Artist’s impression of Everton’s new stadium
Laing O’Rourke has been named as preferred bidder on Everton Football Club’s new 52,000-capacity stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock on Liverpool’s waterfront.
The contractor is due to sign a pre-construction services agreement (PCSA) for a design and build contract following a competitive procurement process.
In December 2019, Everton revealed its final stadium designs ahead of the submission of a detailed planning application, which is expected to be determined by Liverpool City Council in the summer of 2020.
Work on the new stadium is expected to start later this year, subject to planning consent, and is expected to take three years.
Designed by MEIS architects, the stadium’s brick base reflects Goodison Park’s famous Archibald Leitch lattice work, while the roof structure is made from steel and glass giving the stadium a modern finish.
The proposed waterfront stadium comprises four stands, including a large, steep ‘home end’ which will house 13,000 Evertonians.
Everton’s plans for the new stadium, which will sit within Peel L&P’s Liverpool Waters site.
Laing O’Rourke director, Paul McNerney said: “Laing O’Rourke has a long track record of delivering sport stadia, utilising our unique engineering and manufacturing capabilities, all of which will now underpin this scheme.
“Our local team, supply chain and consultant partners have worked with us across many major schemes in Liverpool including Liverpool ONE, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.”
Everton chief executive professor Denise Barrett-Baxendale said: “Appointing Laing O’Rourke is another important step towards delivering a new world-class waterfront stadium for Everton.
“We are partnering with an organisation who bring a wealth of experience and a track-record of quality, sustainability and global delivery, including major investment projects right here in Liverpool.
“There is still a lot of work to do on this project. Working alongside colleagues at Laing O’Rourke we will develop our construction programme, while at the same time continuing to engage with our supporters on a number of matters as we await our planning application to be determined by Liverpool City Council.”
