twelve thousand tons of steel will travel 1.3 thousand kilometers for 14 hours from near Venice, Italy to Warsaw, Poland.
About 70 per cent of the steel construction is ready. It is prefabricated by Italian company Cimolai, which was also responsible for elements of the stadium for this year's World Cup in Johannesburg. But they'll have to work fast to get it all to Warsaw and built in time.
In order not to chip or scratch the lacquer work on any of the elements, some 28 meters long and weighing 50 tons, the journey will be made on special extra-wide trucks escorted by cars with flashing signals. The trip will take place at night, so as not to wreak havoc in peak-hour Warsaw traffic, and the route is specially planned to avoid narrow streets and sharp turns.
"The forwarding agent resolved this problem; the first shipments arrived on site on Monday (January 4). They were the foundation plates, but the route was tested", said a spokesperson for Alpine Bau, the leader of the syndicate building the stadium.
All of the steel elements need to be in place by April, and all the steel grating has to be ready in June. This is one of the main deadlines, and faces a fine of 100,000 PLN a day for the first two weeks and a million PLN a day for every day after that, said the National Centre for Sport vice-president Janusz Kubicki.
And though the National Centre for Sport estimates that in 30 per cent of the time allowed for construction only 18 per cent of the work is done, the contractors assure that some work just takes more time that other, and they are not behind schedule.
Despite the freezing conditions, concrete foundations are being laid and 60 per cent of the reinforcement work is in. Tents have been put up around the building site, and heating is allowing work to continue. Basically, the stadium will be made up of a barrel-like outer construction that fundamentally won't be attached to a floating roof, an openwork aluminum net in Poland's national colors that will rest on taut steel lines stretched across the top of the drum. That is, if it's ready in time for the UEFA European Football Championship Euro 2012.
By Victoria Ziarkowski
Freelance Writer
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