Nuts and bolts
How much concrete was used building the Allianz Arena? What pressure does it take to inflate the panels? How big are the showers? Here you can find all the official statistics from A to Z about the Allianz Arena. A real tresure trove for statisticians, construction experts and those who might want to be.
Stadium and Esplanade structure
- Concrete used in stadium: approx. 120,000 m3
- Steel used in stadium: approx. 22,000 t
- Foundations: 180 t, size of a family house, loading up to 1,500 t
- 350 inclined supporting pillars, 50 to each level
- Supporting pillars (cross-section: 65 cm, length: 6 m) have maximum bearing load of 10,000 kN (~1,000 t)
- 8 stairwells, 15 cascade stairways at intervals of 45 m
- External façade (under inflated panels):
- Area: approx. 12,000 m², glazed area: approx. 5,000 m²
- Internal façade (Business Club):
- Area. approx. 350 m², glazed area approx. 300 m²
- Executive boxes:
- Area: approx. 3,000 m2, glazed area: approx. 2,000 m2
- Tiers:
- 2,446 pre-cast elements
- 3,985 stair elements laid on terraces
- 132, 000 drill holes for the 66,000 seats
- Esplanade (4 car parks each on 4 levels):
- Frame construction (supports and bracing beams)
- Floor area: 270,000 m²
- Concrete: 85.000 m³
- Steel: 14.000 t
- Structural steel: 1.400 t
- Promenade (asphalted main connecting level)
- Area: 28,000 m² floor area with 8,50 m ceilings
- 1,033 pre-cast sections on 128 pillars and 88 load bearing points
- External circumference: approx. 1,200 m
Façade
- 2,874 rhomboidal inflated ETFE foil panels form the 66,500 m² roof and façade
- Biggest membrane shell in the world
- Data on the ETFE foil (Ethylene Tetrafluoro-ethylene):
- Thickness: 0.2 mm
- Weight: 350 g/ m²
- Longitudinal/transverse tensile strength: 52/52 N/mm²
- Longitudinal/transverse tensile stress at 10% elongation: 21/21 N/mm²
- Longitudinal/transverse elongation at breaking point: 600/600 %
- UV permability: 95%
- Visible light permability: 93%
- Colour: transparent (roof area), translucent white (rest of façade)
- 1,380 non-standard panels:
- Total area: 7.6 to 40.7 m²
- Length: approx 3 to 10 m
- maximum width: 1.9 to approx. 4.6 m
- Maximum diagonal length: approx 17 m
- Fans keep the panels inflated at a constant pressure of 0.035 bar (maximum possible pressure 0.08 bar)
- In case of snowfall, 12 pressure-monitoring points ensure the correct pressure adjustments to allow for snow up to 1.6 m.
- Lifespan approx 25 years, non-flammable, exceptionally resistant to heat and cold, self-cleans with rain
- 19 panels at the 51.41 m level can be opened to ensure proper ventilation.
- Each of these special hydraulic panels can carry up to 8 t and has a wind pressure resistance of 22 t
- The panels are non-loadbearing
Façade lighting
- 1,056 (of 2,760) illuminated panels (in white, red or blue)
- Total area lit: 25,500 m²
- 4,250 individual lights
- Each panel has 4 identical lights (installed in pairs between two lens shaped panels)
- 25,344 long-life fluorescent tubes with a lifespan of 8,000 hours
- Total power: approx. 1.47 MW
- Each 3.5 m long lamp unit contains 6 long-life fluorescent tubes (58W) and 3 starters
- Red, blue and transparent lenses in each unit allow colour changes
- An asymmetric parabolic mirror ensures uniform illumination of each panel - max. luminance 3000 cd/m²
- Consumption when fully lit: 506 KWh
- Façade lighting required 100 km cabling
- Electricity for the stadium is supplied by 5 transformers
- Lighting changes its colour extend over two minutes to avoid incidents on the motorway
- Allianz Arena logo mounted on north and south sides:
- 12 blue and white illuminated letters each weighing 250-500 kg
- Composition: steel, tin, aluminium, transparent plastic
- Largest LED display in Europe (100,000 individual LEDs)
Roof Structure
- Total area: 38.000 m²
- Primary roof structure (60%):
- 48 radial main beams, approx 65 m long and weighing up to 106 t
- Total of 5,300 t S355 steel
- Secondary roof structure (cross beams, 40%)
- Forms a rhomboidal ‘steel net’ within which the panels are supported
- In the form of rectangular tubing 180 mm x 180 mm x 5-16 mm
- Total of 3,400 t S355 steel
- 50 m high free floating construction
- Maximum load bearing stress, own weight plus full load of snow at centre: 5,000 kN (~ 500 t)
- Maximum load bearing stress at edge: 3,300 kN (~ 300 t)
- Deflection under load at edge with full snow load and wind: 55 cm
- Roof panels have a transparent inner surface
- Retractable internal roof (blind and theatre usage) opened and closed by 51 electric motors
Pitch
- Dimensions: Playing surface 68 m x 105 m, total surface 72 m x 111 m, surface area of 8,000 m²
- Dimensions per lawn-roll: 2.2 m x 15 m
- Weight per lawn-roll: 1.2 t
- Depth per lawn-roll: 30 mm thick "Power Turf"
- Time required: 20 truckloads delivered every hour, on the hour, nine deliveries per day, total approximately two-and-a-half days
- Playing surface: 0.5 % incline towards centre
- Growth: Firm roots in 14 days, initial roots after two days, immediately playable
- Bedding layer: 30-70 cm gravel forming a 4,500 m² frost-free gravel bedding
- Foundations: 10 cm drainage layer (sand), heating pipes, 13 cm lower turf-bearing layer, 9 cm upper turf-bearing layer
- Drainage (seepage pipes): 14 drains each measuring 111 m, 100 mm diameter, total length two kilometres
- Under-soil heating: Pipes 3.2 cm diameter, total length 27 kilometres, three isolated tubes per distributor, manual and automatic temperature control range 35-50 °C, pressure at 1 bar
Hydraulic Pitch Entrance
- Arched zinc galvanised steel construction
- Operation: toggle lever mechanism – Opening travel: 2,300 mm in 11 seconds
- Width at Pitch: 2.50 m
- Height at Pitch: 2.10 m
- Controlled by ‘dead mans handle’ and warning lights in players tunnel
- Additional: emergency exits (swing door) and buffers
Dressing Rooms
- Dressing rooms: 65.5 m²
- Massage room: 40.5 m²
- Medical treatment room: 21 m²
- Equipment room: 4.7 m²
- Baths: 2.08 m x 5.16 m x 1 m
- Warm-up area: approx. 110 m2
- Showers: 22 m²
- Coaches' dressing rooms: 40 m²
- Number of lockers: 22
- Number of showers: 12
Media and executive boxes
- 106 boxes of varying sizes (up to 32 seats ; altogether 1374 seats )
- Television coverage of “Fan-TV”
- Up-to-date match statistics for every game
- Arena data(e.g. lawn temperature etc.)
- Wireless and telephone access points
- Seats for the press (lower tier) and 350 in the “press-club”
- 5 TV-studios in media area
- Wireless and phone access throughout (including Mixed Zone and tunnel)
- During “Bundesliga”-matches press located at 176 seats (table), 98 (no table) and 90 commentator seats
- During the World Cup 2006: 1,000 (table) , 1,000 (no table) in lower tier ; 600 commentator seats in upper tier
Stadium Access and the ArenaCard
- Five entrance areas on level 2 ( 4 in the south and 1 in the north )
- 54 ticket counters ( 48 ticket-canyons in the south and 6 in the north ), marked with balloons
- 130 turnstiles and card-readers, including 20 VIP turnstiles and disabled access points
- 80 hand-held card readers
- Cashless payment system integral to each individual ticket
- ArenaCard used for ticketing, shops, catering and parking
- 54 ticket counters in the ticket-canyons, over 200 ticket counters in the stadium
- 30 ArenaCard top-up points
- Approx.150 roving sales assistants
IT Network and Telephony
- Double safety feed connected to different access points (normal access plus back-up access)
- Network access up to 99.99 % (FIFA requirement) = 52 minutes downtime/year
- One netwoerk for all services (telephone, server, video etc.)
- 6,000 ports in the network
- Redundant (high availabaility) cabling
- Triple structure (primary, secondary and tertiary)
- Network access up to 99.99 % (FIFA requirement) = 6 minutes downtime/year
- All services via cable access
- Permanent cabling throughout
- Two distributor areas (al with back-up) in the Arena East and West
- Services available vie the Arena network:
- Voice over IP telephony
- Ticket counter system & cashless system
- Stadium access and ticketing
- Car parking
- Video and in house technology
- Other IP services for box holders and third parties
- Almost total WiFi coverage with standards a/b/g
Video Walls
- Mounted centrally in North and South Stands above the goals at 7° to vertical
- Resolution: 288 x 512 pixels
- Active matrix display area: 7.2 m x 12.8 m = 92.16 m² (total area: 100 m²)
- Picture format: approx.16:9
- Pixel size: 25 mm/12,5 virtual
- Pixel composition: 2 red, 1 true green, 1 blue LED
- Total number pixels: 147,456
- Total number LEDs: 589,824
- Pixels per module: 32 x 64
- Module: 800 mm x 1600 mm
- Total number modules: 72
- Module weight: 66 kg
- Total weight: 4,752 kg
- Gesamtgewicht mit Aufhängung: 13,2 t
- Module housing: Aluminium
- Brilliance (max.): approx. 6,200 cd/m²
- Horizontal sight angle: 150°
- Vertical sight angle: 70°
- Colour graduations: 6.8 billion
- Picture refresh rate: 240/960 Hz
- Max. electrical load: 67 KW
- Average load: 33 KW
- plus 190 monitors in the whole Allianz Arena
Acoustics
- System: digital networked signal processors
- Remote controlled and monitored high-power amplifier
- Specially manufactured Electro-Voice loudspeaker system
- Loudspeakers mounted in colour matched steel frames at 42 m
- 24 loudspeaker clusters, 6 speakers per cluster and 10 further individually mounted units
- 154 units including 72 sub-woofers
- Each cluster weighs around 1 t
- Operation: Remote amplifier (Electro-Voice) in 14 switch cabinets in stadium roof
- Total amplifier output: approx. 158,000 W
- Individual climate control, monitoring and surge protection in all cabinets
- Each cabinet has an automatic fire-extinguishing system
- ProMatrix System control technology from Dynacord
- High-powered amplifiers in 7 technical control centres with a total output of approx. 129,000 W
- Main control centre on Level 7, 21 control centre stations
- 21 control centre stations linked by a fibre-optic network with multiple redundancy
Floodlighting
- Philips: Arena Vision, MVF 403
- 10 cross-beams with catwalks
- 232 floodlights at a height of 45 m
- Total power: 464 KW/h
- Brilliance: 1,000 – 1,500 Lux
Electrical Data
- Available power: 12 MW from two separate sub-stations
- Additional battery storage for all safety, sound and control systems
- Power and data distribution: approx. 4,000,000 cables
- Switching cabinets: assembled at approx. 750 m
- Total of approx. 68,000 lighting units provide atmosphere and safety
- Main system: further approx. 20,000 centrally controlled data points (nodes)
Heating, Air-conditioning, Ventilation, Sanitation (HKLS)
- Number of ventilation units: 110
- Air replacement in car park: 5.4 million m³/h
- Air replacement in stadium: 1.3 million m³/h (max. 1.7 million)
- HKLS control: 7,000 data points monitored by control centre
- Cooling capacity: 3.2 MW provided by 1,000 PKW air-conditioning system
- Heating capacity: 5.2 MW, i.e. as much as 500 family houses
- 35,000 m C-steel duct (DN 350)
- 3,600 m NIRO ducts
- 36,000 m additional cast, composite, synthetic and other ducts.
- 100,000 m³ square sheet conduits
- 10,000 m round sheet conduits
Fire Prevention and Safety
- 22,000 sprinklers
- 300 dry/wet risers
- 4,600 fire detectors
- Approx. 35,000 linear fire detectors
- Alarm system: 6,200 loudspeakers
- Access system: 110 turnstiles, fixed and mobile card readers
- Surveillance system: 90 recording cameras providing court-admissible footage
- Data transport: approx. 800,000 m fibre optic cable
Service for Handicapped persons
- 130 parking spaces for people with disabilities are located on level 3 of garage P1. (Approaching P1 from the public roads is signed) and these parking spaces are closest to the Arena. From this point wheelchair users have unhindered access to their viewing position
- With the relevant organisers permission wheelchair users may make use of disabled access to staircases TK 2 and TK 3 (access via S0/S1). Lifts available here for Promenade level 2. Special buses available for the return journey.
- People with severe disabilities are transferred to elevators on level 0 (taking them to their seats) by special-purpose vehicles.
- Whether a disabled person ID is sufficient and whether people with disabilities can park free of charge has yet to be resolved
- There is also an unhindered route from the underground station to the Arena. A shuttle service from the the Fröttmaning underground station to the stadium will not be in place at the start of the season in August 2005. Approximately 400 superior seats have been allocated for about 200 wheelchair users and their companions on the long sides of the Arena on the top rows of the lower tier, allowing room for manoeuvring wheelchairs.
- The entire level 2 can also be declared as “barrier-less” for people with disabilities. This level includes kiosks, support services for handicapped people and specially equipped toilets. Specially reserved lifts are available for changing levels in the North and South stands
- At the start of the 2005/ 6 Bundesliga season mobile headsets for match commentaries will be tested.
