PeBeKa

One of the latest investments, and one most prestigious and anticipated by the company’s home town of Lubin is the designing and constructing of the football stadium for KGHM Zagłębie Lubin Sports Club by the PeBeKa-HOCHTIEF Consortium.

Structure profile:

Zagłębie Lubin’s football stadium is located in Lubin by the state road nr 3 from Wrocław to Zielona Góra. The design area is 6.48 hectares.
The stadium is the main facility expected to house the most important matches of KGHM Zagłębie Lubin footlball club’s first team. 
Also anticipated are matches by the national team in Europe and World Championships eliminations with other teams in the group.
This is why the construction works are based on fulfilling the basic conditions set forth by the Polish Football Association in an ordinance on the construction of new football facilities as well as UEFA regulations for category III stadiums, allowing for international matches.

Stadium technical data. Technical solutions:
The stadium will be modern and with a familial atmosphere. 16,300 seats will be provided. 15,600 of these will be ordinary seats. They will be numbered, which will help with match safety – it will be obvious who sits where. Additionally the stadium will include at least 700 VIP places. 600 of these will be covered with upholstery on the seat and the back. The seats will be around 60 cm apart. This will allow for a comfortable game watching. On top of that there will be 100 so-called Super VIP seats installed, that will be just like the VIP seats, only folded and more comfortable. There will be at least 32 seats for disabled persons as well.

Construction:
The stadium construction along with the main building was adjusted to the conditions due to mining exploitation.
Dilatations are placed in every third axis in the line of column-roof girder-toothed beam. Tribune groundwork as well as entrances are monolithic ferroconcrete, poured on the spot, on which the resistance beams of toothed beams and a set of lower pillar anchors. The stadium construction in the tribune part is made of prefabricated ferroconcrete elements (pillars, toothed beams of the auditoriums, auditorium plates) in the span of 10.10 meters. Construction elements of the roof are made of double-T HEA 800 beams suspended on two rows of ties and linked with purlins, on which the trapeze metal sheets are laid, making for the roof cover. On the western tribune side there is a building for social and administrative purposes, that will eventually house the management offices, conference rooms, catering halls for the VIPs and SUPER-VIPs, the Wellness area, as well as changing rooms, warm-up rooms, and baths for the footballers. 
The main building is constructed in framework, the framework being prefabricated ferroconcrete pillars, beams and bolts. Walls, monolithic ferroconcrete ceilings and part of the silicate block walls harden the construction.
The facility consists of three floors – the IIIrd storey being meant for the VIP and Super VIP guests along with catering services.
The building will also house all the devices essential for control, voltage support, maintenance and monitoring of the entire sports complex.

Works execution:
The stadium construction started with the tearing down of the old mound part on the south and eastern sides and a small part north of the former maintenance building. Also on the south side the old light table over a ferroconcrete tunnel for displaying score was dismantled. In the same time very detailed geological ground research was conducted, some reaching as deep as 20 m in the planned foundation areas. 
The stadium construction works are carried out with consideration for the continuity of football games within the dates set forth by the Polish Football Association with the exception of the fall round of season 2008/2009. During this time the matches will take place in the befriended town of Polkowice. For this reason the executor has to adjust the construction works organization and working mode according to the games schedule, which considerably inhibits the continuity of works. Also due to the fair taking place around the stadium every Saturday, that is attended by buyers and shopkeepers from all over the country, and that is a trade centre valuable to the region, the executor has to adjust the works schedule, so that the citizens can enjoy the sport shows at the stadium as well as shopping at the fair. The break in games lasting from May 10th 2008 until March 13th 2009 was necessary for the realization of stage I with the completion of a new stadium lawn moved 21 meters in relation to the former field in the direction of the eastern tribune, as well as the setting up of all installations necessary for its upkeep and nurture – the watering, heating and drainage installations. The four old lighting masts were also disassembled.
Since March 2008 football players returned to the new structure, 1/4th of which is still taken up with construction works constantly considering work coordination enabling the ongoing games and weekly fairs.

The football stadium construction is executed in II stages:
- stage I: 3/4th of the tribunes (south, east and north) along with the roofs and lighting; 15 male and female bathrooms; 4 first aid points; playing field (measuring 105x68), monitoring cameras, ticket sales systems, 96 spotlights, around 10,700 fans seats, shelter and seats for reserve players.
- stage II: 1/4th of the tribunes (western) along with the roof and lighting adapted to the needs of high definition TV, main building, footbridges, 72 spotlights, VIP and Super VIP seats, television and press tables. Stage I has ended on March 13th 2009; stage II will be continued until March 2010. 
In stage II the western tribune is executed, along with 6 footbridges on the mounds, toilets, first aid points, the main building, cultivation of the old mound – reinforcement and sowing grass, further works on roads and squares under the tribunes and around the structure.

Currently the construction of the main building in rough state is carried out along with the lower floors under the tribunes. Auditorium’s toothed beam installation and the tribune’s auditorium plates placement have both been finished.
On May 31st the steel roof construction has been finished.
The fourth tribune will house around 6,000 places, including 600 VIP and 100 Super VIP seats as well as 32 places for the disabled. A large conference room will be given to the press and TV, along with one glassed press studio, to TV studios, 10 press tables on the tribune, 10 pulpits each with 3 sitting places for TV and radio commentator as well as camera stands.

For a long time the space in the auditorium area was free, and the auditoriums w were not installed. This was due to the building and tribune construction design, which are tightly linked with one another and form one object. Because of this the auditorium’s installation could be carried out only after executing parts of the building beyond the tribunes’ area, because it creates a kind of resistance for the auditoriums – it may seem that the fourth tribune is identical to the tribune vis a vis, but apart from the visual mirror image, the construction is quite different and demanded a different installation sequence – this was a major challenge for us, and we do not wish to hide it. The elements weighing as much a 56 tons according to the previously assumed technology could only be installed with cranes that could lift 1,000 tons, because the installation distance was longer than 30 m and could be carried out only from the outside of the structure, because, as it was mentioned earlier, the inside was already filled with the grassy playing field and infrastructure, and thus it was physically impossible to lead the works like with the other 3/4th of the tribunes – from the inside. Because of this a change in technology was made, and the roof steel construction was first installed, and later the toothed beams and auditorium plates. This made for a considerable cost reduction and vastly shortened the time of installation.
The building itself is now having ferroconcrete and wall works carried out in the part under the tribunes, so the works progress will not be visible for the fans, but it will be up to the hitherto standards and according to schedule.
After executing the rough state, finishing and installation works will be commenced. Stage II is planned to finish at the end of February 2010.

Summary:
Despite difficulties in the form of sports games that had to take place on behalf of the Investor, as well as the weekly fairs around the stadiums, the works were carried out according to schedule and the Client’s demands, and thanks to that the PeBeKa-Hochtief Consortium widened its portfolio with a Stadium that is unique country-wide and will allow it to run in tenders for the Euro 2012 stadiums in many towns of Poland, as a very experienced contractor. It is necessary to mention that this stadium is the most modern in Poland, the second after Korona Kielce to be built in the current 20-year period, and also that, since groundwork was laid until the moment of opening – stage I was finished in one year.


Stadium in numbers:

• seats: 16,373 including:
  • disabled persons: 32
  • VIP: 600
  • Super VIP: 100
  • standard: 14,600
  • press & TV: 41
• playing field measurements: 105 x 68
• highest tribune edge: 13.71 m
• highest point of lighting mast: 32.55 m 
• highest point of pillar: 26.808 m
• highest point of roof girder: 20.735 m
• number of toilets: 15
• number of first aid points: 6
• number of axes: 52
• span between axes: 10.10 m
• weight of heaviest prefabricated element: 50,000 kg
• LED screens: 2
• parking spots: 150
• building floors: 3
• spotlights: 196

Geographical position