Burgess shows off how the new Bernabéu lawn is going

He Santiago Bernabeu follow her fervent remodeling, on the way to becoming a benchmark stadium for the technological forefront worldwide. This morning the director of supervision of the playing fields, Paul Burgess, published on his social networks some images on how the works are progressing on the surface.

“It's time to turn this back into a soccer field, so I'll be a little busy for the next few weeks.”, wrote. In them it can be seen how a huge tube crosses the entire playing field below.

A “greenhouse cave” and a retractable lawn

But that will not be the only novelty of the new Madrid rug. The grass will be retractable, resting on eight plates that will allow the playing field to be removed to an isolated space on the west side, so that they can be made musical events or of another nature without it being damaged.

The complexity of the works will make them be delayed for a year, but the grass will move across rails, being distributed on plates and stacking in what has been called “greenhouse cave”, an underground system that will maintain the lawn at all times intact, at an ideal temperature and with mechanized spraying.

Other clubs already have similar systems

Real Madrid seeks to perfect a technique that other clubs in Europe have already implemented. He TottenhamFor example, it has a lawn distributed in three sections that can also be removed via a rail system. This allows clubs to have a multipurpose field without risking green.

This technique also has the Schalke 04, whose playing field is made up of a 10,000-ton plate that it takes 10-12 hours to withdraw. Everything, to obtain a lawn “of removable and put” worthy of the vanguard of soccer.