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Solid State successfully tackles major project at Saints’ new super stadium
magnificent new purpose-built Rugby League stadium in St Helens. The BAFE SP203 registered company installed all the life-safety systems at Langtree Park including a powerful fire alarm and voice alarm system. The state-of-the-art arena is des-
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Construction begins on Atkins’ Pacific Dream Plaza in Qingdao, China
has begun. The river-side 300,000m² mixed use development is centred around a series of landscaped squares and paths and includes a 30-storey five star hotel tower, 1,500 residential units and office and retail space.
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partner for Timber Expo 2012. The launch exhibition and seminar last year was hailed by exhibitors and vis- itors alike as an outstanding success Within its partnership agreement,
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the Institute will have a complimen- tary stand and its logo will feature on the website, the promotional ezine Expozine and the official show guide, underlining CIAT’s significant role in the construction sector. Members are offered VIP status as visitors. Backed by TRADA Technology,
Timber Expo is designed to provide the opportunity for ‘dialogue, net- working and forging new business links’, said TRADA membership &
onstruction of the Atkins-
designed Pacific Dream Plaza in Qingdao in northern China
Peter Ridley, Atkins’ senior design
director, said: “This project presented a fascinating challenge because the area was partially enclosed by a river but it also gave us a great opportunity to create a remarkable quarter in a new urban location. Through rigorous testing of the client’s needs we have created a development that is distinctive,
Timber Expo welcomes CIAT as official show partner
he Chartered Institute of Architectural
Technologists (CIAT) will be an official show
marketing manager Rupert Scott. ‘Even in this electronic age, there is no substitute for face to face discus- sion. We are delighted to be working closely with CIAT to enable the Institute and its members to benefit from Timber Expo 2012 as a platform for promoting their activities and meeting with construction profes- sionals. Our aim is that everyone will be able to take away the tools to bring their projects to life: knowledge, inspi- ration and personal contacts.’ Other associations who have
signed up as show partners include the Builders Merchants Federation, UK SIP Association and the UK Timber Frame Association. TRADA is in dis- cussion with other key organisations.
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tined to become, not only home to one of the world’s most famous rugby league clubs, but also a hot-spot for business events with its first-class corporate hospitality facilities, restau- rants, meeting rooms and conference space for up to 1,600 delegates. Featuring bright red seating areas, a mirrored Sky TV lounge designed to house teams of television commen- tators and a gigantic TV screen and
functional and one with value as a new outdoor space amenity to the wider community.” The development is enclosed on
two sides by water and integrated into the surrounding neighbourhoods on its other faces. These boundary conditions presented a unique chal- lenge for the architects as there were four ‘fronts’ to the develop- ment, meaning that façade design and building form had to be carefully modeled to integrate well in all direc- tions. There was no opportunity for the ‘back door’ that heavily serviced mixed use projects might normally have. This also created complex traffic and servicing problems, which the architects solved in collaboration with the Atkins’ traffic engineering team from its Hong Kong office. The curvaceous building forms
evolved from a comprehensive set of strategic concept studies and as they developed the architects worked with Atkins’ sustainability team at Faithful+Gould in Shanghai to boost the project’s low carbon credentials. This meant testing the sunlight, shading and wind conditions within the quarter to ensure the circulation within the retail buildings created a primary circulation loop. The idea was to connect indoor and outdoor spaces in the three distinct elements of the retail offering: the outdoor ‘lifestyle’ village, the department store and the enclosed mall. Steven Hill, Atkins’ associate and project architect, said: “The design
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process gave us – and the client – great confidence in the solution that we generated. We tested in excess of 30 options at different scales and levels of detail – beginning with very rough models and then refining the designs in workshops. The key to the process was that it was not scatter- gun: strategic solutions were allowed to evolve and cross pollinate each other until we reached a design that everyone was happy with.” Atkins’ Beijing studio undertook the
architectural design from masterplan- ning through to detail design and was assisted by Atkins’ structural, traffic and sustainability teams in UK, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
pecialist electrical installation company Solid State has com- pleted a major project at the
score-display board, the open-air stadium has a capacity of 18,000 and is worlds away from the old Saints Knowsley Road ground. Stadium manager Phil White said:
“Langtree Park is one of the most prestigious sports stadiums ever to be built in the North West and we were lucky to engage the services of one of the region’s top specialist electrical companies to install the life-safety systems. The service we received from Solid State was excel- lent. From design stage, right through to installation, Solid State displayed exemplary technical knowledge and expertise. We are delighted with the fire and voice alarm system they installed and the ease with which they completed this major project.”
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