Building Envelope Case Study Pavilion Stand, Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham

Building envelope case study Pavilion Stand, Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham

Client: Warwickshire County Cricket Club The stunning new £32 million Pavilion Stand at Edgbaston Cricket Ground Main contractor: Galliford Try elevates the famous Birmingham venue to England’s second largest cricket Architect: AFL Architects stadium.

Installer: Deane Roofing & Cladding This world-class facility includes a conference and banqueting suite, improved System manufacturer: Tata Steel visitor amenities and extended ground capacity to 25,000 spectators. Cladding system: Tata Steel 42/960 / 0.4mm Tata Steel The building’s impressive curved external LP1000 Liner shell features over 4000m2 of the Tata Steel 42/960 sinsusoidal profile in a highly attractive Metallic Silver (RAL 9006) ARS-coated aluminium finish plus 0.4mm Tata Steel LP1000 Liner in Brilliant White.

Telephone: 0845 30 88 330 Building envelope case study Pavilion Stand, Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham

The stunning new £32 million Pavilion Stand at Edgbaston Cricket Ground elevates the famous Birmingham venue to England’s second largest cricket stadium. Only Lord’s is bigger.

This world-class facility includes a conference and 750-seater banqueting suite, improved visitor amenities and extended ground capacity to 25,000 spectators, seating 8,250, compared to the 5,000 accommodated in the previous stand.

The Pavilion Stand’s premium hospitality lounge is called the Jaguar Club, after the luxury car maker signed a new multi-year sponsorship agreement with Warwickshire County Cricket Club.

Executive boxes, located on the third tier, offer superior viewing and private balcony seating. The shell features over 4000m2 of the Tata History of the ground is given great Steel 42/960 sinsusoidal profile, installed prominence, occupying the first floor of the horizontally in a highly-attractive Metallic stand with 14 zones for visitors replacing Silver (RAL 9006) abrasion-resistant surface the club museum. (ARS) coated aluminium finish, plus 0.4mm Tata Steel LP1000 Liner in Brilliant White, An impressive curved external shell, on the sandwiching a rock-fibre insulation layer to Edgbaston Road side of the ground, hangs achieve current standards. over the entrance. This provides extra space for a revamped players’ rooms and gym, Northampton-based installation contractor a members’ lounge and The 1882 Club, Deane Roofing & Cladding Limited carried named after the year the club was formed. out the relatively complex wall cladding installation on the Pavilion Stand. “We were therefore easily able to achieve the critical overlapping of sheets on a The 42/960 sheets were supplied in a wide very complex and ambitious wall cladding range of lengths, getting progressively design.” wider towards the centre of the wall, to assist curving in sections.

A series of secret gutters were positioned along each grid line, as part of a range of measures designed to ensure adequate rainwater drainage of the striking external facade.

Reflecting on the performance of Tata Steel 42/960 on the project, Paul Deane, of Deane Roofing & Cladding Limited, commented: “We found it to be a superb product.

“There was no variance in manufacturing quality and the profiles were extremely consistent.

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