City of Manchester Stadium
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Stadium built as the focal point for the 2002 Commonwealth Games and home to Manchester City FC with a capacity of 48,500
The stadium has been designed as a landmark, with the arrow-like masts supporting the roof a visible locator from miles around. It sits in ‘Sportcity’, which includes the institute, a tennis centre, and the Faulkner Browns-designed Velodrome.
The primary roof system is made up of the 12 perimeter masts, high-strength backstay rods and spiral strand forestay and tension-ring cables. The secondary or roof plate structural system comprises box section rafters arranged radially at approximately 8 metre centres supporting rolled steel purlins which in turn support either standing seam or polycarbonate roof cladding.
Glazing in a VIP area has been lined with an anti-shatter bomb blast film, and already the security is high in the environs of the stadium, with regular patrols of mounted police.
Data
- Begun: Oct 1999
- Completed: Mar 2002
- Floor area: 68,983m2
- Sector: Sports and leisure
- Total cost: £101.8M
- Procurement: Construction management
- Address: Rowsley Street, Manchester, M11 3FF, United Kingdom
Professional Team
- Architect: Arup Associates
- Project architects: Dipesh Patel, James Burland, Lindsay Johnston, Luke Mcadam, Marcel Ridyard, Peter Llewellyn, Steve Clark, Terry Raggett, Tristram Carfrae
- Client: Manchester City Council
- Main contractor: Laing
- Landscape architect: Gillespies
- Turf specialist: Stri
- Wind modelling: RWDI
- Services engineer: Arup
- Structural engineer: Arup Associates
Suppliers
- Roof cladding: Brodericks
- Flood lighting: Philips
- Atrium glazing: Spacedeck
- Rainscreen: Keyclad