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SPORTS STRUCTURES The EuroHockey tournament took over London’s Olympic Park for 10 days Project: Temporary structures for the EuroHockey Championship 2015 By: Neptunus The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London is living up to LOCOG’s legacy pledge of turning the vast park into a venue able to host a varied range of elite competitions. In August, the park hosted the Unibet EuroHockey Championship. For the competition, the organiser, England Hockey (working in partnership with event specialist ICON), needed flexible, easily constructed facilities in order to transform the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre within the Olympic Park into a competition venue. Temporary structure company Neptunus was called in and given just five days to deliver and build 2,460sq m of structures at the park. Working on behalf of long-term client ICON, Neptunus supplied a number of its clear-span Alu-halls to form the venue’s main entrance, main retail area, public catering structures and the players, friends and family clubhouse and museum. Neptunus also provided the venue with a VIP Pavilion, ticket check-ins, retail outlets and information points across the park for the tournament’s 30,000 spectators. To help protect the all-important landscape of the iconic Olympic Park, all of the structures were self-weighted with concrete floors – with some featuring bespoke entrance ramps and staircases. April Trasler, managing director of Neptunus UK, said: “As the structures were situated at various locations across the park, our technical team meticulously planned the delivery and build to ensure our onsite crew of 12 could complete the venue in just five days.” When Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS), one of the northernmost top-level football clubs in the world, decided to build a new main stand at its Keskuskenttä home ground, the architect had to take into account the fierce climate and limited space. Located above the Arctic Circle, temperatures in Rovaniemi, Finland, can drop to -47C (-54F) during winter months. An added complication was the tight space allocated for the new stand – squeezed between the pitch and a public highway running within The new stand has been designed to cope with Rovaniemi’s extreme climate Project: Seating for the new main stand at Rovaniemen Palloseura By: Stechert 20m (22yds) of it. As a result, Germanbased Stechert was brought in to design a flexible seating solution which would maximise the space available. Stechert used its Berlin range of folding tip-up seats to create a 2,000-capacity stand. “We had to take into account the extreme weather, which can place a huge strain on the seats, so the durable Berlin products were a perfect fit,” says Kay Habermaier, Stechert’s sales manager. The main stand designer, Finnish architects Artto Palo Rossi Tikka, picked the seat colours to feature RoPS’ traditional blue and white as well as the city’s official colour green. The new €4.8m stand will increase the stadium’s seating capacity to 2,800 and total capacity (including standing) to nearly 5,000. According to RoPS CEO Petri Jaatinen, the added capacity could see average ticket revenue increase by €10,000 per game. 78 sportsmanagement.co.uk issue 4 2015 © Cybertrek 2015
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