The team has been busy building the temporary structures along the slope, in the finish area and in the VIP area since October 2024. This includes three grandstands with a total of 13,500 standing places, including a VIP area with its own grandstand seats and hospitality zone. A total of up to 15,000 fans are expected in the finish stadium.
Up close from the start to the finish
The grandstands promised pure thrills for all those who were able to secure seats directly in the finish area. Ski fans following the race on screen can also look forward to a close-up live experience from start to finish - thanks to the camera towers set up along the course. A wheelchair platform will be installed for people with limited mobility.
Familiar terrain
The NUSSLI team is already very familiar with the terrain and conditions of the Salzburg ski region. Back in 2020, it set up the event infrastructure for two Ski World Cup races here - in the space of just one week. Saalbach Hinterglemm spontaneously stepped in as a replacement venue after the Chinese venue of Yanqing was canceled and commissioned NUSSLI to build the event infrastructure. “Just a few days after the order was placed, the trucks with the system material rolled into the ski resort. And within a week, we realized a spectator grandstand, speaker booths, camera towers and supporting structures for two video walls,” recalls project manager Gottfried Kaisermayr.
Thoughtful planning
The NUSSLI team now had significantly more time to plan the assembly work for the 2025 World Ski Championships: At the beginning of October, before the first snowfall in the ski region, the fitters began constructing the finish stadium. This had the advantage that the ground was not yet frozen and the stands could be better anchored in the ground - for optimum stability of the facility. Snow, rain, storms, ... The unpredictable winter weather often throws a spanner in the works and demands a great deal of flexibility from the set-up team. Because, according to Markus Enzenberger: “Strong winds make construction work more difficult or even impossible, and we also have to rethink our planning when a lot of snow falls.” The project team will only start building the platforms and towers for the cameras in January 2025 once the final route has been determined.
Sustainable event
The aim of the World Cup organizers is a resource-saving and barrier-free event that provides sustainable impetus for the region and the sport. The temporary event structures from NUSSLI based on system material also meet this requirement. They not only offer the organizer a flexible and economical solution, but also correspond to his sustainable event concept. This is because every scaffolding pole and every grandstand seat is reintegrated into the material cycle after the event and planned for the next use at a new location - preferably directly from event to event and without causing unnecessary transportation miles. In this way, a grandstand seat is used on average on around 20 event days at different locations during a winter season.
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