Original news was published on 18 June, 2014
The first of four World Cup games was last weekend played at the US$294 million Arena da Amazônia in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, with three matches left on the schedule. The arena roof was built to protect spectators from the harsh sun and torrential downpours common to this area, using an array of diamond-shaped fabric panels created by German-based Ceno Tec. Dascher provided the logistics for the mammoth undertaking.
The roof structure is made up of mutually supporting cantilevers, whose steel hollow core girders function as large gutters to drain the run-off of tropical rainwater. The roof continues into the facade to provide shade and shelter. The fields of the roof and facades consist of 252 translucent fiberglass fabric panels spanning a surface of 32,000 square meters, Dascher said in a statement.
The panels came by vessel to a private harbor terminal in Manaus, where sensitive freight is handled. Like all goods arriving in Brazil as part of the World Cup, a separate government agency also cleared the roof cargoes from Germany through customs. But using this service would have been impossible without the thorough groundwork needed in advance, since the Brazilian officials do a preliminary review of all documents, Dascher said.
The more the stadium construction progressed, the more the space surrounding the stadium shrank where the large parts waited for installation. For that reason, Dascher stored the roof components inside its own buffer zone.
“The demands placed on planning, transportation, and supplemental services were incredibly tough,” Manfred Asche, branch manager for Dachser Air & Sea Logistics Münster/Osnabrück, said. “The key to the seamless and on-time construction of the roof lay in the smooth communications between the manufacturer – Ceno Membrane Technology – as well as Dachser Brasil, the customs broker, and us as the logistics provider.”
The 42,374-seat Arena da Amazônia is one of the twelve locations hosting the 2014 World Cup matches. It was designed by gmp – Archtitekten Gerkan, Marg & Partner, Germany and built by Andrade Gutierrez of Brazil.
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