Arena Events Group has won a £11.5m contract with E20 Stadium LLP, owners of London Stadium, to develop new seating systems in the north and south of the stadium.
The contract will deliver two new lower tier stands bringing 6,000 fans up to four meters closer to the pitch than the current system allows. The designs will create a traditional “kop” feel to the seating arrangement for pitch-based events, such as football, helping to enhance the match-day experience for fans. The system will also allow for faster seat moves between events to help reduce costs in the UK’s largest multi-use stadium.
This comes following a period of design development to inform the brief between E20 and West Ham United. Initial designs were presented to the Club’s Official Supporters’ Board in February 2019, and Arena, E20 and West Ham United will be consulting with them again later this month to help inform the more detailed designs with the aim of installing the seats this summer.
Lyn Garner, Chief Executive of London Legacy Development Corporation, commented: “We are delighted to have appointed Arena and look forward to working with them and West Ham United over the coming months. Our investment in the new stands will improve fans’ matchday experience and deliver significant efficiencies to the running of London Stadium.”
Greg Lawless, CEO of Arena Group commented: “We are pleased to be entering into a long-term agreement with E20 to provide a truly flexible seating solution that enhances the legacy of the London Stadium. Yet again this shows the strength of our innovation and project management in delivering a value-enhancing solution to our customers.”
How can it be up to four meters?? Surely it should be an exact figure?? Have they got the calculations so wrong from a faulty ruler and measuring tape??
The seats in the centre of the current configuration will move forward 4m, those on the sides will move forward less as they are already nearer the pitch!
Why don’t they have those portable seating/covers for the manager on the touch line one that can be carried out and seat 4 or 5 people. It looks daft when the manager is standing there for 90 minutes with no one to talk to…..
The remaking 54000 fans will be sponsored by Specsavers
This has just popped up in my Google folder feed and I’m not a Hammer. Really feel for you guys, you were sold a dream and its fallen way short. The football world have learnt a match day isn’t just about a stadium it’s about what surrounds it – working class history and tradition, not expensive shopping centres where blokes can’t be blokes. Will be crazy when The London Stadium is hosting Championship games.
WHU put the proposals before the SOB, I would have thought the season tixket holders in the relevant stands would have been pertinent
No use in the Championship