CAMP NOU'S DIAMOND STRUCTURES ARE 70% COMPLETE! Third Tier Ready & Huge Progress

[00:00:00][music] >> Today is a day of percentages and proximity.

[00:00:04]Of scaffolding coming down and spotlights going up. Of a renovation that is not slowly progressing anymore, but rapidly concluding. Let us walk through every single extraordinary detail.

[00:00:17]Opening today at the VIP ring section, new bars, specifically [music] plastic bars, are being placed around the developing block walls of the exterior VIP area. And the significance of this installation is not in the bars themselves, but in what they signal about what is coming after them.

[00:00:33]Because when you see plastic bars being systematically installed around newly constructed block walls in a premium architectural context like the VIP ring, there is really only one conclusion to draw. Those walls are not going to remain exposed. They are going to be covered.

[00:00:50]The plastic bars being installed around the VIP ring exterior block walls are the preliminary fixing infrastructure for profile cladding that is going to be applied to those walls.

[00:01:00]The bars create the spacing, the fixing points, and the ventilation gap between the raw block wall surface [music] and the cladding profile that is going to sit in front of it.

[00:01:09]They are the structural preparation that allows an external cladding system to be properly and durably mounted on an existing wall, separating the cladding from the wall with enough space for any moisture that penetrates the cladding to drain away safely rather than being trapped against the wall surface.

[00:01:26]This means that when the renovation of the Camp Nou is fully complete, [music] the raw block walls of the VIP ring exterior that you can see today are [music] not going to be part of the finished picture.

[00:01:37]They're going to be covered entirely hidden behind a profile cladding system that is going to give the VIP ring exterior the kind of refined, finished, and premium surface treatment >> [music] >> that befits the most prestigious and most commercially important section of the new Camp Nou.

[00:01:52]What exactly those profiles are going to look like and how dramatically they are going to transform the appearance of the VIP ring exterior is something that the coming weeks of observation are going to reveal as the installation progresses.

[00:02:06]>> [music] >> Moving now to the lower sections of the South Goal area, the crews are working inside the elevator sections of the South Goal lower area and the specific activity they are engaged in is the removal of the scaffolding that has been in place within those elevator interior zones. The interior metal works for the lower South Goal elevator pathways are almost done. The scaffolding that has been enabling those works has served its purpose and now it is coming down. The removal of that interior scaffolding is the signal that the interior phase of the lower South Goal elevator development is closing and that the exterior phase is about to begin.

[00:02:46]Because the next step in the sequence, >> [music] >> following the completion of the interior metal works and the removal of the supporting scaffolding, [music] is the installation of the exterior sandwich panels that are going to cover and enclose those elevator sections on the outside.

[00:03:00]>> [music] >> And the timeline for that exterior sandwich panel installation is specific and and genuinely exciting. By next week, those panels are going to be going on. Next [music] week, the exterior sandwich panels at the lower South Goal elevator sections are going to be installed next week.

[00:03:17]That is a concrete, near-term, calendar-specific projection that tells you exactly how close this phase of the South Goal exterior development truly is.

[00:03:28]Now to the update that sits at the heart of today's video and that carries the most powerful and most direct statement about where the diamond structure program currently stands because 70% is a number that deserves to be [music] stated clearly, appreciated fully, and celebrated genuinely. The sideline diamond structures are almost 70% [music] complete across the three structures being developed at the sideline area, the cumulative development has reached a point where nearly three quarters of the entire construction program for these structures is done.

[00:04:01]Foundation concreting, formwork installations and removals, incline shape construction, block wall installations, interior clearing and measurements.

[00:04:11]All of that work, all of the phases that have been tracked and reported on across so many previous updates, represents [music] the 70% that has been achieved.

[00:04:21]And when you look at what the remaining 30% involves, the picture that emerges is one of a program that is heading into its most visually transformative and most operationally definitive phases.

[00:04:31][music] The remaining 30% heavily involves the upper concreting phase and the interior works.

[00:04:37]Upper concreting, the final pours that are going to complete the structural formation [music] of the upper sections of those diamond structures and give them their permanent finished form. And interior works to fit out, the finishing, the installation of the elements that are going to turn the cleared and measured interiors into the fan zone destinations and the commercial spaces that hundreds of thousands of Barcelona supporters are going to experience on match days. These are not preliminary phases. They are not structural groundwork or foundational preparation.

[00:05:09]They are the phases that produce the finished product, the diamond structures [music] in the form that fans are going to see, enter and experience.

[00:05:17]And with 70% already done and those final 30% phases now imminent, >> [music] >> the completion of the sideline diamond structures feels genuinely close in a way that is viscerally exciting.

[00:05:29]The next weeks are going to be more intense at [music] the diamond structures than anything that has come before. The upper concreting is coming.

[00:05:37]The interior works are coming.

[00:05:39]And the sideline area of the new Camp Nou is going to transform dramatically.

[00:05:44]And finally, let us close today's update with an observation that is both practically significant and deeply symbolic in what it represents for the readiness of the third tier for the fans who are going to fill it next season. A large number of spotlights have been spotted on the third tier terraces, specifically at the foot of the platforms. [music] And the reason those spotlights are there is genuinely exciting when you understand the full context of their movement. During last season, when the third tier was still under development and the upper sections of the stadium were not yet operational, the spotlights that were needed to illuminate the construction zones and to serve the operational requirements of the areas that were in use were installed predominantly at the second tier level.

[00:06:26]The second tier carried the lighting load for much of what was happening above it because the third tier was not yet at a stage where permanent [music] or semi-permanent lighting installations were appropriate or possible.

[00:06:37]But that situation has now changed. The third tier has advanced sufficiently in its structural completion, in its terrace condition, in its overall readiness, that the spotlight installation can now move upward to the [music] third tier where those lights are actually needed. And that upward movement of the spotlights is not just a practical lighting adjustment. It is a statement about the third tier's readiness.

[00:07:04]You install spotlights at the foot of third [music] tier platforms when the third tier is close enough to operational use that proper illumination of its zones [music] is the next appropriate step. The practical benefit of moving those spotlights upward from the second tier to the third tier is also genuinely significant.

[00:07:22]>> [music] >> It frees up substantial space at the second tier that was previously occupied by the lighting infrastructure serving the upper construction zones.

[00:07:32]That freed space at the second tier is space that can now be prepared, configured, [music] and used for the match day purposes it was always designed for because the third tier is ready to carry its own lighting load.

[00:07:44]Everything is getting set. The capacity is increasing.

[00:07:48]And the spotlights climbing from the second tier [music] to the third tier are one of the clearest and most visually immediate signs of exactly how ready the upper tier truly is for the fans who are going to fill it next season.

[00:08:00]Second tier lights moving up. Third tier receiving them. Space being freed below.

[00:08:05]Capacity being prepared above. The new Camp Nou is getting ready to welcome more fans than it has seen in years.

[00:08:13]And the spotlight installation at the third tier platforms today is the light quite literally illuminating the path to that magnificent moment. Four updates today. Each one rich with meaning and each one pointing toward the same destination of a stadium that is closing in on operational readiness with a speed and a completeness that [music] is genuinely breathtaking. Plastic bars being installed around the VIP ring exterior block walls, the naked walls you see today, are going to be covered with profiles. And the finished VIP ring is going to look nothing like its current state.

[00:08:45]South goal, lower elevator scaffolding being removed as interior metal works near [music] completion next week. The exterior sandwich panels are going on.

[00:08:55]The sideline diamond structures at almost 70% complete [music] with the remaining 30% involving upper concreting and interior works, the intensity of the coming weeks is going to be unlike anything that has come before. And spotlights moving from the second tier to the third tier, freeing space below and illuminating the readiness above.

[00:09:14]Next season, the capacity increases.

[00:09:16][music] Next season, more fans fill this magnificent stadium. And right now, [music] today, every update we bring you is another piece of proof that it is going to be ready. Please don't forget to subscribe for more updates. Visca El Barca. Visca Catalunya. See you in the next one.

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