Mail & Guardian reported that the 89 000-seater, calabash-inspired FNB Stadium highlights African design and ingenuity, according to listed construction company Aveng.
The company together with its subsidiary Grinaker-LTA was celebrating the roof wetting and the start of the final completion inspections of FNB Stadium.
FNB Stadium has contributed R512-million worth of procurement investments to broad-based black economic empowerment companies and a total of 4 700 job opportunities for the local community.
According to Mike Moody, Grinaker-LTA project director, building the stadium required 90 000 cubic metres of concrete, about 10 000 tons of reinforcement steel, nine million bricks and 13 000 tons of structural steel.