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AFRICA
CAMEROON
STADIUM OMNISPORT ROUMDÉ ADJA
IN CAMEROON
PROJECT IN CAMEROON INVOLVED SEVERAL COMPLEMENTARY AREAS OF THE MOTA‐ENGIL GROUP.
CAMEROON
S eeking to provide Garoua with adequate infrastructure to host
football matches during the final phase of the Africa Cup of Nations
(CAN) to be held in Cameroon, as well as to obtain future benefits from this new sports and hotel infrastructure, the renovation of Omnisport Roumdé Adja stadium is underway, under the responsibility of Mota‐Engil Africa.
Since the CAN is a tournament organised by CAF (Confederation of African Football) and the reference conditions are the same as those internationally required by FIFA, the renovation has been designed to meet these requirements, including the need
to increase the stadium’s capacity from fifteen to twenty thousand seats and the requirement to cover five thousand of these seats, as well as building a complementary area of support infrastructures for logistics, athletes, media, public, etc.
Built in the 1970s, the stadium was badly deteriorated and the functionality was obsolete. However, the form and materials as constructed (predominantly reinforced concrete), maintained their original mechanical characteristics, and thus part of the structure was maintained, and the new structures were built completely independently.
The stadium has two central stands and two on the tops separated by the access
to the playing field, but maintaining a continuous elliptical shape and an athletic track between the stands and the grass football pitch. The five thousand new seats will be distributed in two new zones, each with about twenty‐five hundred seats, to be added to the north/south stands.
The existing spaces under the main stand did not meet the current requirements, so a new building was built behind the main stand. This new building was designed
to articulate with the existing stand, to support the new metallic roofing and also to provide the stadium with several spaces to support its operation.
In the support spaces for the stadium’s operation we find, for example, a
police station, a medical centre, an amphitheatre, media and interview rooms, accreditation spaces, mixed areas, an area for flash interviews,
bars, space for staff and organisation of competitions, technical areas, shower rooms, among others. This is one of the characteristics of a stadium, the meeting of completely different services in the same building, making this type of project quite interesting.
In the remaining stands, services to the general public, infirmary, access control, bars and sanitary facilities were installed.
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