Working with John Holland Group, MakMax Australia delivered the Sydney Football Stadium Roof in late 2022. The 26,000 square metre tensile membrane roof is the crowning glory to this new world-class stadium in Sydney.
The main section of the highly visible Sydney Football Stadium roof has been covered in 48 massive PTFE fabric panels. The largest panels are 14½ metres wide and over 40 metres long. The fabric panels are fixed to the steel roof trusses and support beams with over 11km of ultra-light high strength aluminium tensioning hardware. The 21,708 square metres of modern glass-fibre fabric will provide sports fans weather protection from the rain and provide cooling shade cover while the action heats up on the field.
The inner ring of the roof is covered with 3500 square metres of clear ETFE panel sections. The 96 ultra-lightweight ETFE polymer panels are designed to allow sunlight through onto the grass playing surface promoting natural turf growth, while still providing weather protection for fans in the front rows of the stands. The clear panels are supported by more than 1100 x 8mm tensioned stainless-steel cables (in total, almost 5 kilometers of support cable was used).
A further 900 square metres of vertical PTFE panels have been installed to interface at various places in the roof where the clear ETFE sections overlap the white PTFE sections.
Rounding off the outer edge of the roof is over 1600 square metres of advanced glass reinforced polymer bullnose facia panels that incorporate a hidden gutter system to produce a premium high-quality finish to the roof.
