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No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the consent of the publisher. atb is published by Link2Media Ltd, The Moat House, 133 Newport Road, Stafford ST16 2EZ Tel: 01785 240883 Fax: 0845 862 8639 info@ link2media.co.uk www.link2media.co.uk @Link2Media www.link2media.co.uk/facebook pinterest.com/ link2media issuu.com/link2media at:the drawing board at:the drawing board ISG Is Preferred Contractor On £41 Million York Stadium Scheme ISG has been confirmed as the preferred construction partner as part of the successful consortium bid led by GLL for the circa £41 million York Community Stadium and Leisure Complex scheme. The project comprises a new home stadium for York’s professional football and rugby teams, as well as including leisure, retail, office and community facilities. The new mixed-use stadium development is set to become a leading leisure destination for the North of England. In addition to creating a new 8,000 all-seater stadium with high-quality hospitality and conferencing facilities, ISG will also deliver a new 25m six-lane swimming pool, state-of-the-art fitness and active play facilities, as well as a community hub, providing health and wellbeing services for local residents and visitors. The stadium’s East Stand is home to a three- storey community hub – the first of its kind in the city, providing accommodation for key partners, including York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, York Against Cancer, York St John University and Be Independent (CIC). The Trust will use space to provide training and development services, while Be Independent will offer face-to-face advice from its new stadium offices. A new high-specification linked leisure facility will replace the outdated Waterworld and Courtney’s Gym buildings, providing a main pool, with separate teaching and fun pools with fun water features for children. A multi-use sports hall for netball, basketball and badminton will have viewing for up to 250 spectators. The scheme also includes a 100-station gym with dance and spinning studios and an extreme adventure sports zone. ISG will also deliver three external floodlit 3G sports pitches, provide significant car parking provision and extend the Monks Cross Park & Ride facility. To the rear and separate from the South Stand, ISG will build a series of new retail units and a first floor cinema complex. The project is expected to commence on site in summer 2015, with completion scheduled for autumn 2016. Danny Murray, ISG’s Northern regional managing director, commented: “Our involvement in the York Community Stadium project extends back to 2012 and we have worked closely with GLL and our consortium partners to bring the vision for this keynote regional leisure scheme to reality. ISG has exceptionally strong leisure sector credentials, delivering iconic sporting venues like the Olympic Velodrome and the National Football Development Centre in Newport, and we are looking forward to working with our consortium partners to create superb new facilities for York.” www.isgplc.com 4 5 at:first news & announcements at:first at:first Type B Concrete Waterproofing – A New On Line Resource Triton’s new ‘Type B’ waterproofing website has been designed as the perfect resource for specifiers of watertight concrete structures. Triton supplies a complete range of products for structural waterproofing but this new site Make a Statement. focuses purely on the company’s BBA approved watertight concrete system that conforms to BS 8102 (2009). Surfaces for your home. 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Visit www.typebwaterproofing.co.uk Enquiry 2 The award-winning York Handmade Brick Company £8.9 million, four-storey, development houses a new is the largest independent brickmaker in the north graduate centre and research, academic, administration New Brochure of England. Founded in 1988 by chairman David offices. Armitage, the company has gone from strength to Architect Charles Thomson of Rivington Street Studio, Highlights strength. based in Shoreditch, east London, said of York St Based at Alne, near Easingwold in the heart of the Vale John: “Brick was an obvious choice of material: it is of York, York Handmade specialises in bespoke bricks durable, modular and traditional and it could be built That York for both the public and private sectors, helping to to the curves we had designed. York Handmade were create magnificent new buildings as well as conserving the obvious choice of supplier, making brick nearby historic buildings and restoring them to their former using local clays and traditional moulding and firing Handmade Is glory. To celebrate the company’s history and its recent techniques”. achievements, York Handmade has just published a “We chose the 'Old Clamp' blend of four different Built On Strong brand-new brochure, entitled Handmade Bricks To bricks, which gives a beautiful warm and richly textured Inspire. quality to the elevations. The curved wall has deep, The brochure describes how the company’s Alne recessed openings which required the manufacture of a Foundations headquarters is located in a rich seam of Lacustrine variety of 'special' corner pieces and brick 'slips' to clad clay, a mudstone laid down in the Triassic era. This the lintels. These were all supplied by York Handmade. natural resource has been utilised by brickmakers in We are delighted by the results,” said Mr Thomson. the Vale of York since Roman times. This type of clay Meanwhile a leading firm of Yorkshire architects has is very malleable, easily worked and fires to produce praised the “unique” York Handmade Brick Company a rich palette of colour – ideally suited to fashioning for providing the perfect bricks for sophisticated new detailed shapes and sizes which are the hallmark of buildings and classical renovation projects. York Handmade Brick. Digby Harris, a partner with the Bridlington-based David Armitage explained: “This is our first architects Francis Johnson Associates, commented: comprehensive new brochure since 2007 and reflects “We are immensely lucky to have the York Handmade our growing optimism in a recovering market. It Brick Company in our region. In an age when bland provides a complete snapshot of all we do from our uniformity so often prevails, it is very refreshing to have popular Maxima bricks to terracotta floor tiles. a company such as York Handmade which provides “The photographs in the brochure, which feature a such innovative and attractive bricks.” number of award-winning projects, have been taken Mr Harris continued: “Due to the specific, traditional by accomplished York photographer Jeremy Phillips and classical nature of our work, we use high-quality and showcase our work brilliantly. It is also importance bricks which recreate a very special and distinctive to mention, as our brochure does, our loyal workforce look. Since the demise of Wrays brickworks in the of 30. We pride ourselves on employing local labour, East Riding, York Handmade are the only suppliers all trained in the skills to help them become master of the specialized bricks we need. In addition, York brickmakers,” said Mr Armitage. Handmade created some superb bricks for an award- One of York Handmade’s most interesting projects winning terrace house development in St Mary’s, York, which demonstrated their expertise and craftsmanship during the past few years has been the stunning de Bianco Drift 6131 Grey Court, a new York St John University building, beautifully.” www.yorkhandmade.co.uk Enquiry 3 next to the City Walls. The company supplied 50,000 Enquiry 1 bricks to form an integral part of the project.