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Custom sport structures Rubb innovative indoor sports buildings Advantage points Clear Bright Custom Sports Structures Rubb’s unrivaled skills and experience in delivering specialist sports buildings enable us to design, fabricate, deliver and install responsibly engineered structures which fully Rubb Buildings Ltd has been pioneering the design and Rubb’s translucent roofing systems provide an internal light and meet our clients’ needs in the sporting sector. manufacture of permanent and relocatable fabric engineered airy atmosphere, effectively bringing the outdoors indoors while buildings since 1968. protecting players from the elements. • Steel/fabric hybrid designs • Superior corrosion protection The design and planning flexibility, speed of construction and Rubb structures feature high strength PVC coated polyester • Proven durability • Fire retardant fabric membrane durable cost effective operation of Rubb buildings provide sports membrane cladding that is tensioned over an engineered steel • High quality materials • Low life cycle cost groups worldwide with safe facilities for players and their activities. frame system. This design provides many benefits including rapid • Bright, clear span efficient space • Fast custom design and construction All Rubb sports buildings can be custom designed to any size or installation, superior structural performance and low life cycle shape, accommodating a wide variety of sports. costs. • Modular design flexibility • First class customer service Contents Accreditations Multi sports 4 - 7 Meadowbank Sports Arena Ipswich Academy St Mary’s Training Centre Paignton Sports College Mid Ulster Sports Arena Taunton Vale Sports Club Football 8 - 11 Sunderland AFC Newcastle United FC West Bromwich Albion FC About the Rubb Group Netball 12 - 13 Rubb started making engineered fabric structures in Norway in All Rubb UK products are designed and manufactured at our plant 1968 and has gone on to become a world leader in the design, in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. Blue Flames Sporting Club manufacture, delivery and erection of fabric building solutions. Budehaven Sports Hub Rubb provides a well-engineered steel or aluminium frame and Rubb Buildings Ltd, UK, was founded in 1977 and has a proud a PVC coated polyester fabric cover which is tensioned over the history of delivering innovative and quality structures to a wide frame to provide a tight fitting shell. Variations include provisions range of clients. for alternative materials, such as steel cladding. Highlights include our ground-breaking military hangars, Rubb has earned a reputation for tackling unique projects with Custom 14 - 16 sunshades, shelters, warehouses and workshops, specialist a strong commitment to building codes and standards. Our sports buildings and storage buildings for a variety of sectors customers’ needs are paramount from quotation to project LeAF Elite Athlete Academy including aviation, ports, construction, bulk storage, energy and completion and beyond. We also have engineering facilities in environmental (waste and recycling). Norway and the USA. 2 www.rubbuk.com excellence in engineering Multi Sports Arenas Combination or multi use buildings offer a flexible and cost Quick Construction, Lasting Value effective solution to meet the seasonal demands associated with university, college or school athletics. Being able to Affordability and rapid erection help limit the construction offer many sports in one building maximizes the value of that impact on-site and in communities. With natural light dispersed structure. through the translucent architectural roof membrane, operating a Rubb sports building is affordable as daytime lighting costs are Rubb multi use facilities incorporate a continuous indoor space minimised. with an area of solid floor surface that can accommodate a variety of field and court sports such as football, hockey, lacrosse, Gaelic You can expand your facility over time to suit your changing football, rugby, cricket, basketball, volleyball, gymnastics and requirements. Multiple Rubb sports buildings can also be erected tennis. at different times and linked through walkway tunnels to create a modern, naturally lit, affordable sports complex. The floor can function as one large playing surface or be sub- divided into smaller areas for younger age groups or training Rubb facilities can be resold, re-configured, relocated and reused programmes. Sport surfaces can be divided using moveable in a multitude of different applications. With life spans of more than rebound walls, nets or more permanent dividers. 30 years, a Rubb sports building is a sound long-term investment. Ipswich Academy 20m span x 70m long BVC The new campus is made up of two Thermohall cladding is a composite buildings, a main block which houses structure consisting of a durable PVC innovative spaces for teaching, and a layer and non-combustible glass wool sports block, which is a custom-made part high density insulation core inside an fabric structure containing a mix of spaces air-tight pocket and a self-cleaning PVC as well as a main sports hall. Alongside the inner layer. The insulated panel system sports building is a new all-weather sports provides a full vapour seal which reduces pitch built to FIFA ** standards. infiltration losses, minimises thermal bridging, reducing condensation on The split level 20m span x 70m long framing members and improves insulation sports complex boasts a 7m high x 33m efficiency. The environmentally controlled long playing area based on a four court building facilitates internal heating and badminton hall. This area, situated at air conditioning. Three A-rated UPVC the rear of the building, can also be windows provide lighting to the facility. converted to one basketball court, one netball court, one tennis court or one “Rubb provided an ingenious solution Meadowbank Sports Arena 5-aside football pitch. A 4m high x 37 long for our new school; they were able amenities block completes the front of the to offer a design for a sports hall that 70m span x 145m long BVC facility and includes an entrance lobby, a met our requirements and those of the dance studio, executive studio, changing planning authorities for a contemporary At 70m span x 145m long, with sidewalls kingspan steel clad sidewalls for added facilities, four store rooms, a seminar room sports facility but which was affordable of 9m, the complex is the largest of its kind security. The facility also features a and a construction zone. Visitors to the and deliverable within the original in Europe. 3.2m wide x 205m long viewing platform building enter via the main aluminium, planning timelines. The sports hall comprising 450 stadium seats, five glass panelled entrance which is operated has surpassed our expectations; it Rubb tailor designed and manufactured wheelchair refuge points and five electrically. was delivered to time and budget and this multi use sports facility for a variety of staircases which are fully handrailed. because of its innovative design, it activities including tennis, netball, hockey, The sports structure features Rubb’s was able to enhance the opportunities badminton, football and a five lane indoor “We find one of the strongest facets of traditional galvanized internal BVC type offered by Ipswich Academy. I would 300m running track. the building is its versatility. The facility steel frame. The walls from the ground up recommend Rubb to anyone considering has obviously raised the profile of the feature 4m high, 100mm thick insulated investing in new sports facilities; it is a The facility is a hybrid structure constructed district - Meadowbank Multi Sports steel cladding, providing a U-value of company that offers great solutions that with a traditionally built brick amenities Arena is now seen as a regional and 0.21w/m²k. Rubb’s Thermohall insulated in my experience are delivered on time block integrated into a Rubb building with national facility.” cladding completes the upper walls and and to budget.” a PVC fabric roof to let in natural light, and John McClaughlin |CEO Magherafelt Council roof. Steve Hawley | Estates / Facilities Manager 4 www.rubbuk.com excellence in engineering St Mary’s Sport Training Centre Mid Ulster Sports Arena 20m span x 48m long BVE 25m span x 95m long BVC A multi sports centre has been making a real splash in Puddletown, fabric, providing dark juniper green walls and a white translucent Multi sports and 5-aside football have a sidewalls and an apex height of 9.2m. The Dorset. St Mary’s C.E. Middle School opened its new indoor sports roof. This allows natural light inside for a bright playing environment new arena at Mid-Ulster. Rubb Buildings sports hall divides into two 5-aside pitches facility on July 12th as the 2012 Olympic Torch passed through the which saves on added energy costs. Ltd helped Mid-Ulster sporting community and one multi sports area with netting and town. score a new indoor multi sports facility in removable rebound boards. Within the building there are two partitions which create a 20m x Cookstown, Northern Ireland. Rubb Buildings Ltd worked with main contractor Greenslade to 9m storage area and a 20m x 6m changing area at each gable end The multi sports structure includes Rubb’s provide a 20m span x 48m long sports hall with sidewalls of 5m, respectively. Two roller shutter doors provide access to and from The Mid Ulster Sports Arena (MUSA) is traditional galvanized internal steel frame. featuring a multi use games area large enough to accommodate a the storage area via the hall and outside. Three metre high steel a state-of-the-art outdoor sports facility The walls from the ground up feature 3m full size basketball court. cladding protects the building’s external walls. owned by Cookstown District Council, high steel cladding. A PVDF coated fabric designed to meet the requirements of a tension membrane completes the blue The area, 8.4m high at the building’s apex, can also be adapted to “The service provided by the Rubb team was outstanding; we wide range of different sports. upper walls and white roof.