The refurbishment works of the Spotify Camp Nou will be carried out by the Turkish company Limak Construction. The directive entrusted the work to the company that built the Istanbul airportconsidered the best in the world, after a race in which the Turks beat Spanish construction companies such as Ferrovial, Acciona, Sacyr and FCC despite not having much experience in building sports stadiums.
In this regard, Elena Forte, institutional vice president of FC Barcelonahe dismissed any doubts that the Ottoman firm might generate. “It is not necessary to have experience in stadium construction nor was it essential and priority in the race. The Camp Nou will be an important engineering work and Limak is one of the best companies in the world in civil works,” Fort stressed at the time of the official announcement.
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Furthermore, the culé directive explained this The condition that Limak satisfies is that he complies with what was said in the referendum on the cost of 900 million euros for the Camp Nou and that he respects the deadlines to build the stadium at the best price and in the shortest possible time.. In other words, it has a guaranteed maximum price and the contract meets the deadlines.” The full works will start in June this year and will last until the summer of 2026.
This will force Barça to play at Montjuïc next season, until November 2024, when the first team will return to the culé temple for the institution’s 125th anniversary celebration. In this sense, Fort highlighted it “The speed in construction guarantees the least economic damage to the club”as well as specifying that the agreement with Limark is only for the renovation of the Camp Nou and not of the Palau Blaugrana, which is also part of the Espai Barça project.
Barça, confident in the financing of the works
With regard to the financing of a project whose total cost is set at 1,500 million euros, the Blaugrana institutional vice president clarified how the capital will be recovered to implement it. “Goldman Sachs is not the one that will leave us the money, but the one that is looking for the people who will finance the project, who must know both the commercial plan and the work plan in order to be able to explain it to those who will finally leave the money”Strong stressed. The American bank JP Morgan will also act as mediator in the negotiations that the board expects to close shortly.
