Sports Facilities

Sports halls, stands, club facilities. Long spans on small budgets.

What we take on

• Sports and multi-purpose halls, roof structures in timber, steel and composite
• Stands and spectator structures
• Changing rooms, support buildings and ancillary works
• Refurbishment and strengthening of existing hall roofs

The roof is the project

A three-court hall spans around thirty metres clear. The choice of material and system – glulam, truss, portal frame – governs construction time, cost and maintenance. We set the systems against each other with quantities and erection effort before designing one of them.

Existing roofs need attention

Long-span hall roofs from the seventies and eighties sit on outdated snow load assumptions, and glulam beams can have glue-line or moisture damage at the bearings. A reassessment with a visual inspection of the bearings is often the single most urgent measure there is.

Vibration in stands

Rhythmic crowd loading governs deflection and comfort rather than capacity. We carry out that verification rather than dealing with it through blanket allowances.