Laing O’Rourke has handed over Everton’s new £550 million stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock to Everton Football Club ahead of schedule.
The team completed the construction of the 52,888-seater stadium in 178 weeks of arrival on site.
The stadium was designed by Stadium architecture specialists MEIS and BDP.
With the use of its integrated supply chain and modern methods of construction, Laing O’Rourke manufactured more than 6,000 components off-site and delivered them to the project.
Workers also faced the challenge of constructing a stadium on top of watered ground and repairing and preserving the Grade II listed dock wall, before construction began.
Bramley-Moore Dock has stood as a Liverpool landmark, formerly a dockyard constructed in 1848 to accommodate the largest ships globally.
The interior design specialists, trades teams, and audio-visual engineers will now complete the stadium’s experiential elements over the next six months.
The stadium adds to the wider £5.5 billion Liverpool Waters regeneration project which will extend more than 2 kilometres along the banks of the River Mersey, with outline planning permission across 60 hectares.
With around £1 billion of new developments under construction, it is understood to be the “largest single-site private sector development in the country”.
In November last year, Homes England announced it will invest £56 million to fund major infrastructure works for a new neighbourhood within the Liverpool Waters development area.
Details for the first two test events have been announced as an under-18’s friendly fixture with 10,000 spectators and an under-21’s match increasing to a capacity of 25,000 people.
Laing O’Rourke project director, Gareth Jacques, said: “The seamless collaboration between ourselves and our integrated supply chain was crucial to the completion of this stadium.
“Everton FC plays such a huge role in the city of Liverpool and its people so when we took on the project, we wanted to make sure our work had a lasting impact as well as delivering an industry leading standard in operational excellence.
“To do this, we focused heavily on our social value initiatives to create job opportunities, engage with local schools, and raise money for local charities.”
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