NON-TRADITIONAL STRUCTURES
CASE STUDY – Rubb
W
orking closely with McGurk environment for Gaelic football, hurling welded components provides corrosion
Chartered Architects, Rubb and Camogie competitions. protection with the truss frame construc-
Buildings recently delivered an The backbone of the 35m span x tion – creating the platform for the clear
MMC sports building to Erins Own Lavey 60m long BVE, high volume, inner span and high volume walls.
GAC in Gulladuff, Northern Ireland. walled-building is a well engineered The use of white semi translucent roof
Partly funded by Sport Northern Ireland, structural framing system. Post pro- fabric provides a light, bright airy atmo-
the building had to deliver the best duction, the hot dip galvanizing of all sphere to the building.
CASE STUDY – Collinson CASE STUDY – Freespan
T
here has been a well publicised
and significant shortfall in prison
capacity over recent years with an
average capacity of 80,500 and a prison
population of 81,700. The government
has used early release measures and
Project Safeguard (temporary use of
police cells) to artificially hold the prison
C
ollinson supplied a quality population below 80,500 in the short-
1,600sq m MMC structure to ac- term. However, the Ministry of Justice
commodate a two-court netball (MoJ) needed an innovative, radical and
hall at Soar Valley College after Leic- cost effective solution to resolve capacity
ester Netball League, together with problems. By utilising MMC and rapid-
Sport England, approached the build technologies the MoJ now has the
college, which was undergoing a capacity to deliver a fully specified prison
multi-million pound Building Schools in a fraction of the time required by tra- England regulations in three prisons. The
for the Future project. ditional construction. first high-performance sports hall for
Works included foundations, sub- The availability of high-quality excel- the HMP’s Rapid Build Custodial Facili-
bases and external paths, temporary lent sports facilities is essential to the ties programme was delivered at HMP
bridge/roadways, SUDs drainage and a successful running of a prison. A well- Rochester. It was built in less than eight
Best-Hall building. The structure came designed and specified sports hall can be weeks and with cost savings of 22 per
complete with doors, plant and store used as a management tool to reward cent over traditional build costs. Addi-
room, ventilation system, gutters, positive behaviour by inmates. tionally, the facility is the most energy
security cladding, column protection Over recent years Freespan has been efficient sports facility on the prison es-
padding, a netball specified lighting involved with the planning and build- tate, delivering substantial reductions in
system, external lighting scoreboard, ing of sports halls designed to Sport annual operating costs.
electrical controls and netting.
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