ACS will 'play' the World Cup in the US with its signature in half of the stadiums and possible works

 

The new appointment in 2026 with the FIFA World Cup in North America promises to be a showcase for the Spanish ACS, the largest specialist in the construction of stadiums through its American subsidiary Turner. Everything indicates that the event will become a business opportunity for this and other firms, especially hand in hand with the reforms. Turner is the author of five of the 11 stadiums that will host it in the United States.

The first of these is the Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City (Missouri), which hosts the games of the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL football league. Inaugurated in 1972, it has a capacity for 76,400 spectators and is pending comprehensive remodeling.

In California, Turner built Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles, California, used by the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers. The opening date of the largest NFL stadium is recent, September 2020. Its cost, of 4,900 million dollars (4,615 million euros), makes it the most expensive sports complex in the world, paid for by the sports magnate Stan Kroenke.

Also in California, the construction company is the author of Levi's Stadium in San Francisco (California). Way back nine years old, the facility accommodates San Francisco 49ers games and offers seating for 68,500 fans.

Turner has his fourth World Cup stadium in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). Lincoln Financial Field, with 68,500 seats, was inaugurated in August 2003 with a match between F.C. Barcelona and Manchester United. Its tenant since then is the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL.

And the fifth enclave of the ACS company for the World Cup in the United States is Lumen Field in Seattle (Washington), which replaced the Kingdome demolished in 2002 after a work of more than 400 million dollars. This alternates matches of the NFL team Seattle Seahawks and the soccer leagues of the Seattle Sounders (male) and OL Reign (female). In the transition from American football to soccer, the local modality of soccer, the complex known as the noisiest of all professional sports in the US drops from 72,000 locations to 40,000.

The rest of the American venues are the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta (Georgia), which opened in 2017 after works by Holder, Hunt, and CD Moody. The AT&T that Manhattan Construction built in Dallas (Texas) in 2009 and that hosts the Dallas Cowboys games. The NRG in Houston (Texas), was executed by the Manhattan-Skanska tandem in 2002. In Miami (Florida), the Hard Rock Stadium has been chosen and remodeled in 2015 by Huber, Hunt & Nichols for 550 million. The city of New York (New York) is present through the Metlife of the New York Giants and the New York Jets, who have shared this flagship project of the Skanska construction company since 2010. And the list closes with the headquarters of the New England Patriots of the NFL, Gillette Stadium in Boston (Massachusetts). The Kraft family's owner promotes a reform project for 225 million entrusted to the local Suffolk.

References

Turner, Skanska, and Manhattan Construction are great references in world construction in what concerns the United States. To which Tutor Perini joins as a project manager.

In addition to these venues, three more from Mexico (Azteca stadium in Mexico City, BBVA Bancomer in Monterrey, and Akron stadium in Guadalajara) and two in Canada (BMO Field in Toronto and BC Vancouver Place).

Contrary to what happened in Qatar, where the venues were new, FIFA has opted for already consolidated stadiums in North America, thereby exponentially reducing the necessary investment in infrastructure. However, the president of the organization, Gianni Infantino, has called for taking advantage of the window of opportunity offered by any world cup for investment.

In the case of the US, the requirements for adapting and remodeling the courses, both indoors and outdoors, are yet to be budgeted, which is already seen as a business in the making.

Very active

The ACS subsidiary, Turner, has just been awarded the construction of two important battery factories for electric vehicles, with works for a total of 4,500 million dollars together with different partners, but large buildings and sports stadiums are in its DNA.

Last November, together with the Gilbane Building, the Buffalo Bills stadium, in New York State, was completed, and the new arena for the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team in Los Angeles should be ready for the season. 2024-2025.

On Turner's service sheet are the renovation of Madison Square Garden and the baseball cathedral, Yankee Stadium, both in New York. He was also in charge of the Sports Authority Field of the Denver Broncos, in the city of Denver (Colorado); from Nationals Park in Washington, or the Kansas Speedway speed circuit, where NASCAR Cup events are held.