Chill Factore
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The main indoor ski slope at the Chill Factore
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Indoor ski slope, including a main slope, learners slope and toboggan run alongside a warm-side zone containing bars, restaurants and shops
The aim of the project was to provide Manchester with its first indoor ski slope.
The main slope cantilevers up and out over the site, measuring 176m long and 40m wide. Alongside the run is a 52m-long learners’ slope of similar width, with a 20m-wide, 58m-long toboggan-only hill in between. Where the slopes hit the ground there is a two-level warmside zone, with tickets sales, equipment hire and changing facilities at ground floor level.
At first floor level of the warmside zone are bars and restaurants overlooking the ski slope beyond the glass, whose walls are covered with giant transfers of Alpine scenery. There are ski lifts on either side of the main slopes, while on the learner slope is an inclined travelator. The warmside zone is reached from the car park and main entrance via a cranked shopping street.
Data
- Begun: Jan 2006
- Completed: Nov 2007
- Floor area: 23,225m2
- Sectors: Sports and leisure, Retail
- Total cost: £25M
- Funding: -
- Procurement: JCT Standard
- CO2 Emissions: -kg/m2/year
- Address: Trafford Way, Trafford Quays Leisure Village, Manchester, M41 7JA, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: FaulknerBrowns
- Project architect: Ben Sykes
- Client: Extreme Cool
- Main contractor: AELTC
- Quantity surveyor: Roger Wenn Partnership
- Structural engineer: Mitchell McFarlane International
- Services engineer: Hulley & Kirkwood Consulting Engineers
- Snow system designer: Acer Snowmec