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. accommodate a match-play volleyball court, a netball court with were consulted at all stages of the project and were regularly portable goals, a 18m x 33m 5-a-side pitch, four badminton courts updated on the progress of the build. The on-site team literally Rubb UK worked with main contractor Rubb added the MUSA logo to the front or four mini games courts. worked all day, every day to ensure that our sports hall was Newtownstewart Construction Ltd to gable end of the structure. Two 3m x 3m completed by the agreed deadline - as a client, we could not design, manufacture and construct roller shutter doors in the front and rear St Mary’s sports training centre features Rubb’s signature have asked for more.” an indoor multi sports hall for MUSA gables of the building and eight personnel galvanized internal steel frame, clad with durable PVDF coated Carl Winch | Head Teacher measuring 25m wide by 95m long with 5m doors provide access to the facility.
Paignton Sports College 42m span x 69m long BVL Taunton Vale Sports Club 24m span x 38m long BVC The 42m x 69m BVE community multi ventilation system which provides three- sports building, with 7.5m sidewalls, can and-a-half air changes per hour, and in a cater for a wide variety of sports including first for the company, an internal lift shaft badminton, netball, basketball, tennis, accessible via a bridge from the car park. Rubb Buildings Ltd manufactured and Rubb installed a high class lighting football, trampolining and hockey. delivered an indoor sports hall for Taunton system providing 750 Lux, a ventilation “Our Sports College PE department Vale Sports Club. system and a gas fired Ambi-rad heating It can be converted to accommodate 12 is buzzing at a new heightened level. system. The building was designed around badminton courts, eight basketball courts, The Hub has dramatically increased The sports facility has a span of 24m and the specifications for indoor courts as three five-a-side pitches, eight volleyball the quality of teaching and learning is 38m in length, with 8m indoor sidewalls. stipulated by England Netball. courts or four tennis courts. The layout is within PE lessons and furthered our interchangeable. Special features of the extra curricular provision. It has been The multi use sports structure features an Rubb also used design expertise to ensure Paignton Sports Hub include steel clad phenomenal and the Rubb Sports Hub inner-skin and insulation package, 3m high that the sports hall can be used for other sidewalls for added security, sidewall has made a massive impact.” steel clad sidewalls and sports rebound sports such as badminton, basketball, gutters for surface water drainage, a David Carpenter | Head of PE boards both fixed and removable. football, and hockey.
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Rubb Football Buildings hit the Premier League
Rubb has applied decades of experience in design to create indoor football buildings which provide state-of-the-art indoor training environments for all levels of sports teams, from youth amateur to professional leagues.
Highlights include bespoke indoor football training facilities for Barclays Premier League club’s Newcastle United and West Bromwich Albion. Meanwhile an exciting academy project for Sunderland AFC showcases Rubb’s widest ever clear span sports structure to date.
The custom design flexibility, speed of on-site construction and cost effective operation of Rubb indoor football facilities can help your club meet its goals with a competitive edge.
Sunderland AFC Academy 82.4m span x 65m long BVC
Rubb Buildings Ltd was a key player in the team tasked with The sports building features Rubb’s largest building span width The sidewalls and gables are constructed with stone filled gabion “It is fantastic. It is currently being used by the Academy completing a new indoor training facility for Sunderland Association to date at 82.4m. The facility measures 64m long with sidewalls of cages up to 3.8m high with the upper part clad with Larch timber. youngsters and has been described as the best facility at club Football Club. 7.75m and a central internal clearance of 10m high. level in the country. Rubb Buildings provided a solution that is A large roller shutter door (7.6m x 3.8m) provides access via the bespoke to our requirements. Sunderland’s stars of the future regularly use the Rubb training hub The structure stands 12.5m high at its apex and comprises a south gable of the building along with three personnel doors. at the Academy of Light, Cleadon following the official opening on galvanized steel frame, a white PVC clad roof, a large gutter The company supported changes in the overall facility footprint December 7, 2012. system, a Fullflow syphonic drainage system and four large vent Rubb Managing Director Ian Hindmoor said: “We are delighted and height in accordance with planning conditions to ensure roof cowls along the apex. to be associated with such a prestigious project in the north east the available space was maximised. The overall finish of the Local manufacturing SME Rubb pitched in with Tolent Construction of England. This is our largest span building to date and our third building shows the diversity of the product and service that Ltd and architects Red Box Design Group to make SAFC’s long The translucent roof allows natural daylight to illuminate the interior training facility for a premier league football club. We are looking Rubb provides.” awaited training facility plans a reality. which includes a full size indoor 3G football pitch. forward to seeing our clients use and enjoy their new venue.” Peter Weymes | SAFC Facilities Manager
8 www.rubbuk.com excellence in engineering Newcastle United Training Facility 67m span x 90m long BVL
Rubb Buildings Ltd’s design team proved to be in a league of their The 67m span by 90m long building houses a full sized indoor own after completing the Newcastle United indoor training facility. football pitch and is located at the club’s training centre in Longbenton, Newcastle. Academy development players, as well as members of the first team, have been able to use the building to train in perfect This Rubb football building was tailor-made to Newcastle United’s conditions whatever the weather. own specifications and requirements, while falling in line with local planning restrictions. Rubb UK first approached Newcastle United with the idea of using a Rubb indoor football training facility after hearing that the club Newcastle United FC needed an area that was large enough to was looking for an indoor training centre as an integral part of hold a full sized pitch and high enough to provide headroom for its football academy. After discussing proposals for the training throw-ins and free kicks. In addition the building needed to be in facility, the client was impressed with what Rubb UK could offer. place within a fairly short time-frame.
West Bromwich Albion Training Complex 70m span x 105m long BVC
Rubb Buildings won this contract following an extensive tendering The PVC coated polyester membrane cladding flies the club process and went on to provide a turnkey indoor football training colours of dark blue and white and the translucent roof provides facility large enough to accommodate a full size football pitch. a bright and airy atmosphere. This helps reduce energy costs as artificial lighting is not required during the day. Rubb rose to the challenge and provided an indoor football training building measuring 70m wide by 105m long with sidewalls of 7m. The West Bromwich Albion FC Community Sports Hall was built on Rubb’s use of an I-beam column leg system as an alternative to the same site as the club’s indoor training centre. This project was lattice truss construction maximises the internal playing area. sponsored by Barclays Bank as part of the Kids in the Community initiative. West Bromwich Albion’s indoor training facility meets with all local building codes and post production hot dip galvanizing to BS The sports centre includes changing facilities complete with ISO EN 1461 standards ensures the structure’s steel surfaces are showers, an office and an equipment storage area. The local protected against corrosion. community now benefits from the facility.
10 www.rubbuk.com excellence in engineering Netball Facilities
Rubb has been courting success in the field of netball over the last few years after completing a number of different indoor netball facilities.
Using knowledge and experience gained over many years, Rubb has designed and constructed ideal indoor netball facilities for all levels, from schools to national clubs.
As with the majority of Rubb structures, our netball sports buildings are designed to provide many benefits over conventional buildings including rapid installation, superior structural performance and low life cycle costs.
Rubb’s recent purpose built netball facilities include projects for Blue Flames Sporting Club, Budehaven Community School and Stourport Sports Club.
Budehaven Sports Hub 39.5m span x 35m long BVE
Netball and tennis are on the curriculum at Managing Director Ian Hindmoor said: sports hub in Cornwall. “The steel clad sidewalls add protection and the white fabric allows natural light Gateshead based Rubb Buildings Ltd to penetrate into the hall to provide a light beat off competition to become the main and airy atmosphere ideal for both sports. subcontractor responsible for the design, manufacture and installation of the facility “This is the third project of its kind in the at Budehaven Community School, a area. Rubb has already completed sports specialist sports college. complexes for Paignton Community and Sports College and Taunton Vale Sports Rubb came onboard after main contractor Club. Leadbitter won the contract following a competitive tender process. “We are looking forward to seeing the latest facility being used by the pupils The project started out as a one court of Budehaven School and the local tennis hall which grew into a two court hall community.” Blue Flames Sporting Club after more funding was secured. Then the 47m span x 66m long BVC design was changed to also accommodate “The new sports facility is an iconic two netball courts. building for both the school and wider communities. It has enabled us to This involved increasing the height of enhance the sporting provision for Rubb’s flair for architectural details is in through the semi-translucent roof. This the building while maintaining the overall our 1300 students and feeder primary clearly displayed by Blue Flames Sporting natural lighting not only saves on energy footprint. schools. Club’s indoor netball facility at Longbenton, costs but also provides a lighter, brighter Newcastle upon Tyne. and more appealing sports activity The custom designed sports hall measures “The facility supports the development environment than other structures. 39.5m x 35m with 7.2m high sidewalls of of two growing sports of netball and Blue Flames’ reverse curved roof provided which three metres are steel clad. tennis in the town. The netball hub a construction challenge, with Rubb The 47m span x 66m long Blue Flames is now at the heart of our school and having to ensure a seamless curve on both multi sports netball facility stands adjacent Rubb was responsible for providing the community leisure provision and will the steel framework and the PVC cladding. to the Newcastle United Indoor Football steel framed superstructure which is provide a lasting legacy.” One of the key features of these indoor Centre, another one of Rubb’s premier clad with a PVDF coated polyester fabric Mrs Denise May MBE | Director of Sport and netball facilities is the natural light allowed sports structures. membrane. Assistant Headteacher at Budehaven
12 www.rubbuk.com excellence in engineering Custom Facilities
Our experienced engineers work closely with architects to Engineered fabric buildings can be designed to meet any produce imaginative solutions to specific site or application international building code with respect to wind or snow loading problems. and have been proven over many years in extreme climatic conditions. Rubb provides innovative cost effective solutions with durable/ long lasting, quickly erected tension fabric buildings that are From Arctic to tropical and desert locations, Rubb prefabricated available in a wide variety of sizes, colours and shapes. structures provide outstanding service for an increasingly wide range of applications. Each plant features state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment and CAD systems that have been developed over the years to ensure Rubb provides innovative solutions with tension fabric structures that Rubb buildings meet stringent quality standards. that meet a wide variety of customer-specific requirements, while meeting strict building regulations. We combine imagination At Rubb, ISO 9001 Quality Assurance procedures are the and practical experience plus engineering and manufacturing foundation for all operations, from initial briefing through to final expertise to produce cost-effective solutions that meet or exceed commissioning. our customers’ expectations.
LeAF Elite Athlete Academy 32m span x 40m long BVE
A Bournemouth school is going for gold following the completion of a beach volleyball The volleyball hall features Rubb’s traditional galvanized internal “The indoor beach volleyball facility was used as an Olympic hall. LeAF Elite Athlete Academy, formerly Oakmead College of Technology, took steel frame, but with a new design. A tapered lattice leg facilitates training venue. LeAF Campus hosted men’s and women’s delivery of 1202m² of sand for the facility at its LeAF Campus on Duck Lane, Dorset. the curved roof design specified by the school’s architect Trinity international teams from Brazil, Greece, and Great Britain as Architecture. they prepared to qualify for the London Olympics in 2012. Rubb Buildings Ltd was tasked with the design, manufacture and delivery of the 32m span x 40m long sports building which includes two internal beach volleyball courts, The building is clad with durable PVDF coated fabric, providing The courts provide three full size match courts or four training complete with sand pits to represent a beach environment. blue walls and a white translucent roof. Rubb added the LeAF courts and the international players believe it to be one of the Campus logo to both gable ends of the structure. Four doors, best purpose built facilities in Europe.” The Rubb sports facility has sidewalls of 10.8m and boasts a clear playing height of one in each gable and sidewall, provide access to the volleyball Annetta Minard | Executive Headteacher 10m inside. training facility.
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