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This month will see the launch of a fabric tensioned football training facility for Coventry City FC’s Academy as well as the local community.
THE fabric structure forms part of major improvements to the Alan Higgs Centre, which is owned by Coventry and Warwickshire Awards Trust. Operated by CV Life, which provides a range of sports, recreational, educational and social activities for the community, the centre is undergoing a £13.5m refurbishment to include an Olympic-sized swimming pool and a newly resurfaced outdoor 3G pitch.
Rubb Buildings is supplying the 47.5m wide x 67m long training facility, which will be used by the local community, schools and Coventry City Football Academy. Talks with the Coventry and Warwickshire
Awards Trust and CV Life teams began in 2017 when they approached Rubb with a vision to develop their football training facilities to include an all-weather indoor structure. The team visited the Rubb indoor football facility at West Bromwich Albion. Built 12 years ago, the structure has maintained its good condition and is flooded with natural light admitted through its high translucent PVC roof. Following the site visit to West Bromwich Albion, the client team decided to replace their traditional training barn with a fabric facility to reduce both capital and running costs. Featuring a PVC fabric cladding, a Rubb facility
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is approximately one third lighter than a conventional building and often costs a third of the price. The alternative structures are proven to lower project costs, overall structure steel weight and construction times
year on year, we are seeing growing demand in the sports industry for semi-permanent fabric structures
The new super structure at the Alan Higgs
Centre is designed to accommodate a FIFA standard 60m x 40m football pitch with an adequate run off perimeter. This is surrounded by 2.4m high internal rebound boards and a divisional and ball stopping netting system. The pitch specification is the latest SISTurf Soccer Pro 50 synthetic including 15mm insitu shock pad, creating the ideal surface and training environment. The structure stands 12.9m high at its apex and comprises a galvanized steel frame to
protect it against corrosion and a white translucent PVC-clad roof to allow natural daylight to illuminate the interior. Completing the building specification is sidewall steel cladding, specialised sport lighting with motion sensors, large sidewall gutter systems, eight fresh air louvres and multiple access doors people and equipment. Due to open in November, the full turnkey
project took a total of 22 weeks from placement of order to completion. “Year on year, we are seeing growing demand in the sports industry for semi- permanent fabric structures. Across the UK many clubs, schools and other sport organisations including Newcastle United, Sunderland AFC, West Bromwich Albion FC, York University and Ipswich Academy, are benefiting from large clear span covered playing areas with high translucent ceilings providing a natural, bright and efficient training environment,” says Rubb sales executive, Stephanie Coyle. “It will be great to see the new facility
complete and in use alongside the rest of the Alan Higgs Centre development.”
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