Since 2008 the reconstruction of the Olympic stadium in Kiev for the UEFA European Football Championship is proceeding. It will get a spoked wheel-roof with 560 cone tops

The renewed stadium offers 69.000 seats. Hence it is the biggest and most important venue of the EM in the hosting countries Poland and Ukraine.
Five EM-games and the final match are scheduled there.

or the roof-structure a PTFE-covered glass fabric with high translucency will be used.The approximately 45.000 m² roof-area is divided into 80 single panels, each covered with eight cone tops.

structure
Elevated spoked wheel with two circumferential compression rings, in-between 80 cable girders. The lower cable level carries 80 membrane-panels, each with eight.

formTL
Method Statement and design of the jacking devices for up to 6000 kN pretension force;
structural design and workshop drawings membrane

architect
gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, Hamburg

structural design
SBP bis Lph 4 tw. 5

steel
Master Profi Ukraine

cables
Bridon

GU Membrane/cable installation
Hightex

published
espazio Magazine 2012_6
sb 2/2012
DBZ Deutsche Bauzeitung
STADIEN | 2012

photos
Stelmach Oleg

membrane
Verseidag B 18089

cables
Bridon International