Clients
Emirates Stadium
- Project - Emirates Stadium
- Main Contractor - Sir Robert McAlpine
- Architect - HOK Sport
- Sub-Contract Value - £875,000
Project Outline
Emirates Stadium at Ashburton Grove, London became the new home of Arsenal Football Club in June 2006. The new 60,000 seat stadium was completed ahead of schedule and on budget by Main Contractor Sir Robert McAlpine and was officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh.
The project has already received a number of awards including: Building Project of the Year, Best Built Project contributing to London’s Future, Mayor’s Award for Planning Excellence and Best Mixed-Use Regeneration Award. Sir Robert McAlpine was also awarded Best Major Contractor and Construction Director Benny Kelly Personality of the Year.
Scope of Works
Powershield designed, supplied and installed over 800no doorsets including Powershield Personnel & Powershield Fire and bespoke removable crowd-segregation screens.
The Works
All doors and segregation screens were designed by Senior Draughtsman Graeme Devenney using Autocad 2002 with Mechanical Desktop version 6 and Auto SM. Following the drawing approval process the construction information was seamlessly downloaded to computer numerically controlled manufacturing equipment within the factory using CAD/CAM software.
Following a complete site survey using Laser measuring equipment the doors and screens were uniquely manufactured to suit the exact requirements and structural openings of the project.
Doors and screens were finished with a polyester powder coated finish to corporate colours selected by the client. The paint was applied in-house using a fully automated powder application system ensuring a consistently high quality durable finish.
All hardware was factory fitted to ensure correct installation and make certain that doors were despatched completed ready for site installation.
Site installation was completed by directly-employed door fitters with typically 2 men on site at any time. Despite the large volume of doors and low number of site personnel the sub-contract was completed on time and to the complete satisfaction of both Main Contractor and client.
