Nick, before fake news runs away again on a point, I should point out that the slim expansion joints in the barrel-cladding are NOT going to be covered over. Engineering-wise or practically, there is not need for them to be covered. The Expansion Joints in the Standing Seam are another matter altogether and are being 'covered'.
Good work Nick. I rarely watch these vids lately now that Anfield road is mostly finished, but now Bramley is almost there, and it is going to be an amazing stadium. We need to really do the Kop again and make it similiar to the Dortmund yellow wall (steeper, and a couple more thousand standing seats) to keep up with you and Untied soon. YNWA
Mate, I was watching a recent video about Anfield and it seems that you lot have bought buildings across from the kop and the street behind the Dalglish stand to look at expansion in the future. And that the club are now exploring the idea of CPO’s too.
@@JayEFC1969 How is that stand 20,000? Because of safe standing? I preferably would want a stand reminiscent of that instead of an American luxury stand is what I mean. I think Anfield Road is like that and we shouldn't make a duplicate of it in my opinion.
I'm from Australia, we get 90k plus at big Aussie Rules Finals games, there are no turnstiles into grounds. Turnstiles went out in the 70's. A little surprised to se them here.
I love the way they've incorporated features from the site's past into the development. It's a sign of respect. Those little touches add character. It would have been so easy to just use that plaza space for carparking. Kudos to Everton FC for not doing that.
I thought they would have spelled out 'everton' or 'EFC' in the seats but looking at this video , they have appeared not to. Great work Nick. An avid watcher of all your videos and a Carlisle United Fan
Absolutely brilliant stadium is bramley Moore but I really want the football to get better also Everton really must get the owners sorted out it's critical
It would be a nice touch to keep 1 turnstile incomplete and bring one of the old ones from Goodison Park to incorporate it and keep a bit of the old home going.
Another great video nick 👏 hoping to sit in the east stand 🤞 ,you've probably covered my question but can you tell me where the TV gantry and commentators vantage points will be ? Cheers
if you look closely the old chimney in the central/large Gate Tower has been replaced with a mimic chimney. It has no hole in the top. The chimney was a for a small fireplace in the small room at floor level that was for Port Police controlling all movements in and out of the dock area. Look closely some more and you'll see that it has a door on the west side and some small windows too. It's the same for both the southern and northern central gate towers.
Nick, I’m sorry if this has been previously addressed, but when you look at the original plans compared to the near finished stadium, between the brickwork was originally supposed to be windows, but is now black boarding. Do you or anyone else know why that changed? Just being nosey!! Thanks again for everything.
Was there yesterday,noticed the smell wasn't great hopefully won't be like that on matchdays.something else I noticed is the south stand glass looked dirty or is it meant to be that colour?
This is looking great now as it nears completion. But one thing worries me a little as it concerns safety: A long time ago I heard that the old Dock Wall was being "strengthened". I can't see any evidence that this has been done and what worries me is when the crowds come and the old wall is subject to pressure. So, has anything been done to reinforce the wall? I may have missed this operation, of course.
Hi nick as you know i always enjoy your videos how are you doing after that appalling game Saturday let’s hope we can get better in the next coming games and thanks
What's the story with the trees in the plaza? They look nice now but when the leaves fall off it's going to look crap not to mention that the leaves will stain the plaza if they fall when it's wet and aren't swept away in timely fashon.
I know you have probably covered it many times in past videos, but what’s the plans for where the offices are and where the car park is? Is that owned by EFC?
No, it's owned by PEEL and will be returned to them for their full use as per the Liverpool Waters project. When PEEL have completed their developments all around Nelson Dock, it's likely to have 'pedestrian' entrances into BMD at the SE and SW corners.
Always appreciated and in awe Nick. Any idea when the cladding wrap around on the SE and SW structures below the main cladding (with the black framing) will be installed or why that's being left for the time being?
I've spotted on other channels that there are some structures that have appeared at both the W and E ends of the base of the Viewing Gallery (sticking out from under the overhang, beyond the line of the black steels) and one has to wonder if that is in preparation for the cladding being installed sometime soon.
I know they probably won't be allowed to do it, but those entrance towers on the gate look like the Everton tower without the coned roof,I'm just wondering if they could make them two look like the tower, with E.F.C at each base.
Tom: I am afraid that you're ignoring the very, very important factor of the Heritage Status of said Tower Gates and the Regent Road wall. It's never going to be remotely possible. Having a nod to history on a badge is quite, quite different from re-writing history. You'll have to box the idea up and put it in the attic. 😉
Those air vent panels really look like some of the cladding has just fallen off due to its randomness. Why not just mirror the west stand with some false panels. OCD overload haha.
The old dock wall was interesting. The blue 'water' paving now makes sense as a representation of where the water was as framed. by the old dock wall.Very enlightening. It will also mirror the actual water channel on the west side. That's a great and imaginative design touch. I'm now thinking the barrel cladding and roof represent an upturned hull. What do you think?
Hi Nick, superb video as per usual. I was just wondering if you know if Everton have planned a full stadium Tifo for our first game at BMD. It would be nice if they did something to celebrate leaving Goodison and moving to Bramley moore. UTFT HAIL HAIL
Can someone explain to me in detail what the process is happening with the football pitch? They've added these giant Yorkshire pudding moulds and covered them with a dusty substance. Is this soil? And when does the grass seeding commence? Are they trying to increase the height of the pitch, like at Old Trafford, or will be it flat like at Anfield? Thanks.
This is from the EFC stadium newsletter: “The waterproof membrane that signals the build-up of the playing surface at Everton Stadium is being rolled out. The impermeable liner forms a barrier between the initial laying of cabling and the sand infill, and yet-to-be-installed upper levels. The membrane is fusion-welded to form a watertight base level, upon which a drainage system will be installed, that allows for water storage for irrigation. Atop that, heating pipes and a gravel layer will be installed, ensuring this is robust enough to avoid damaging the drainage system. The work then sees the lower and upper rootzone installed, before seeding can commence later this summer. Once the seeding is complete in early October, specialised machinery will then stitch synthetic fibres into the roots of the grass to strengthen them and provide a hard-wearing, hybrid SIS grass surface. These fibres, covering around five per cent of the playing surface, are designed to interlock with the growing grass to provide strength and longevity.”
I'm worried that these, aptly named, "Yorkshire Pudding" moulds will collect water and prevent draining - leading to a pudding-like surface after heavy rain - in other words a Quagmire...
@@mikeoglen6848 Mike: let me see if I can calm megaworrier's fears. The construction of a modern pitch is actually a very clever and specifically-designed process. The pitch is designed to be created as an elevated water-table where all water in and out is controlled and left to passive forces or 'nature'. The plastic bed acts as the base of the water-table and everything above it is them controlled. Water is sprayed across (or rain) and is allowed to migrate, using gravity, down through sand and then gravel into the matrix grid that will hold water, up to a point as a bit of a reservoir, but the excess will migrate sideways (bear in mind that the whole pitch will have a camber to induce that. In effect the excess water (that means that which soil, sand and gravel do not naturally 'hold' by natural capillary and meniscular forces) will be carried away from the edges. Whilst the soil will be sandy soil and the sand underneath will ensure that water will drain from those layers quite quickly, the gravel lower down will hold more water than the layers above, but that is a good thing, not bad.
Im curious what the upper east stand concourse will look like with the uneven elevation of the tunnels out to the seats. There's 3 lower entrances on north and south ends of the stand, and then 4 slightly higher tunnel entrances centrally. So just curious how that looks to access them from the same concourse inside.
@@DuncTheBlue1878 is underneath that hospitality section open to the connect the regular seating concourses north and south? I know the ground floor is meant to be mostly open for fans to walk around inside. Not sure about the uppers?
@@Jstroud3 I know that the Trinity Place Bar will only be accessible to fans sitting in the expensive seats at the centre and top of the east stand lower tier
J: Have you taken into account that some of the vomitories are like tunnels with flat floors from the internal concourses and some are plain vomitories at the end of staircases?There are in fact 4 floor levels inside.
I was having a think and I do not seem to remember ever seeing how and where the extra seats in the stadium will be achieved if the expansion plan to 60,000+ capacity?
60K+ capacity will only be achieved if the government change the law on safe standing, i.e. 3 fans per 2 rail seats in the lower tiers of the south, north and north east stands. Highly unlikely
@@garymiller7218 I can't know to which outside dock wall you are referring: 1) Regent Road, 2) The West Quay, 3) The Mersey Wall. However, with all three there'd be no plan to 'beautify' them as they're Heritage Assets and the principle will be to leave them as found. The Regent Road Gate Towers were 'restored' as they had serious defects that needed early intervention. The Cut-throughs were made good and there was a little cleaning that was carried out around those areas (on the inside/west side of the Regent Road wall) to remove building work dust etc. But that's all re Regent Road wall. It's expected that, during the EFC Customisation project, the inside of the Mersey Wall at the far west of the West Quay will have some images and branding mounted on the security fencing so that the public on the West Concourse areas are not looking so much at a fairly unsightly wall there but we shall have to wait and see what happens.
Are they going to use the Heritage Railway to bring fans to the game? I know it's a short walk (easy for me to say), from Goodison to the new stadium, but what's the point of keeping the tracks?
@@edwardhamilton2609Heritage.There are about 100 metres of tracks which have been relaid, from the original line which used to carry coal trucks. That is the only piece of the original railway remaining, retained for heritage not transport purposes. There are short lengths of railway line at the Royal Albert Dock too, and they don’t carry the 2.15 from Paddington either.
@@JayEFC1969 I was thinking of before the game and the huge jams you get in Goodison and Bullens Roads with fans going both ways past fans queuing at the turnstiles. That won't happen at the new ground and, as you say, it should be even easier getting out,
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@DuncTheBlue1878 I'm a bit torn over this one, I have to admit. On the one hand, those players are intrinsically linked to Goodison and that piece of ground, but on the other, they're equally as intrinsically linked to Everton football club as a whole wherever the club exists. I'd probably say that they should be moved if I was pushed, but I'm not 100% on it.
@@colingillbanks4022 Knowing the club, they’ve probably commissioned statues of Michael Keane, Mason Holgate and Ashley Young for BMD, so there won’t be any space for the other statues
Hasn't anyone noticed how bad the fake brick columns look because of the creases or lines that run all the way across at various heights ...personally I think it ruins the whole look and makes it look super artificial ...like Leggo or something.
