Environmental projects at Nuremberg stadium

The modernized 45,500-seater Franken Stadium in Nuremberg is one of the venues that will play host to the FIFA World Cup 2006. In line with the Green Goal initiative launched by FIFA and the Organizing Committee (OC), the stadium has introduced a number of environmental features, focusing on water saving and waste reduction.

Modernization of Nuremberg’s stadium, home to FC Nuremberg of the Bundesliga, took just 17 months, at a cost of 56 million euros. The stadium planning team included the environmental aims of Green Goal in their modernization plans from the initial stages, and resolved to focus intensively on the savings to be achieved by collecting rainwater from the stadium roof.

Underground tanks with a capacity of one million liters have been installed, providing a supply sufficient to water the stadium playing area and the nearby practice pitches, and operates the automatic toilet flushing system. The measures will reduce the yearly water bill for the Nuremberg stadium by 60,000 euros, paying for itself in just ten years.

All the surface water that used to vanish down the drains has now been diverted to a pond. The main car park, once asphalt, has been covered with new, proprietary paving blocks so the water can seep away, and the media and disabled parking spaces, covering a total of 8,000 square meters, have been resurfaced with a grass/gravel mixture.

Waste prevention will continue beyond the FIFA World Cup in Nuremberg, extending to the Bundesliga program. The stadium operators will be obliged to organize a deposit system and provide returnable cutlery. The aim is to reduce at least a part of the 13 tons of waste thrown away by spectators at every Bundesliga match.

The modernised stadium was inaugurated on Sunday, April 24, 2005 and is now ready to be one of the twelve venues that will host the 2006 FIFA World Cup. During the Confederation Cup games between Argentina and Germany & Germany and Brazil in July 2005, the Stadium proved its credentials as a World Cup venue and will host five matches of the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006.

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