NON-TRADITIONAL STRUCTURES The Jubilee Dome indoor
sports facility compliments 50 acres of sports fields
Veldeman tennis hall offers members year-round tennis
Veldeman designs and builds customised semi permanent and permanent structures
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eldeman Structure Solutions has just finished construction of a brand new tennis hall for ten-
nis club Cappelle aan den IJssel, near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The Polygon structure of 40m by 116m will render weather-interrupted games at the club a thing of the past. Unique to this project is the terracot-
ta color of the gables and the border of the roof sheets. This was imposed by the local authority, to achieve an aes- thetically harmonious integration of the hall with the gravel tennis courts. The roof and upper walls are made
of translucent PVC-coated fabric, which provides glare-free light and increased playing comfort. In summer, the side walls of the hall can be fully opened to a height of 4m – creating an indoor/ outdoor playing environment. The Polygon is an ideal covering op-
tion for various sports such as tennis, volleyball, basketball and even swim- ming pools. The added benefit of the sliding curtain system allows for sports to be practiced all year round. Veldeman designs and builds cust-
omised temporary, semi-permanent and permanent structures. Worldwide the company has built more than 400 sports buildings: for tennis, football, horseback riding, winter sports, water sports and multi sports. The company offers turnkey solu-
tions including foundations, heating, lighting and insulation. By using high- quality and environmentally-friendly materials, Veldeman structures guar- antees a long lifespan. The halls need little to no maintenance and the PVC fabric is 100 per cent recyclable.
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Norseman Structures’ indoor sports facility at the Jubilee Dome
long (19.8m x 34.7m) indoor Jubilee Dome sports facility. The independent preparatory school
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for boys and girls in Northampton- shire now boasts an indoor netball, tennis and volleyball court facility, as well as four badminton courts to complement the school’s 50 acres of well-maintained sports fields. Within the structure sports activities and after school clubs can be conducted all year round and headteacher Stephen Player says it’s already in constant use from early morning to evening each day. “Initially we were looking at a tradi-
tional sports structure, but as soon as we saw the flexibility, value for money
orseman Structures is the chosen supplier of Spratton Hall School’s 64ft wide x 113ft
and quality that the Norseman build- ing offers, we knew we had found an ideal solution,” Player says. The fully-lined and insulated facility
provides an unobstructed, column- free area for sports activities. The turn- key project included Sport M Dry-Tex flooring from Gerflor in beech grain effect, 7ft high (2.4m) rebound boards on one side of the building and a light- weight gas-fired continuous radiant tube heating system. Deltalux asym- metric floodlighting and floor fixed wheel-away tennis posts and nets were also provided. “Norseman Structures provided
extensive customer support before, during, and after its installation and the dome was completed on time and on budget,” Player says.
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