The Maracaná, the largest temple in football in Brazil, began to “prepare for the future” a few days after turning 75 years with a project that will modernize it to optimize its management from a digital transformation with Spanish technology.
From the hand of Fractal, a company specialized in intelligent maintenance solutions of high technological maintenance, the main stadium of Rio de Janeiro seeks to ensure its long -term operation and sustainability.
“We are talking about a huge challenge,” said the company’s commercial manager, Juan José Ferrari.
This will be the first time that the company, with branches in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile, attends a football stadium, which represents several challenges for Fractal, for the variety of categories that are required for its operation.
These cover from basic maintenance services and security or electricity systems, to categories of “high complexity”, such as hydraulic engineering, which help control water pumping systems so that the court is not flooded when it rains.
In addition to housing two Football World Cup finals (1950 and 2014) and five of the Copa Libertadores -last in 2023 -, Maracaná also welcomed the 2007 Pan American Games, the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Rio Olympics and great concerts.
By 2027, the one that is considered one of the most emblematic stadiums on the planet will be one of the headquarters of the Women’s World Cup in Brazil, including the opening match and the grand final.
To guarantee these types of shows, “a lot of background work,” Ferreira said, because the objective is to give an integral solution to the maintenance management of about 180,000 assets and guarantee their useful life.
The identification and digitalization of them, which were classified as Excel payroll – and many of them still on paper – was achieved in less than four weeks.
With that orderly, geolocated and interconnected information, the company will now begin the second stage, which consists of the intelligent monitoring of all of them through devices connected to the network.
This technology will help detect infrastructure maintenance needs, such as water leaks or safety equipment or fire system, among many others.
“It is not simply to take into account what are the assets of the project, but work well,” preventing problems in advance, through a “orchestration” of 29 different variables, said Ferreira.
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Fractal Technology will facilitate Maracaná Maintenance
To make it possible, the Executive explained that there is a “team of heroes and heroines” invisible from around 150 people, of about 15 subcontracted companies from different disciplines.
They are responsible for executing preventive service orders and receiving all requests for incidents. “That is an army of people” that must constantly communicate in a standardized way, within a centralized system, added the expert.
With fractal technology, immediate notifications are achieved, even without human intervention.
“Forget about paper, radio communications or collective messages by WhatsApp; everything is channeled through a platform that notifies the company in real time,” said Ferreira.
The platform not only speeds up processes, but also eliminates common excuses as “I do not arrive the notification” or “I did not receive the mail.”
When centralizing the information, the system records and shows each notification issued, allowing companies to measure care times and evaluate the performance of suppliers.
In addition, it facilitates decision -making, such as adjusting processes or replacing companies that do not comply with established agreements, guaranteeing greater efficiency, cost reduction and transparency in operational management.
The task of the Spanish company covers the entire Maracaná complex, which, in addition to the football stadium, has an aquatic park, an athletics stadium and the Maracanazinho, a sports hall with capacity for 14,000 people.
The agreement will also include the modernization of the Flamengo Club facilities, a team that holds 65% of the concessionaire that was awarded the management of the Maracaná Stadium.
The agreement, of which the amount was not mentioned and that includes the visibility of the Fractal logo in the Brazilian championship matches between 2025 and 2027, will be for three years and extendable according to the results.
With EFE information
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