Renovation of the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. External Supervision of the Structural Project of the Rehabilitation, Expansion and Exterior Works. New Structure of Roofs and Exteriors

Abstract

This article sets out the methodology followed in the external supervision of the structural project for the new roof and exterior buildings of the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, located in Madrid (Spain), and the rehabilitation of the existing structures and foundations. The work began in 2019 and ended 2023, therefore a comprehensive and complete description would require an extension far beyond the limits of this article. On the other hand, the project is integrated into a set of communications where the authors of the project and the various collaborating engineering firms describe in detail the approach, the structural typology, the design of elements, the construction details and the execution process of the different subprojects that make up this great project. It is clear that it is not up to us to replicate these expositions. For these reasons, this article is limited, first of all, to certain generic issues, such as the justification of the basic regulations of the structural project, and the exposition of certain project bases, especially relevant due to their peculiarity and their significance in different subprojects. This is done without exhausting the extensive repertoire of related issues, which, as cited above, would render this article disproportionate long. Secondly, the philosophy followed in this supervision is described, based on trying to add value to the project, specifically optimizing its reliability, but without slowing down the vast work of its development, which had to be carried out without delaying the chronology of the work. In this sense, a few (very) concrete examples are provided, always with a non-invasive character of the role that corresponds to the authors of the project and the group of their collaborators.