Xiamen Egret Stadium Achieves Groundbreaking Conversion Between Football and Track and Field
Xiamen, China – In an exciting development for sports enthusiasts, the Xiamen Egret Stadium has become the first stadium in China to offer a seamless conversion between football and track and field fields. This groundbreaking achievement was recently celebrated with the successful pre-acceptance of the stadium project.
Boasting the largest overall roof span and single built-up area in the country, the Egret Stadium is a truly remarkable structure. Located in the new city area of Xiamen, the stadium was constructed by Xiamen Road and Bridge Engineering Investment and Development Co., Ltd., and undertaken by China Construction Eighth Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd. It covers an expansive area of approximately 180,600 square meters and accommodates around 60,000 seats.
Designed to meet FIFA standards for football games, the stadium also caters to international and national track and field events. Furthermore, it can serve as a venue for diverse cultural and entertainment activities such as large-scale concerts and urban mass gatherings.
The distinctive feature of the Egret Stadium lies in its ability to convert between different sports configurations. With a total of 53,443 seats, the stadium transforms into a comprehensive track and field field. However, when converted to a football ground, the seating capacity increases to 60,592. This unique adaptability sets the Egret Stadium apart as the first in China, and the third in the world, to offer this level of versatility.
So, how does this transformation occur? The answer lies beneath the surface. Buried within the underground bass pool, 18 folding seat platform modules weighing over 9,000 tons each remain hidden. These modules can be lifted and moved with the help of cranes, effectively creating additional seating capacity for over 7,000 spectators. The seamless conversion from a track and field model to a football field model is a testament to the stadium’s ingenuity.
As the construction of the Egret Stadium nears completion, excitement is building for its inaugural event. On September 2, the stadium will host the “first show” of the Diamond League of the World Athletics Federation, further solidifying its status as a premier sports venue.
With its striking design, reminiscent of an egret in flight, and a harmonious integration of interior and exterior aesthetics, the Egret Stadium stands as a proud symbol of Xiamen’s dedication to sports excellence. The stadium’s beautifully curved roof, inspired by the traditional architectural style of southern Fujian, completes the visual masterpiece.
As China continues to transcend the boundaries of sporting innovation, the Egret Stadium serves as a shining example of what is possible. Sports enthusiasts around the world eagerly await the many exhilarating events that will take place within its walls.
The first in China, the professional football field and the comprehensive track and field field can be converted freely
Xiamen Egret Stadium passed the pre-acceptance
The first in China to realize the conversion between track and field and football fields
The state has the largest overall roof span and largest single built-up area
Southeast Net News, August 14 (Strait Herald reporter Cui Xiaoxu / Wen Shenwei / Photo Reporter Wu Lunan) On August 11, the country’s first large-scale comprehensive stadium with convertible stands – the Egret Stadium of the Xiamen Olympic Sports Center passed the pre-acceptance of the project , and The “first show” of the Diamond League of the World Athletics Federation will be officially presented on September 2.
Last weekend, the reporter walked into Egret Stadium to inspect the interior of the stadium beforehand. At the moment, the construction of the Egret Stadium is basically complete, and some workers are on site finishing the project and cleaning it up.
Bailu Stadium was built by Xiamen Road and Bridge Engineering Investment and Development Co., Ltd. and undertaken by China Construction Eighth Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd. The project is located in the new city area of the sports exhibition in the east of Xiamen City, with an area construction of about 180,600 square meters, five floors above ground, and about 60,000 seats audience seat. A functional location is considered according to the level of the super sports buildings. It can host national and international individual competitions. In the football game mode, it is designed according to FIFA standards. Given that it can host the Football World Cup in long term, the competition rooms have been designed and built to super standards. Its functions meet the needs of professional football games and professional track and field events, as well as cultural and entertainment activities such as urban mass gatherings and large-scale concerts.
Bailu Stadium is an extremely large comprehensive stadium with the largest one-time investment, the largest overall roof span, and the largest single construction area in Fujian Province. It has a high technical starting point, large scale, and many difficulties. Bailu Stadium’s steel roof has a unique and complex shape, asymmetrical from east to west, from north to south, with a span of 332.23 meters from east to west and 356.98 meters from north to south.
The reporter at the stadium noticed that there is a unique disconnection design between the middle stand and the top stand at the south end of Bailu Stadium, which connects the interior space of the stadium with the sea view outside, making it easier for fans to enjoy the view from the sea.
The Egret Stadium project is said to have been successfully completed in 37 months since it started construction in July 2020. After its completion, the Egret Stadium can host comprehensive international and national sports events.
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How to convert a football field and a track field?
From a distance, the Egret Stadium is based on white, with beautiful and smooth construction lines. The exterior of the stadium is an image of an egret flying high, and the roof design imitates a large house with southern Fujian characteristics. Entering the stadium, 53,443 auditorium seats form the “Egret Picture Breaking the Waves”, and the interior and exterior shapes complement each other, which together set the design theme of the stadium ” Flying Egret”. “53443” is just the number of seats in the auditorium when Egret Stadium is used as a comprehensive track and field field. After being converted into a football ground, the number of seats can be increased to 60,592. Bailu Stadium is also the first stadium in China and the third stadium in the world that can freely switch between a professional football field and a comprehensive track and field field.
How is a seat transfer done? “The key to transforming ‘53443’ into ‘60592’ is hidden in the ground floor. By lifting and moving the flat and inclined stands, the beautiful ‘transformation’ from the track and field model to’ The soccer field model has been completed.” Xiamen Luqiao Xu Bolin, on-site director of the Bailu Stadium engineering company, said that 18 folding seat platform modules were hidden in the underground bass pool of the Bailu Stadium stands. In the side-moving space, the crane is like “building blocks”, lifting and dividing these folding seat platform modules with a total weight of over 9,000 tons each, forming another activity platform in the location that can include more than 7,000 viewers.
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