Green Stadium

Thyagaraj Sports Complex, one of the competition venues of Commonwealth Games 2010, is termed as ‘green stadium’ by its engineers. It has ceiling made of recycled garbage waste, flooring of recycled PVC, bricks made up of coal residual, heat resistant roof & walls and solar power generation of up to 2.5MW per day. The stadium will generate 3.5MW electricity of its own with solar power generators at the roof supplying 1MW and underground gas turbines contributing 2MW.