If all goes to plan, in just over a year the first football and rugby games will be played at the new national stadium in Kockelscheuer.
To reach that ‘goal’ though, there’s still a lot to be completed, and yet the size and shape of the stadium is now clearly visible from the roundabout leading to route d’Esch, or from the A6 motorway that passed by the side of it.
After work commenced in September 2017 on the project, planned construction fell behind schedule by nearly four weeks last winter, due to prolonged rain periods and minus temperatures.
As a consequence, the planned completion date was moved forward to the end of 2019, or beginning of 2020.
However ever since then, the project and proceeded according to plan. According to Luxembourg City, the current skeleton framework of steel currently being assembled, should be complete by the beginning of 2019.
The roof construction, consisting of 51 white steel girders that individually attach to the framework, already help to make the form and size of the stadium recognisable.
The national stadium’s construction follows the plans of German architect office Gerkan Marg and Partners, at a cost of €60.35 million.
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