mageba – Project information Grand Stade des Lumières, Lyon (France) Project description mageba scope Highlights & facts The Stade des Lumières is 58,000-seat 16 RESTON®SPHERICAL bearings play a key stadium that is being built in the city of role in supporting the stadium’s enormous mageba products: Lyon in south-eastern France. The stadium roof, four at each side of the playing field. Type: RESTON®SPHERICAL will be the new home of the football club These are designed to carry weight forces bearings Olympique Lyonnais, replacing its cur- of up to 18,200 kN, and all are equipped Features: Uplift protection, rent stadium, Stade de Gerland, in 2015. with uplift clamps to enable them to re- ROBO®SLIDE material, Among its first special uses will be as one sist uplift forces of up to 2000 kN that “upside down” design of the venues for the staging of the 2016 might arise on exceptional occasions due Installation: 2014 UEFA European football championship, to strong winds. All of the bearings are of Structure: which is being hosted by France. the guided sliding type (type KE), allowing City: Lyon The stadium’s most notable feature is its sliding movements of up to +/- 210 mm Country: France translucent roof, which, with its large sur- along one horizontal axis while resisting Completed: 2015 transverse forces of up to 3000 kN. Worthy face area, must be constructed to resist Type: Football stadium of particular note is the fact that the bear- the enormous uplift forces that can be Capacity: 58,000 ings were designed to be installed “upside generated by strong wind forces. Architect: Populous down”, with their long sliding plates con- Contractor: VINCI nected to the large, robust substructure rather than to the roof. The stadium is the home of Olympique Lyonnais, the Assembly of a typical RESTON®SPHERICAL bearing, Contrary to most applications, the bearings are desig- football team of the city of Lyon with its calotte’s flat surface on top ned to be installed “upside down” France © 2012 Google Switzerland www.mageba.ch Version 2014.10 CH-EN ©mageba mageba sa - Solistrasse 68 - 8180 Bülach - Switzerland - T +41 44 872 40 50 - [email protected].