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THE CITY OF SALFORD STADIUM DESIGN TEAM
9 Apr 2008
Work on the City of Salford Stadium got underway last month on the 100
acre site and developers Red City will today announce the design team
behind the landmark project.
Demonstrating a commitment to using local expertise, the very best property
and construction professionals from the North West have been appointed
to ensure the new home of Salford City Reds RLFC is complete in time for
the start of the 2010 Super League season.
Building on its reputation as one of the leading project management consultants
for sports stadiums, Drivers Jonas (DJ) has been appointed by Red City
Developments to deliver its new 20,000 seater stadium and other leisure
facilities in Barton.
With a vast experience of stadia and leisure development, the DJ sport
team’s past projects include the Stadium of Light in Benfica, Portugal,
the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough and more recently the Madejski
stadium, Reading.
Paul Kinsella, partner at DJ, comments: "This is a fantastic instruction
from Red City Developments. It strengthens our position as one of
the country's leading project management consultants, specialising in
this sector. DJ is very excited to be delivering this first class
events stadium. We have a reputation for understanding sport, we have
the passion and knowledge to make this scheme a huge success.”
Also working on the new stadium is one of the UK’s leading specialists
in the design of sporting venues, AFL Architects. Having worked on iconic
stadia including Wembley, Old Trafford and Anfield, AFL Architects also
worked on the 2002 Commonwealth Games Stadium in Manchester. Offering
a wealth of experience, AFL Architects will bring the Salford Red’s
fans dreams to life in this state-of-the-art sports facility.
AFL’s Sports Director, John Roberts commented: “The City of
Salford Stadium is going to be one of the most visible sporting venues
in the country so the design is hugely important. The Barton Bridge flyover
which cuts across one side of the site provided us with a really unique
design opportunity – to give passers by a glimpse of the action going
on inside the stadium. This has been achieved by lowering the height of
the east stand and making a feature out of the elevated west stand. It’s
a really exciting project and we are thrilled to be involved.”
Working alongside AFL as the official hotel and retail architects is Salford
firm Leach Rhodes Walker. Headed up by director Gary Darby, Leach Rhodes
Walker is designing the luxury 4*, 210 bedroom hotel, 68,000 sq ft of
exhibition and conferencing facilities as well as an additional 230,000
sq ft of retail space on the eastern edge of the site. Leach Rhodes Walker
has previously designed the Mal Maison in Manchester city centre and more
recently the new Crowne Plaza hotel in the vibrant Northern Quarter.
Gary Darby said: “Having a sporting venue with such extensive conferencing
facilities and integrated hotel all within the stadium complex is a real
challenge but the City of Salford Stadium is going to be one of a kind.
It’s a great scheme to be working on.”
Also working on the development are SKM, structural and highways engineers,
Planit as masterplanners, RPS Gregory as mechanical and electrical engineers
and Davis Langdon as cost consultants.
John Wilkinson OBE of Red City Developments concludes: “It was imperative
to have an expert team behind the stadium build and we’ve been lucky
enough to find that talent on our door step. It seems only right that
on a landmark development such as this, that will offer so much to the
cities of Salford and Manchester that we have local designers, developers
and hopefully a high proportion of local contractors making it happen.”
To date, the site has been cleared of vegetation, geotechnical works have
begun alongside initial ground works and remediation. Civil engineering
works are due to start later this summer and the stadium will be operational
in the first quarter of 2010.
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