AS Roma’s stadium development schedule continues to advance towards an official ground breaking on the new Stadio della Roma project in 2015 with the news this week that geotechnical surveys are underway on the construction site.
A team of experts from Geores, one of Italy’s leading companies in the geotechnical space, arrived at the Tor di Valle site this week to begin drilling into the subsoil upon which the new stadium and business park, led by Euronova, will be built.
The work, essential practice on construction projects of this size, is likely to continue on site for the next three weeks and demonstrates clear progress being made on one of the football world’s most highly-anticipated new stadium developments.
“Understanding the subsoil is absolutely indispensable for the realisation of a civil engineering project as big as a stadium,” insists Claudio Vercelli, Director General of Geores. “It’s important because understanding the subsoil means understanding the characteristics of the site where the construction will be built. On the basis of the characteristics that we’re establishing through the initial drilling, the correct parameters will be given to the structural engineers tasked with setting the design and dimensions of the build – in this case, the structure that will support the stadium.
“It will take us just over thirty days to do the probing. The surveys are very accurate and need to be carried out deep underground to be able to properly understand the characteristics of the subsoil. After that, we’ll move to a laboratory.
“We’re expecting to find earth that is very suitable for the construction of a stadium. We know the earth here as we’ve already carried out surveys on this site and on nearby sites in recent years, so we’re already aware of the geological and geotechnical characteristics. Our task here is to obtain data to be used in calculations when setting the dimensions of the structures. In simple terms, we're preparing a technical data sheet to expand on the data we already possess, which tells us that the soil is suitable for the construction of the stadium.
“I’ve seen the architectural plans for the stadium. It will be a great stadium, both from an aesthetic point of view and in terms of its functionality. It won’t just be a stadium either - around the facility itself there will be other buildings serving various purposes.”