Lee Valley Athletics Centre
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Training and development 9700m2 sports centre for the UK's elite athletes that is home to Enfield & Haringey Athletics Club and serves the regional and local communitiy
By having every level of skill train in the same environment the centre hopes to encourage and inspire participation in athletics.
The building incorporates a 200m indoor athletics track with permanent banking and a first floor sprint track with changing rooms and support facilities below. The centre is a key training facility for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The development seeks to enhance the special qualities of the site at Pickett’s Lock and reflects the sustainability objectives of the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority. The entire building is naturally lit and ventilated through north lights over an array of asymmetric arched trusses supported and stabilized by clusters of raking steel columns.
Full accessibility for wheelchair users is provided by a network of slopes eliminating the need for lifts in this multi-storey building.
Data
- Begun: Jun 2005
- Completed: 2006
- Floor area: 9,700m2
- Sector: Sports and leisure
- Total cost: £16M
- Funding: Lee Valley Regional Park Authority/ DCMS, Capital Modernisation Fund/ Sport England/ London Marathon Trust
- Tender date: Mar 2004
- Procurement: JCT Major Project Form with amendments
- Address: Meridian Way, Edmonton, London, N9 0AR, United Kingdom
Professional Team
- Architect: David Morley Architects
- Project architect: David Morley
- Client: Lee Valley Regional Park Authority
- Structural engineer: Fulcrum Consulting/ WW
- Quantity surveyor: EC Harris LLP
- Planning supervisor: Gardiner and Theobald
- Main contractor: Shepherd Construction
- Sports Consultancy: Materials Science Consultants
Suppliers
- Sports equipment: Schelde International
- Aluminium roof deck: Kalzip
- Fall-arrest system for roof: Kalsafe
- Rooflight supplier: Duplus Domes
- Glazing and curtain walling: Saint-Gobain Ecophon
- Steelwork: SH Structures