Sporting Events Total Event Solutions Six Nations Final 2018 - Lighting & Distribution

Major Sporting Events Total Event Solutions Six Nations Final 2018 - Lighting & Distribution

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Lights Out at Murrayﬁeld - Lighting & Distribution 11th Hour are industry leaders in event production and the supply of technical solutions to events. Our clients range from leading venues, music festivals featuring world famous musicians and artists, to international sporting events and charity events.

We supply generators and electrical distribution systems, lighting, sound, AV along with temporary structures and bespoke solutions for events. At the heart of the company is a dedicated team based in the UK who have a vast range of knowledge, skills and expertise to tackle many varied requirements of our diverse client base and thoroughly understand the industry.

We pride ourselves in delivering excellent customer service 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Women’s FA Cup 2017 Our diverse range of clients showcase the range of customers we serve Six Nations Final 2018 - Lighting & Distribution Principality Launch - Lighting & Distribution Volvo Ocean Race - Distribution & Temperature control

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11th Hour is proud to oﬀer diversity in our products and services, making us a total event solution partner covering every aspect of an event from security to cable and distribution provision. We are capable of delivering our services UK wide, with an experienced team of personnel.

Our Services are not only oﬀered to one oﬀ events, but to touring events, concerts and venues. From consultation through to delivery our team have the skills and knowledge to deliver extremely high quality productions for any event of any scale in any location.

Services include

- Generators and Electrical Distribution - Marquees, Staging and Bespoke Structures - Lighting, Sound and Production - Project Management - Electricians & Electrical Testing - Specialist Crew and Event Staﬃng 11th Hour - A Sporting Life

Sporting occasions are a regular feature of the 11th Hour calendar and our team can supply a comprehensive range of services, spanning every conceivable requirement. From Rugby and Football through Golf, Auto Sport, and Cycling, to Marathons and polo, 11th Hour has the equipment and expertise to meet any and every challenge. In stadiums and on fairways, tracks, hospitality areas and public spaces, our skills extend in every direction to ensure that sporting events and all their satellite activities run smoothly and eﬃciently.

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Women’s FA Cup Final - Structures & Lighting

Newport Marathon - Generators & Distribution Power & Electrical Distribution Systems

Fundamental to meeting the demands of all sports events is the provision of power and temporary electrics and 11th Hour has a wealth of resources, including a fleet of the very latest, environmentally-friendly and highly efficient generators. With miles of cabling available from our well-stocked warehouse, no job is too big. Be it powering the towering flames at e Principality Stadium in Cardiff or meeting the broadcast power requirements at a prestige golf tournament, safety and reliability are guaranteed.

Our generators are the most eﬃcient on the market and are tested regularly to ensure they provide maximum eﬃciency and fuel economy for you as the client. We service our generators before they are sent to any event, to minimise the risks of breakdown and malfunction. We also conduct safety tests once installed, giving you peace of mind for your event.

We can oﬀer the following services:

- Generators 6kVA - 500kVA - Distribution - Cables - Cable Ramp - Temporary Electrical Installation Certiﬁcation - Electrical Inspection, Testing and Veriﬁcation Kew Gardens - Generators & Distribution

Stereophonics Summer in the City - Power & Distribution

Welcome to Wales - Power, Lighting, Structures, Distribution Selection of Images from the World Half Marathon Cardiﬀ Marquees, Staging & Bespoke Structures

Hospitality is a key component of sports events and 11th Hour is equipped with a range of marquees, structures and staging that can accommodate the different requirements of a variety of scenarios - all available with or without branding, carpets, furniture and lighting. All 11th Hour structures and staging components are of the highest quality and offer attractive, rugged packages that have been tried and tested everywhere from e UEFA Champions League Village to the on-pitch presentation of the 6 Nations trophy. Staging can be supplied on any scale, whether for a simple podium or full-scale live entertainment. Our in-house expertise and the modular nature of much of our stock means that we can create bespoke structures to meet most specifications.

11th Hour can oﬀer the following solutions to events:

- Marquee Structures - Stage Roof Systems - Outdoor & Indoor Staging - Saddlespan Structures - Bespoke Structures - Promotional Structures & Automotive Ramp Structures - Truss Structures

Wales Rally - Bespoke Truss Structure Lighting & Sound

e provision of sound and lighting also sits at the heart of stadium spectaculars and other events in and around the sporting world. 11th Hour can supply high quality audio systems, as well as lighting effects to meet the needs of everything from the players tunnel, live band or podium presentation. Our team has also designed and staged breathtaking pre-match lightshows at major international stadiums such as Murrayfield, the home of Scottish rugby. Our lighting equipment is the most up to date on the market and wherever possible, we use low energy LED fixtures for site and structural coverage. Pyrotechnic displays delivered by qualified operators also fall within the 11th Hour remit.

We can oﬀer the following services:

- Stage Lighting & Eﬀects - Projections - Building & Architectual lighting - Lighting Design - PA Systems - Lighting & Sound Operators - Pyrotechnics Speedmachine Motorcross Silverstone - Lighting & Distribution 11th Hour and International Rugby

e NatWest 6 Nations Rugby Union Championship ranks as one of the world’s greatest sporting competitions. e average attendance at matches exceeds 70,000 and worldwide TV coverage extends to millions. e Principality Stadium in Cardiff is acknowledged by players and fans from all over the world as the greatest rugby crucible of them all, where the incomparable atmosphere is part and parcel of the on-field drama. A great deal of careful planning goes into every match day and Cardiff-based events supplier, 11th Hour, has been involved for a number of years in helping to deliver some of the services associated with each spectacular occasion at the home of Welsh rugby.

For Wales home games at the Principality Stadium, 11th Hour supplies power and lighting for the players tunnel and pitchside entrance as well as mains distribution for the now famous flames that flare high into the air to herald the teams’ arrival. In recent times, this work has been expanded to include provision for trophy presentations, requiring lights, cabling, podiums, network equipment and operators. 11th Hour’s rugby remit however, does not begin and end in Cardiff. On the day of the 2018 Six Nations finale, as well as a team working in the Welsh capital 11th Hour was on hand at Twickenham, the home of English rugby, supplying provision for the presentations. e delivery of these on-field services reprised a role played at e Aviva Stadium in Dublin and Stade De France, Paris in 2017 e nature of large televised sporting events means there is no margin for error for the provider. Broadcast timings are strict and pitch-side activity is intense. 11th Hour teams are accustomed to dealing with the attendant pressures, something that is well illustrated by the swift installation and removal of a pre-match light show, designed and operated by 11th Hour, when Scotland took on World Champions New Zealand at Murrayfield in Edinburgh during the last Autumn International Series. e dynamic light show which met with roars of approval, required the use of 8 rolling trusses and took place before the emergence of the teams. e whole process was timed to the second and executed by 11th Hour’s expert team, smoothly and without a hitch.

Time and again at major sporting occasions, 11th Hour delivers its services in a calm, efficient and methodical fashion. Its expert, highly experienced staff consult closely with clients to establish their requirements and after detailed planning, can draw upon the huge range of equipment available from its Cardiff warehouse. By consistently investing in the latest technologies and expanding its expert team, 11th Hour is able to meet the demands of large-scale, high-profile events, safely and with complete confidence.

Murrayﬁeld Scottish Rugby - Lighting Case Study: 11th Hour solutions for UEFA Champions League Final

e final of the UEFA Champion's League football competition is the most watched annual event in world sport. A television audience well in excess of 300 million viewers tuned in to watch the game and wherever it is staged, it attracts huge crowds inside and outside the selected venue. On June 3rd 2017, Spanish giants Real Madrid took on Italian underdogs Juventus at e Principality Stadium in Cardiff and after an even first half, duly obliged the bookmakers with a 4-1 win. e city of Cardiff is accustomed to the staging of large sporting events but the size of the accompanying football carnival eclipsed even that seen when international rugby comes to town. Fans from Spain and Italy began pouring in days before the game itself and it is estimated that there were around 300,000 extra visitors to Cardiff over the weekend.

UEFA Champions League Final - Football Village - Power & Distribution UEFA Champions League Final - Champions Festival - Cup Lighting & Power

Many months in advance of the final, Cardiff-based Event and Project Management specialists, 11th Hour, were engaged by the organisers to provide a wide range of services across the City to support the infrastructure necessary to accommodate the influx of fans and the various satellite events surrounding the occasion. 11th Hour are no strangers to co-ordinating and supplying to large events but as founder-director Andy Hopkins points out, the demands of e Champions League Final were, to say the least, rather formidable:

"It's probably not overstating the case to say that when one of the items on a clients wish-list is a floating football pitch in Cardiff Bay, you can be sure that you're in pretty demanding territory. That said, meeting any scale of requirement is exactly what we're set up for - by the time we had the entire brief for the job, our teams were relishing the challenges."

UEFA Champions League Final - Football Village - Power & Distribution e UEFA Football Village which catered for 2000 hospitality guests was located at Cooper's Field in Bute Park, adjacent to Cardiﬀ Castle. Here 11th Hour supplied more than 100 x MBI Floods for all back of house lighting and 6 generators to supply power for the lights and production power. In addition the company supplied safety lighting for the wider park and surrounding areas.

UEFA Champions League Final - Football Village - Lighting, Power, Distribution UEFA Champions League Final - Floating Football Pitch - Lighting & Power

In Cardiff Bay itself, 11th Hour assisted in the install of a floating football pitch based on pontoons brought in from e Netherlands supplied by Van Hameren Verhurr BV. e pitch itself hosted a number of events during the four day period it was open, including learning disability and age-group youth games, refugee teams from Cardiff, Swansea and Newport, walking football and a deaf football friendly international. Footballing legends like Luis Figo and Ian Rush also took to the pitch to relive their glittering pasts in front of huge crowds. As temperatures in May soared, an 11th Hour team comprising of Director and engineering expert John Davies and assistant Project Manager Martin Stanbury took to the water in an RIB to begin the installation. ey began by fitting custom fabricated steel base plates, designed by John Davies. ese supported 4 x 8m GS Slick Truss Masts that carried floodlights and moving lights for the pitch.

e lighting for the pitch comprised 8 x Metal Halide flood lights and 8 x weather-proof, moving SGM G-Spots. 12 x Martin 401 LED architectural fixtures were used to 'truss-tone' the masts. All electrical power and distribution around the pitch, as well as a PA for the surrounding viewing areas, was also supplied by 11th Hour. e Oval Basin, adjacent to the Bay itself hosted the Champions Festival, 4 days of events centred around a stage that featured artists as diverse as Cerys Matthews, DJ Steve Aoki, local bands and a Welsh Choir. On the main stage itself, 11th Hour supplied stage lighting, using Claypaky and ROBE fixtures, whilst in the wider vicinity the team supplied 3 Mega watts of power to event partners Playstation, Nissan, Mastercard, Gazprom, Sony, BT and Pepsi, across numerous locations. In all 11th Hour installed 20km of cabling and 700m of cable ramp in this area of the project.

Artists Impression of the Champions Festival In Cardiﬀ Bay

Champions Festival Stage in Cardiﬀ Bay - 11th Hour supplied lighitng and power to the stage UEFA Champions League Final - Champions Festival - Stage Lighting UEFA Champions League Final - City Centre - Fencing and Security Structures

Whilst this example gives a flavour of the demands on 11th Hour during the Champions League events, the action in the city centre, close to the stadium brings home the extent to which there can be no substitute for the level of experience, expertise and sheer adaptability under pressure, displayed by the team. Essentially the brief was to provide fencing and barriers (Heras and M.A.S.S) for a number of areas in the city centre and Bute Park, to support crowd management and create cordons for VIP areas etc. In total, almost 5km of fencing/barriers were installed, transported in and out by 13 articulated lorries. Security was extremely tight, access was restricted and in some areas that could not support plant and machinery, or where access (particularly around the stadium) was tight, the manual handling of large quantities of materials was the only solution. In Bute Park, the team had to overcome slopes, trees and many unusually-shaped areas, whilst in the busy city centre, working next to the general public demanded extreme care and much patience. e pressures surrounding the events in the city centre and Cardiff Bay justifiably deserve attention but it is worth pointing out that many essential functions in less high-profile areas also proved key to the success of the event. 11th Hour supplied full project management, catering, power, site lighting, fencing, toilets, structures and site crew for all of the fan meeting points in the city. A good example of one such area was Splott Market, a popular trading area near Cardiff Bay which was used on the day of the match as a drop-off and pick-up point for coaches. 11th Hour supplied 175m of fencing and 230m of pedestrian barriers as well as portable toilets, seating, power generation, emergency lighting, public address system and all temporary electrical distribution and certification. Although in relative terms, a straightforward installation, it was complicated by the market remaining operational on the days before and after the event. e turnaround time to clear the site on the day after the match was particularly tight but was achieved in UEFA Champions League Final - Champions Festival - Generators, Distribution, cable ramp, lighting good order, enabling normal trading to resume unhindered.

e UEFA Champions League Final was the single biggest sporting event ever to take place in Wales (and the biggest in the world in 2017). When Cardiff was first named as the host city, doubts were expressed in certain quarters that it would be able to provide the necessary infrastructure to support the huge number of visitors predicted to attend. When a terrorist attack shook Manchester less than 2 weeks before the match, the spotlight on Cardiff intensified, as did the security on the ground. In spite of the pressures, the event was hailed in all quarters as a huge success. 11th Hour made a vital contribution to the outcome, working professionally and tirelessly to adapt (often at short notice) to a collection of highly demanding briefs. Total Event Solutions by 11th Hour

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