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It is the 25,000-seat lower bowl of the Stadium that will be fitted out with the concrete rakers. The huge rakers themselves are pre-cast on site, very close to where the Stadium is being built.

After being cast the rakers are finished by hand if necessary:



One-by-one the pre-cast rakers are taken by lorry along the short journey to the inside of the Stadium where they are carefully manovered into place by crane:



This panoramic photograph was shot from the south-east corner of the Stadium up on one of the eight towering green cranes stationed at the Stadium. The picture gives us a real sense of the bowl shape of the Stadium and we can visualise the seats rolling all the way around: