Sod all the nay sayers about line of sight, height, distance! I'm not an Everton fan, i'm a WBA for my sins but i have watched your videos since they started, i think what you do is fabulous and very informative. As somebody who likes modern architecture and especially football stadiums, your work is a great watch and always enjoy your commentary. Keep up the good work Mr Drone, its a pleasure
You can’t please everyone about your can you see your drone , superb video Nick and from a Fox 🦊 get well soon Geoff . Very exciting with key dates on schedule of other jobs too the stadium 👍 👌
Fan from Atlanta, Georgia. I enjoy watching your videos and monitoring the progress of this project. Made my first pilgrimage to Goodison for the season opener last August and look forward to attending a match at Bramley Moore. Best of luck to Geoff with prayers and positive energy sent your way from across the pond. COYB!
11:44 I think david meant this part on the west barrel cladding onto the upper south windows. There are caps been put on and no space now. Top work again mate and hope the operation goes well tomorrow too for our fellow blue!!
@davidbadcock2225 I think it was described perfectly....obvs hard to see on the small screen. Very impressive though isn't it. I remember nick missing the first roof lift and was gutted but getting the last barrel cladding lift is more impressive I'd say.
Great video as usual. The stadium is looking amazing. Get well soon Geoff and a very speedy recovery 🙏. Best wishes, Graeme from Portsmouth. Play up Pompey.
Great update as always Nick. I went passed our stadium earlier today. I had never noticed it before but the roof has a dome effect of some magnitude. I watch some lads on the east elevation at the section of the barrel cladding and the roof above the new shop entrance. It towered so much higher the lads standing there. Really impressive. Best wishes Geoff from the mighty blue army mate.
@@stephenlinden-wyatt-ys8vy Yes, it hides the very end part of the frame of the last column of barrel-cladding sections, bridging the gap that existed between the outer surface of the barrel sheets and the outer edge of the inset coving/fascia to the window.
Hi Nick, thank you for bringing so much pleasure over the past couple of years. Fantastic job. Could I ask please, are the Archibald Leitch latticework patterns on the brick cladding more visible with the naked eye than on video, because I can't see them? Would appreciate your take on this. Thanks.
Hi there Nick, I thought I’d make you aware that I’ve noticed a cap/edging which appears to be going on the top edge of the barrel cladding (starting from the north side of the West Terrace!) so that will make it definitely more weather resistant! 👍🏼 It’s looking fabulous isn’t it, counting the days now! Keep up the great work! (Marie)
I thought the perforations in the arch barrel cladding were for aesthetic light works, like what the Allianz Area in Munich does. I had no idea they were for exhaust vents.
See you had your one day of summer on yesterdays vid Nick.....lol Neat Vid again, does it ever stop raining in UK, certainly not while I was there some weeks ago. 🤔
Hi Nick , amazing video once again , on the south stand will they putting cladding on each side of the lower part where the glass is being finished 9:50 seconds in .
Angle: yes, there will be similar, but not identical, paneling going in on the ends of the Viewing Gallery. It will be the same anodised aluminium material but with no perforations. How large each panel will be remains to be seen.
Best of luck to Geoff for his procedure and swift recovery. From a blue in Philippines. I'm still convinced I can see Leitch design at either end of South stand above walkway. But I think it's just metalwork that will be covered. Anyone else thinking the same, or just me?😊
Steven: if you want people to answer your question meaningfully, adding a timestamp and reference points at that time really helps them to see the exact feature to which you are referring. I think you may be referring to the black steels that are at either end of the Viewing Gallery. They are merely an engineering necessity and crossed diagonal steels are a regular feature in many buildings. It's not unique to GP, BMD or anywhere else. A lot of bridges have them, for instance. Anyway, you correctly predict one other aspect, which is that they will not be seen in future. Before too long they will be installing panels made of the same anodised aluminium as the barrel-cladding in a curved form, as the barrel-cladding, but without any of the perforations.
Hi nick I've noticed on a drone footage that there are 2 holes at the north stand and south stand of the pitch area where you would expect the goalposts to be
Can you look at the solar panels on the South roof as it looks like they have done half already. It has gone on really fast and looks like will be done inside 2 weeks or so
Geoff you'll be good to go mate a few weeks in hossie then rehabilitation.... If ya not up to speed come the new season.. Then away to blythe spartens you go.. Take care my friend stay strong... The Everton family
“Goodison Legacy Project is a new mixed-use regeneration scheme consisting of ten new development blocks on the land currently occupied by the existing Goodison Park Stadium in Liverpool. The scheme includes affordable and social housing, a community health and medical centre, residential care, an enterprise building, a new education centre, offices, community-focused retail, three residential towers and a park.”
Question: Do you know exactly what is happening with the water channel i.e. how it will be constructed? They've obviously shored up the side nearest the stadium using rebar and spray-concrete, but is the same thing going to be done for the other 'wall' and the remainder of the floor of the channel? I know all will be revealed in good time and maybe I'm being a little impatient, but I just thought that I'd ask... Apologies too, if this has already been covered somewhere! UTFT 💙👊
Nice update Nick 👍🌟👌🏻I don’t understand the BOLT DIG , you say it’s to allow the water in, but I thought they were leave it as it is and maybe landscape 🌳🌲🌻it which could look really nice Sparky 🍻🍻
@@DuncTheBlue1878 Yes I’m, I thought I heard Nick say Bolt Dig. But yes the Big Dig of the water channel, why not landscape that area or isn’t it allowed?
@@marksmith1944 The club have to create the water channel - it’s a requirement of the planning permission (a request from our friends at Historic England and the Environment Agency). I think it’ll be a great feature
Hi Nick watching the videos the exits from the ground onto the dock road dont look large enough to cope with 50 thousand fans leaving at the same time also the north stand exit that comes onto the fan plaza looks very cramped between the stand exits and the new wall their building
I think there are 6 exits in the wall along Regent Road. The club have conducted modelling to show what will happen after the final whistle, and it’ll be fine - better than Goodison. Also, the club want as many fans to stay in the stadium as possible - to have a drink at the bar or eat in the many restaurants. So, not every single one of the 52,888 fans will be exiting at the same time
Hi Nick, great work as always and thanks for braving the rain lol. The scissor lift mention at 9 mins: does anyone know if the barrel cladding is still going to wrap around to that lower section as well (i.e. from where the guys were working, back to the stadium wall?) It was covered in the CGI mockups originally and I think look unfinished lso far. Get well soon Geoff.
At 09:37 - you can see the guys reworking the frame for the final dummy window. The section to the right side of them (and the South West Corner too) will have a similar finish to the barrel cladding, but without any holes.
There are a few pieces of bespoke barrel cladding pieces to finish off at either end of the hospitality area on the south stand. If you remember the bookends analogy from a while back. Great stuff mate ✌️
Craig: Yes although they won't be quite the same as the barrel-cladding panels. They will comprise the same anodised aluminium material but without perforations and we will have to wait and see how compounded each section is.
Do you mean the Hydraulic Tower? If so, LoR handed that building over to EFC a while ago but the club haven’t announced what function it will provide. Probably a cafe and museum
Anyone know why the cladding on the east side doesn't have the symmetrical vents(?) like it does on the west side? All nice and spaced out. Cheers for the video as always, Nick.
They’re air exhaust vents. They’re placed over extractor fans from hospitality e.g. kitchens. The west is the main stand and, therefore, has more hospitality. So, it has more vents. The east stand has less hospitality and, therefore, fewer vents. The spacing, size and number of vents is dictated by the extractor fans, not by symmetry.
The renderings seem to show a different type of cladding to go on there. It looks like ether silver or white to match the cladding currently in place underneath the South Stand. It's got a square pattern on it, and not the perforations that are on the barrel roof cladding.
Lee: yes, there will be similar, but not identical, paneling going in on the ends of the Viewing Gallery. It will be the same anodised aluminium material but with no perforations. How large each panel will be remains to be seen.
Craig: I've got past the shouting at the screen stage as I'm resigned to Nick's frustrating habits, bless him. 😤 I just eye-roll and sigh and then wonder how many more 'thrashing-around-in-the-dark' comments it will induce. I thought the end-cap reference point was pretty 🤬 clear and it wouldn't need a screenshot. Wrong for the umpteenth time!
@@craigshelley6759 Craig: that's not the issue in this case. The explanation should have been enough to know at what he needed to point his camera. What's done is done. I am sure nearly everyone else understood, even if Nick hadn't.
Don't know if this has been asked before, but are there any plans to put "EVERTON" in the North and South Stands windows...like the artist impressions of the finished Stadium ??? TIA
@@DuncTheBlue1878 Thanks, I think it's a shame, would have been great for visitors coming in on Cruise Liners, knowing exactly whose stadium it was !!!
@@blueben99 Everyone will know that stadium is ours…and, if they don’t, someone will tell them. We are the famous EFC and we are respected wherever we may go
I hope they make the roof light up a really powerfull blue over the whole front and back of the barrel cladding on the roof like in the clubs videos of the stadium like the Bayer arena goes red
Efc88: yes, there will be blue mood lighting for the barrel. Some of the the lighting posts are to be seen on the concrete roof, equally spaced in an arc tracing the base of the barrel.
Nick, what a shame that you were thwarted by the rain. Joke warning: I thought one of my screens had gone on the blink when I saw your top. 1) I thought that my references for the 'Capping' were clear and it would seem that most people understood even if you hadn't grasped it quite. For both the North and South windows, they are installing coving or fascia, choose your terminology, in the form of 'grey' panels, from the glass itself outwards to meet the lip of the barrel-cladding, to the side, or the Standing-seam roof, at the top. However those panels, up until now, have finished short of covering the gap between them and the outer edge of the barrel-cladding, such that the sides of the barrel-cladding frames that hold them in place were still to be seen. But now they have started to cover that gap at the every ends with another small greyish-toned panel in the same mode as the panels that are the coving/fascia already described, thus making good the close finish. 2) Clearly they have at last set about finishing off the dummy window panelling at the extreme SE end of the Viewing Gallery, which was my intended leading Q you used. Maybe soon they will set about installing the end curvatures of the Viewing Gallery which, if still following the plan, will be more anodised aluminium sheeting, like the barrel-cladding, just without any perforations. 3) Although previously requested, I don't know whether you intended, before rain stopped play, to highlight the wind baffles that have started to be fitted on the first black post of the overhang at the E end of the North Stand? 4) Although previously requested, I don't know whether you intended, before rain stopped play, to highlight the balustrades being installed between the old Dock Granite Coping Stones and the pedestrian areas along the West Quay?
I didn't think they would seed the pitch, I thought they would lay turf with grass already grown. Similar to what was done in Anfield after the concerts recently. Maybe it's because there's no real deadline for the pitch to be ready or something?? Which would be the more premium solution?
There doesn't seem to be a hard plan for it as yet. Not one that's been officially announced anyway. I've seen suggestions that it will be a Cafe and/or a museum, but no-one seems to know for absolutely certain. Pretty sure Nick mentioned recently after his stadium tour that it was actually handed over to EFC some time ago as well, so it would be interesting to know what they plan to do with it.
Marko: Colin has replied correctly. The outline plan was for it to be a combined cafe and museum (unspecific about EFC or BMD or both). EFC haven't committed yet to the specific final plan. Longer term it was mooted to also become the northern terminal of the planned Mersey Walk all the way from the National Gardens past the other three of the four graces and the old hexagonal Victorian Clock Tower.
@@davidbadcock2225 David, a question about the roof - There's been a few videos recently with views from up there and I noticed that the outer edges of the standing seam sections look a little rough and uneven. Is the whole outer edge due to be capped with something (guttering or whatever) do you know? I don't imagine they'd leave it as it is, but it would seem a pretty big job to be finished off at this stage!
Great video as always Nick, does anyone know how deep the western channel will be? I know that the other docks are around 8m.deep If Everton are going to develop the South dock into say a pleasure boating marina in the future the link would need to be at least 5m deep.
@@JayEFC1969 Hi, Jay, sorry to be pedantic but it was already 'blocked' before the project started. There are pipes, pumps and valves under the southern Isolation Bridge which is why there is that row of undisturbed Inspection Hatches along the Isolation Bridge.
Rob: yes, there will be similar, but not identical, paneling going in on the ends of the Viewing Gallery. It will be the same anodised aluminium material but with no perforations. How large each panel will be remains to be seen.
On the west stand barrel claddng the darker parts form an even pattern down the middle, however on the east stand they are even towards the south side but not the north. Why is this as my ocd kicks in whenever I see it😊
It was mentioned in an earlier video where David said they are exhaust ports and due to the differences in the stands, there are less ports in the east stand compared to the west.
@@DuncTheBlue1878 thanks. I understand now, I just hope that it's not too noticeable from ground level as the lack of symmetry stands out (for me). But as Nick more or less said if that's all you have to worry about regarding the stadium then they've done a great job.....
Halty: I'm afraid that Dan Meis (DM) the architect decided to stomp over everyone's OCD for perfect symmetry. What I am writing won't change your outlook on life, nor this stadium, but this explanation of the architect's intention might at least allow you to see it a little differently. DM wanted to allow for some aspects of obvious symmetry but not in every single aspect. New stadia have increasingly resorted to sterile, uniform, perfectly symmetrical, blob shapes, which then have no 'character' or alternative points of interest. You wouldn't attend an art gallery if there was only one modern, cuboid art piece or one sculpture of a perfect sphere, especially if another gallery had exactly the same. So, DM's intention was to make sure that, even though there is a unifying principle to the whole stadium, every stand was different in shape and nature and every view, internally and externally, being different too, by default. One way of doing so was to reflect the compromise decisions that had to be made for engineering and location, but also to celebrate the engineering that has been undertaken (not quite as far fetched as Lloyds of London's inside out appearance). It's intended to provide a feeling of organic growth that you will see in older stadiums, such as GP, where every stand is different. Anyway, your OCD plight is definitely not singular and your comment is one that has been made lots of times but i hope that you can at leas understand the intention and grow accustomed to it, even if it's not a natural bed for you to lie in.
@@davidbadcock2225 that's me told 😊. Seriously though thanks for that explanation. I guess that answers my other question, why is the North Stand not the same size as the South, to gain additional capacity. Anyhow, I can't wait to be sat in there, the only problem is which stand should I choose....
That section will likely get the waterproof cement sprayed onto it, as the rest has, I think that it is just the rough finish before LoR cement over it, and screed it to be flat.
A bit ‘iffy’ especially as the wall is a grade II listed building 😬Darren is right, waterproof cement will be added, they just needed to clear the sand away from that corner
Olly: what you have just noticed is the one of the old Dock Gates that would have swung out to cover half the gap to the other side. There is another Dock gate buried on the other side. There is another pair at the Northern end too. It will be being left as it is, required by the Heritage Stakeholders. It will be clearer when they have cleared away all the sand off it due to it having remained buried since very early on in the whole project. Contrary to what others are stating here, it will not have waterproof concrete applied to it and neither will there be a concrete base applied to the water channel in front of it.
Must be a red calling the stadium shite no need things have just moved on from the old disjointed looking grounds and did mention a year ago about the lack of anything blue on the stadium facade the heritage people will not allow it has to be in keeping with the other brickwork buildings in the area. I have been told did ask the question myself about the lack of Everton badge or EFC on the seating area, but I think it was David Babcock, who told me it’s just called the blue wall, it’s grown on me now cheers up the toffees
Yeah there is a distinct lack of blue externally, but I think this will mostly be addressed by the decorative stuff yet to be added, like flags and banners, etc. Goodison is predominantly grey outside aside from the wraparound timelines and some blue painted brickwork, oddly enough. There'll be no doubt whose home ground it is when it's finished, I reckon.
It was something to do with a heritage committee, it just wasnt allowed to put much of blue color on clading or other materials. Blue lighting on some areas off the stadium will have to do.
James: broadly-speaking the other replies have covered the topic. However, there are plenty of potential branding opportunities identified in the approved plans from September, 2020, and the list is quite long (if you want to know more, then let me know). That said, the eventual finish will depend on the results of the naming rights project being undertaken by a US Specialist. LoR will not be involved in any of the customisation process, which will be undertaken by EFC through separate sub-contracts, much as they've done at GP over the years.
Can you tell us when the mother ship leaves her docking station which end is the front, is it the south end or the north and will it fly helicopter style I.e. slightly nose down. Steven Hargreaves 58 years an Evertonian Tamworth Staffordshire 😂
Anyone know why the cladding on the east side doesn't have the symmetrical vents(?) like it does on the west side? All nice and spaced out. Cheers for the video as always, Nick.
They’re air exhaust vents. They’re placed over extractor fans from hospitality e.g. kitchens. The west is the main stand and, therefore, has more hospitality. So, it has more vents. The east stand has less hospitality and, therefore, fewer vents. The spacing, size and number of vents is dictated by the extractor fans, not by symmetry.
Sod all the nay sayers about line of sight, height, distance! I'm not an Everton fan, i'm a WBA for my sins but i have watched your videos since they started, i think what you do is fabulous and very informative. As somebody who likes modern architecture and especially football stadiums, your work is a great watch and always enjoy your commentary. Keep up the good work Mr Drone, its a pleasure
All the best Geoff, God Bless.
Good luck to Geoff with his operation. Stay strong lad, best of luck
I'm a red. But the new stadium is looking good. Brilliant footage Nick. Ynwa
Good Luck for tomorrow Geoff
Well done again Nick and thanks
You can’t please everyone about your can you see your drone , superb video
Nick and from a Fox 🦊 get well soon Geoff . Very exciting with key dates on schedule of other jobs too the stadium 👍 👌
Thanks Nick get well soon Geoff prayers for you mate
Fan from Atlanta, Georgia. I enjoy watching your videos and monitoring the progress of this project. Made my first pilgrimage to Goodison for the season opener last August and look forward to attending a match at Bramley Moore. Best of luck to Geoff with prayers and positive energy sent your way from across the pond. COYB!
11:44 I think david meant this part on the west barrel cladding onto the upper south windows. There are caps been put on and no space now. Top work again mate and hope the operation goes well tomorrow too for our fellow blue!!
Noonan: I did indeed. I thought the explanation was clear and that it wasn't necessary for a screenshot. Doh!
@davidbadcock2225 I think it was described perfectly....obvs hard to see on the small screen. Very impressive though isn't it. I remember nick missing the first roof lift and was gutted but getting the last barrel cladding lift is more impressive I'd say.
@@Noonan8nwales 🙂.
Wishing you all the best Geoff!👍🏻
Finally a stadia to put Anfield in the shade . Love from a true blue from Manchester⚽️
Can't wait to see it ready for a night game
Great video as usual. The stadium is looking amazing. Get well soon Geoff and a very speedy recovery 🙏. Best wishes, Graeme from Portsmouth. Play up Pompey.
Get well soon Geoff speedy recovery you will be back at goodison park soon 👍
Great video as always it is really looking a magnificent stadium
Good luck Geoff 👍
Great update as always Nick. I went passed our stadium earlier today. I had never noticed it before but the roof has a dome effect of some magnitude. I watch some lads on the east elevation at the section of the barrel cladding and the roof above the new shop entrance. It towered so much higher the lads standing there. Really impressive. Best wishes Geoff from the mighty blue army mate.
great vid Nick & im looking forward to seeing the water channel being dug out, many thanks.
Also echo your good luck message to Geoff. Hope it sll goes well mate. Watching these from the start will be a little added bonus. 🤞
Best wishes Jeff 💪💙
Looking great Nick
I think David means the front of the barrel cladding looking straight at the Nelson dock. It’s a new trim added to hide the metal work.
Stephen: I did indeed. I thought the explanation was clear and that it wasn't necessary for a screenshot. Doh!
@@davidbadcock2225 in sense it caps the barrel cladding
@@stephenlinden-wyatt-ys8vy Yes, it hides the very end part of the frame of the last column of barrel-cladding sections, bridging the gap that existed between the outer surface of the barrel sheets and the outer edge of the inset coving/fascia to the window.
Hi Nick, thank you for bringing so much pleasure over the past couple of years. Fantastic job. Could I ask please, are the Archibald Leitch latticework patterns on the brick cladding more visible with the naked eye than on video, because I can't see them? Would appreciate your take on this. Thanks.
Hi there Nick, I thought I’d make you aware that I’ve noticed a cap/edging which appears to be going on the top edge of the barrel cladding (starting from the north side of the West Terrace!) so that will make it definitely more weather resistant! 👍🏼
It’s looking fabulous isn’t it, counting the days now!
Keep up the great work! (Marie)
Good luck Geoff best of luck .. be ready for the kickoff mate UTFT’s
good vid on the channel keep up the good vid as always thanks for the vids you do thanks lee
I thought the perforations in the arch barrel cladding were for aesthetic light works, like what the Allianz Area in Munich does. I had no idea they were for exhaust vents.
The perforations across all of the barrel roof are to dissipate strong winds. The vents are the diamond shaped perforated sections.
Great video at always Nick. I wonder..when is Erverton play the first League match on the new stadium?
August 2025
Hope all goes well Geoff and wishing you a speedy recovery - UTFT! 💙👊
Get well soon Geoff. UTFT.
See you had your one day of summer on yesterdays vid Nick.....lol Neat Vid again, does it ever stop raining in UK, certainly not while I was there some weeks ago. 🤔
Best of luck to Geoff!
All the best geoff from the villa family
Can't wait 2 get in ther watch a game utft
Hi Nick , amazing video once again , on the south stand will they putting cladding on each side of the lower part where the glass is being finished 9:50 seconds in .
Yes, cladding will be added either side of the upper south stand concourse
@DuncTheBlue1878 thank you mate 👍
Angle: yes, there will be similar, but not identical, paneling going in on the ends of the Viewing Gallery. It will be the same anodised aluminium material but with no perforations. How large each panel will be remains to be seen.
Best of luck to Geoff for his procedure and swift recovery. From a blue in Philippines. I'm still convinced I can see Leitch design at either end of South stand above walkway. But I think it's just metalwork that will be covered. Anyone else thinking the same, or just me?😊
That’s not Archibald Leitch, it’s just standard construction design 👍🏻
Steven: if you want people to answer your question meaningfully, adding a timestamp and reference points at that time really helps them to see the exact feature to which you are referring.
I think you may be referring to the black steels that are at either end of the Viewing Gallery. They are merely an engineering necessity and crossed diagonal steels are a regular feature in many buildings. It's not unique to GP, BMD or anywhere else. A lot of bridges have them, for instance.
Anyway, you correctly predict one other aspect, which is that they will not be seen in future. Before too long they will be installing panels made of the same anodised aluminium as the barrel-cladding in a curved form, as the barrel-cladding, but without any of the perforations.
Hi nick I've noticed on a drone footage that there are 2 holes at the north stand and south stand of the pitch area where you would expect the goalposts to be
Yep, for the goal posts 👍🏻
Can you look at the solar panels on the South roof as it looks like they have done half already. It has gone on really fast and looks like will be done inside 2 weeks or so
Geoff you'll be good to go mate a few weeks in hossie then rehabilitation.... If ya not up to speed come the new season.. Then away to blythe spartens you go.. Take care my friend stay strong... The Everton family
Are there plans what to do with the old Everton Stadium?
“Goodison Legacy Project is a new mixed-use regeneration scheme consisting of ten new development blocks on the land currently occupied by the existing Goodison Park Stadium in Liverpool. The scheme includes affordable and social housing, a community health and medical centre, residential care, an enterprise building, a new education centre, offices, community-focused retail, three residential towers and a park.”
Question: Do you know exactly what is happening with the water channel i.e. how it will be constructed? They've obviously shored up the side nearest the stadium using rebar and spray-concrete, but is the same thing going to be done for the other 'wall' and the remainder of the floor of the channel? I know all will be revealed in good time and maybe I'm being a little impatient, but I just thought that I'd ask... Apologies too, if this has already been covered somewhere! UTFT 💙👊
Nice update Nick 👍🌟👌🏻I don’t understand the BOLT DIG , you say it’s to allow the water in, but I thought they were leave it as it is and maybe landscape 🌳🌲🌻it which could look really nice
Sparky 🍻🍻
Are you referring to the ‘big dig’ of the water channel?
@@DuncTheBlue1878 Yes I’m, I thought I heard Nick say Bolt Dig. But yes the Big Dig of the water channel, why not landscape that area or isn’t it allowed?
@@marksmith1944 The club have to create the water channel - it’s a requirement of the planning permission (a request from our friends at Historic England and the Environment Agency). I think it’ll be a great feature
@@DuncTheBlue1878 ok, thanks for info 👍👍
@@marksmith1944 You’re welcome
Hi Nick watching the videos the exits from the ground onto the dock road dont look large enough to cope with 50 thousand fans leaving at the same time also the north stand exit that comes onto the fan plaza looks very cramped between the stand exits and the new wall their building
I think there are 6 exits in the wall along Regent Road. The club have conducted modelling to show what will happen after the final whistle, and it’ll be fine - better than Goodison. Also, the club want as many fans to stay in the stadium as possible - to have a drink at the bar or eat in the many restaurants. So, not every single one of the 52,888 fans will be exiting at the same time
Hi Nick, great work as always and thanks for braving the rain lol. The scissor lift mention at 9 mins: does anyone know if the barrel cladding is still going to wrap around to that lower section as well (i.e. from where the guys were working, back to the stadium wall?) It was covered in the CGI mockups originally and I think look unfinished lso far. Get well soon Geoff.
At 09:37 - you can see the guys reworking the frame for the final dummy window.
The section to the right side of them (and the South West Corner too) will have a similar finish to the barrel cladding, but without any holes.
Thanks bud, good to read!
They’ve recently dug holes for the goal posts at either end, Mr D. Please can you take a closer look next time? Thanks 👍🏻
Dunc: interesting.
There are a few pieces of bespoke barrel cladding pieces to finish off at either end of the hospitality area on the south stand. If you remember the bookends analogy from a while back. Great stuff mate ✌️
Craig: Yes although they won't be quite the same as the barrel-cladding panels. They will comprise the same anodised aluminium material but without perforations and we will have to wait and see how compounded each section is.
I may have missed it in a previous video.. the btick building to the right what are they doing with that ?
Do you mean the Hydraulic Tower? If so, LoR handed that building over to EFC a while ago but the club haven’t announced what function it will provide. Probably a cafe and museum
Great thanks ... didny know if its EVERTON shop
@@pauldenny8397 The Everton store will be in the centre of the east stand (has a glass front with the black cladding around it)
Anyone know why the cladding on the east side doesn't have the symmetrical vents(?) like it does on the west side? All nice and spaced out. Cheers for the video as always, Nick.
They’re air exhaust vents. They’re placed over extractor fans from hospitality e.g. kitchens. The west is the main stand and, therefore, has more hospitality. So, it has more vents. The east stand has less hospitality and, therefore, fewer vents. The spacing, size and number of vents is dictated by the extractor fans, not by symmetry.
May we get the same barrel arch cladding for the sides of the observation room in the south stand? Makes sense how they’re exposed currently.
The renderings seem to show a different type of cladding to go on there. It looks like ether silver or white to match the cladding currently in place underneath the South Stand. It's got a square pattern on it, and not the perforations that are on the barrel roof cladding.
Lee: yes, there will be similar, but not identical, paneling going in on the ends of the Viewing Gallery. It will be the same anodised aluminium material but with no perforations. How large each panel will be remains to be seen.
I cant be the only one who shouts at their screen when you cant find the thing someone is pointing out 😂 great videos, watch every one.
You’re not alone 😆
Craig: I've got past the shouting at the screen stage as I'm resigned to Nick's frustrating habits, bless him. 😤 I just eye-roll and sigh and then wonder how many more 'thrashing-around-in-the-dark' comments it will induce. I thought the end-cap reference point was pretty 🤬 clear and it wouldn't need a screenshot. Wrong for the umpteenth time!
Also as Nick says himself, it is hard to pick things out on a screen the size he has. I've got a drone myself and totally get it.
@@craigshelley6759 Craig: that's not the issue in this case. The explanation should have been enough to know at what he needed to point his camera. What's done is done. I am sure nearly everyone else understood, even if Nick hadn't.
This size of the image on a screen covered with rain made it extra difficult
Don't know if this has been asked before, but are there any plans to put "EVERTON" in the North and South Stands windows...like the artist impressions of the finished Stadium ??? TIA
The early draft plans had ‘Everton’ in the south stand glass, but the club had to remove that from the final plans
@@DuncTheBlue1878 Thanks, I think it's a shame, would have been great for visitors coming in on Cruise Liners, knowing exactly whose stadium it was !!!
@@blueben99 Everyone will know that stadium is ours…and, if they don’t, someone will tell them. We are the famous EFC and we are respected wherever we may go
Can u do it where u can see Bramley and Goodison at the same time
Where about are the personalised stones located??
‘Everton Way’ will be between the south stand and Nelson Dock
I hope they make the roof light up a really powerfull blue over the whole front and back of the barrel cladding on the roof like in the clubs videos of the stadium like the Bayer arena goes red
Exactly, n I'm a red but your ground looks brilliant.
Efc88: yes, there will be blue mood lighting for the barrel. Some of the the lighting posts are to be seen on the concrete roof, equally spaced in an arc tracing the base of the barrel.
Nick, what a shame that you were thwarted by the rain. Joke warning: I thought one of my screens had gone on the blink when I saw your top.
1) I thought that my references for the 'Capping' were clear and it would seem that most people understood even if you hadn't grasped it quite. For both the North and South windows, they are installing coving or fascia, choose your terminology, in the form of 'grey' panels, from the glass itself outwards to meet the lip of the barrel-cladding, to the side, or the Standing-seam roof, at the top. However those panels, up until now, have finished short of covering the gap between them and the outer edge of the barrel-cladding, such that the sides of the barrel-cladding frames that hold them in place were still to be seen. But now they have started to cover that gap at the every ends with another small greyish-toned panel in the same mode as the panels that are the coving/fascia already described, thus making good the close finish.
2) Clearly they have at last set about finishing off the dummy window panelling at the extreme SE end of the Viewing Gallery, which was my intended leading Q you used. Maybe soon they will set about installing the end curvatures of the Viewing Gallery which, if still following the plan, will be more anodised aluminium sheeting, like the barrel-cladding, just without any perforations.
3) Although previously requested, I don't know whether you intended, before rain stopped play, to highlight the wind baffles that have started to be fitted on the first black post of the overhang at the E end of the North Stand?
4) Although previously requested, I don't know whether you intended, before rain stopped play, to highlight the balustrades being installed between the old Dock Granite Coping Stones and the pedestrian areas along the West Quay?
Is there a retractable roof ? If not Why?? if the plan is to host concerts etc.. surely it would have been better
Not worth the expense considering there will be a maximum of 4 concerts a year. Also, it’s a football stadium, not a tennis arena
I didn't think they would seed the pitch, I thought they would lay turf with grass already grown. Similar to what was done in Anfield after the concerts recently.
Maybe it's because there's no real deadline for the pitch to be ready or something??
Which would be the more premium solution?
Much better to seed rather than lay turf - pitch quality will be far better. Artificial grass also incorporated, like most PL grounds
@@DuncTheBlue1878 thanks for your information
I was just wondering the old pump station now renovated. What is it going to be used for ?
There doesn't seem to be a hard plan for it as yet. Not one that's been officially announced anyway. I've seen suggestions that it will be a Cafe and/or a museum, but no-one seems to know for absolutely certain. Pretty sure Nick mentioned recently after his stadium tour that it was actually handed over to EFC some time ago as well, so it would be interesting to know what they plan to do with it.
Marko: Colin has replied correctly. The outline plan was for it to be a combined cafe and museum (unspecific about EFC or BMD or both). EFC haven't committed yet to the specific final plan. Longer term it was mooted to also become the northern terminal of the planned Mersey Walk all the way from the National Gardens past the other three of the four graces and the old hexagonal Victorian Clock Tower.
A Wetherspoons 😀
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@@davidbadcock2225 David, a question about the roof - There's been a few videos recently with views from up there and I noticed that the outer edges of the standing seam sections look a little rough and uneven. Is the whole outer edge due to be capped with something (guttering or whatever) do you know? I don't imagine they'd leave it as it is, but it would seem a pretty big job to be finished off at this stage!
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A covering on the West fan plaza would completely ruin the aesthetics.
Best Wishes to Geoff.
Great video as always Nick, does anyone know how deep the western channel will be? I know that the other docks are around 8m.deep If Everton are going to develop the South dock into say a pleasure boating marina in the future the link would need to be at least 5m deep.
It's a bit of a fake water channel link tbh - the link will be blocked under the southern bridge and will not be navigable.
Shallow. 1.5 metres deep. Won’t be navigable.
@@DuncTheBlue1878 it looks a lot deeper than 1.5 meters.
@@richardhenshaw5660 Not finished yet. Where the channel bed is at the moment won’t be the final level
@@JayEFC1969 Hi, Jay, sorry to be pedantic but it was already 'blocked' before the project started. There are pipes, pumps and valves under the southern Isolation Bridge which is why there is that row of undisturbed Inspection Hatches along the Isolation Bridge.
Thought the cladding went under the south stand to Finnish it off
Rob: yes, there will be similar, but not identical, paneling going in on the ends of the Viewing Gallery. It will be the same anodised aluminium material but with no perforations. How large each panel will be remains to be seen.
I ask daft questions ya know were drone is i trust ya costs momey not t see it. Good.work dunno who the geoff is but all the best coyb
On the west stand barrel claddng the darker parts form an even pattern down the middle, however on the east stand they are even towards the south side but not the north. Why is this as my ocd kicks in whenever I see it😊
It was mentioned in an earlier video where David said they are exhaust ports and due to the differences in the stands, there are less ports in the east stand compared to the west.
If you actually watch this vid from 6:08 you’ll hear the answer
@@DuncTheBlue1878 thanks. I understand now, I just hope that it's not too noticeable from ground level as the lack of symmetry stands out (for me). But as Nick more or less said if that's all you have to worry about regarding the stadium then they've done a great job.....
Halty: I'm afraid that Dan Meis (DM) the architect decided to stomp over everyone's OCD for perfect symmetry. What I am writing won't change your outlook on life, nor this stadium, but this explanation of the architect's intention might at least allow you to see it a little differently.
DM wanted to allow for some aspects of obvious symmetry but not in every single aspect. New stadia have increasingly resorted to sterile, uniform, perfectly symmetrical, blob shapes, which then have no 'character' or alternative points of interest.
You wouldn't attend an art gallery if there was only one modern, cuboid art piece or one sculpture of a perfect sphere, especially if another gallery had exactly the same.
So, DM's intention was to make sure that, even though there is a unifying principle to the whole stadium, every stand was different in shape and nature and every view, internally and externally, being different too, by default.
One way of doing so was to reflect the compromise decisions that had to be made for engineering and location, but also to celebrate the engineering that has been undertaken (not quite as far fetched as Lloyds of London's inside out appearance). It's intended to provide a feeling of organic growth that you will see in older stadiums, such as GP, where every stand is different.
Anyway, your OCD plight is definitely not singular and your comment is one that has been made lots of times but i hope that you can at leas understand the intention and grow accustomed to it, even if it's not a natural bed for you to lie in.
@@davidbadcock2225 that's me told 😊. Seriously though thanks for that explanation. I guess that answers my other question, why is the North Stand not the same size as the South, to gain additional capacity. Anyhow, I can't wait to be sat in there, the only problem is which stand should I choose....
At 3.48, SW corner of the waterway it looks like the old dock wall has collapsed. Maybe wrong but it looks iffy!
That section will likely get the waterproof cement sprayed onto it, as the rest has, I think that it is just the rough finish before LoR cement over it, and screed it to be flat.
A bit ‘iffy’ especially as the wall is a grade II listed building 😬Darren is right, waterproof cement will be added, they just needed to clear the sand away from that corner
Olly: what you have just noticed is the one of the old Dock Gates that would have swung out to cover half the gap to the other side. There is another Dock gate buried on the other side. There is another pair at the Northern end too. It will be being left as it is, required by the Heritage Stakeholders. It will be clearer when they have cleared away all the sand off it due to it having remained buried since very early on in the whole project.
Contrary to what others are stating here, it will not have waterproof concrete applied to it and neither will there be a concrete base applied to the water channel in front of it.
@@DarrenCowzer-cx7ot Darren: before 'fake news' proliferates, may I ask you to see my other comment to Olly here?
@@DuncTheBlue1878 Dunc: how are you doing? Well, I hope. May I ask you to see my other comment to Olly here?
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Must be a red calling the stadium shite no need things have just moved on from the old disjointed looking grounds and did mention a year ago about the lack of anything blue on the stadium facade the heritage people will not allow it has to be in keeping with the other brickwork buildings in the area. I have been told did ask the question myself about the lack of Everton badge or EFC on the seating area, but I think it was David Babcock, who told me it’s just called the blue wall, it’s grown on me now cheers up the toffees
What happens 19th august my birthday
Some people just cannot stop moaning. He is pro. Leave him alone,.
Jealousy
A lack of the colour blue on outside of stadium
Yeah there is a distinct lack of blue externally, but I think this will mostly be addressed by the decorative stuff yet to be added, like flags and banners, etc. Goodison is predominantly grey outside aside from the wraparound timelines and some blue painted brickwork, oddly enough. There'll be no doubt whose home ground it is when it's finished, I reckon.
Blue lights will be added eventually and a few more bits and bobs but I think the inside of the ground makes up for it to be honest
It was something to do with a heritage committee, it just wasnt allowed to put much of blue color on clading or other materials. Blue lighting on some areas off the stadium will have to do.
James: broadly-speaking the other replies have covered the topic. However, there are plenty of potential branding opportunities identified in the approved plans from September, 2020, and the list is quite long (if you want to know more, then let me know). That said, the eventual finish will depend on the results of the naming rights project being undertaken by a US Specialist. LoR will not be involved in any of the customisation process, which will be undertaken by EFC through separate sub-contracts, much as they've done at GP over the years.
Can you tell us when the mother ship leaves her docking station which end is the front, is it the south end or the north and will it fly helicopter style I.e. slightly nose down.
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58 years an Evertonian
Tamworth Staffordshire 😂
South end is the front. I thought that was obvious. It’ll fly Millennium Falcon style 🤘🏻
Looks shite to me...more like a airport terminal....all these new stadiums have no character whatsoever anymore.
Yeah right…..
@@johnrimmer5955 shite
@@stevencardwell5575 An objective view from a kopite there.....
@colingillbanks4022 I'm not saying it is shite...just that I don't like the look of it.
@@stevencardwell5575 🤷♂️
Anyone know why the cladding on the east side doesn't have the symmetrical vents(?) like it does on the west side? All nice and spaced out. Cheers for the video as always, Nick.
They’re air exhaust vents. They’re placed over extractor fans from hospitality e.g. kitchens. The west is the main stand and, therefore, has more hospitality. So, it has more vents. The east stand has less hospitality and, therefore, fewer vents. The spacing, size and number of vents is dictated by the extractor fans, not by symmetry.
@@DuncTheBlue1878 cheers for confirming!