Dresden – It is the first new athletics stadium to be built in Germany in ten years: the Heinz Steyer Stadium renovation project in Dresden. But now the ambitious project is in danger of getting out of hand. A fatal planning mishap caused a stir in Dresden City Hall…
Only last Thursday had the city council approved a four-million-financial look-up due to cost increases in the stadium renovation. The construction costs have risen from the original 32 million euros to 47 million in the meantime. But what is now looming due to an embarrassing planning error is likely to exceed everything.
As can be seen from an internal letter circulating between the town hall, the construction company Zech and the project management company STESAD, the planners responsible for the stadium conversion simply “forgot” the complete digital connection.
According to a “list of horrors” (available to BILD), the digitization technology for the central technical and control room, the connection for TV broadcasts, distance and time measurement systems, the locking and access concept, the security and police network, the mobile communications and even for stadium sound reinforcement.
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IT experts have listed a total of 18 so-called requirement clusters that are missing and without which the stadium as a multifunctional arena cannot go into operation.
Experts put the additional costs at at least another four million euros. This would break the project’s 50 million mark. Not to mention the impending delay.
Because the original schedule is already obsolete. Nothing will come of the opening with the 2024 finals. Now even those “Finals” of the German track and field athletes 2025 in danger in the then new stadium. Because in order to retrofit the missing technology, concrete floors have to be torn up again, the interior has to be dug up and walls in stadium areas that have already been completed have to be broken through.
“It is unclear whether the technology was deliberately ‘forgotten’ in order to lower the supposed construction costs and thus get the project through the city council, or whether someone actually slept,” said a high-ranking city hall employee to BILD. The main responsibility, however, is the former Dresden finance and sports mayor, Peter Lames (59, SPD).
BILD has asked Lames’ successor, Jan Donhauser (54, CDU), and those responsible for the city for a statement on the effects of the planning gap, but has not received any information so far.
2023-07-14 05:50:22
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