{"id":20025,"date":"2015-07-23T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T08:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=20025"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"the-liberty-stadium-opening-day-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2015\/07\/23\/the-liberty-stadium-opening-day-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liberty Stadium &#8211; Opening Day Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* There are 1,450 pre-case concrete piles in the ground<br \/>\n* If you laid out all the piles end to end they would stretch for 13 miles<br \/>\n* There is approximately 150 tonnes of reinforcement in the foundations<br \/>\n* Within the building and foundations there are more than 4,800 cubic metres of concrete<br \/>\n* 24,000 cubic metres of material has been excavated from the site<br \/>\n* There is over 18,000 cubic metres of imported fill on site<br \/>\n* The surface area beneath the stadium is a massive 26,662 metres squared or 6.5 acres<br \/>\n* The upper floors and roof structure are supported by 2,500 tonnes of structural steelwork which is equal to the weight of 300 average sized African Elephants<br \/>\n* There are approximately 2,500 holding down bolts fixing 460 steel columns<br \/>\n* The overall area of blockwork forming the internal and external walls amounts to 27,500 metres squared or 300,000 blocks<br \/>\n* There are over 420 doors throughout the stadium<br \/>\n* There are 26 sets of stairs<br \/>\n* There are 12 lifts<br \/>\n* There are 30 number turnstiles<br \/>\n* There are 250 WCs<br \/>\n* There are 200 wash hand basins<br \/>\n* There are 5,000 light fittings<br \/>\n* There will be over 10,000 trees and shrubs in the landscaped areas<br \/>\n* The pitch contains 10.1 million metres &#8216;Desso&#8217; nylon inserts<br \/>\n* There is 1 tannoy system (not working)<\/p>\n<p>OK, we made the last one up but the rest were taken from the programme of the opening day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* There are 1,450 pre-case concrete piles in the ground * If you laid out all the piles end to end they would stretch for 13 miles * There is approximately 150 tonnes of reinforcement in the foundations * Within the building and foundations there are more than 4,800 cubic metres of concrete * 24,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}