By allocating one out of every three euros spent on the project of New Mestallahe Valencia may change its current stadium, the oldest of First Division, and take a Mestalla “fixed, modern, adequate to obligations UEFA and has the possibility to host events 24/7″ given the Nou Mestalla Execution plan, which has “many structural deficiencies”.
This is one of several conclusions obtained from a round table in which prominent economists, engineers and architects participated, such as the director of Higher Technical School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV)Ivan Cabrera; the doctor of engineering and professor at UPV, Ernesto Colomer; the member of the Advisory Council of the Master’s Degree in Concrete Engineering at UPV, Rafael Rueda, and the professor of Financial and Tax Law at the University of Valencia, Jorge Milla.
It all starts because the Nou Mestalla project, “at the moment, is not economically viable for the club”, but not only economically, but also because technically what was presented had “many shortcomings.”
“In the new stadium project there is no specific solution for the roof,” highlighted Rueda, who assured that “there is extensive damage to all the structural elements” and, in addition, the 2020 report on the structure “is not accepted”, because since then the Nou Mestalla has stopped for almost five years.
“The various deficiencies of the structure are a ticking time bomb for the durability of the stadium,” asserted the engineer, who said that the Implementation project “only establishes an action plan for the repair of minor pathologies”, when “in all structural elements there is extensive damage, in stands, slabs, water filtration, communication cores …”.
For all these reasons, this round table was brought together by the collective Last nights in Mestalla (ÚvaM) proposes to reform the old Mestalla, a rehabilitation that will cost “more than one hundred million euros” and will also allow the Mestalla to take advantage of a commercial area of 10,000 square meters “It just needs to be split.”
Taught by Ernesto Colomer, doctor of engineering and professor at UPV The reform “is technically viable, because the three rings are independent of each other and that facilitates their reform,” but “you also don’t have to change everything at once, but since we are independent it can be a progressive reform depending on the economic capacity that the club has at all times.”
This plan has one goal and it is none other than to avoid the Nou Mestalla project, which Valencia announced just a few weeks ago that it could be buried until the debt exceeds 500 milliondespite the fact that the club it has the most problems with at the moment is in the league table, where it is nineteenth and three points away from relegation.
Source: La Verdad
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