Category: Sports and Leisure

Architect: Architects LE1

This project was a collaboration between Oakham Rugby Club and the Rutland Agricultural Society to provide a first class sports facility with gym, medical facilities, changing rooms, and possibly the most important asset for a rugby club, a bar social space. The collaboration also provided a naturally ventilated internal exhibition space, along with acres of floodlit external rugby pitches and show ground space.

Duties: Full detail design, thermal modelling, and site inspections.

Client: Northants FA

New build football coaching facilities including changing areas, shower block, external lit 3G pitches and grass pitches. Pavilion buildings comprised of a mixture of electric heating, central hot water storage and full LED lighting.

Duties: Providing full mechanical and electrical services design for Northants FA. This  includes thermal modelling for Building Regulations Compliance, full M&E design and infrastructure coordination for gas, water, electricity, LPG, BT and Virgin Media.

Client: West Lindsey Council

New build multi-million pound leisure centre in Market Rasen located on a British heritage site. BEC carried out a full detailed design of mechanical and electrical services. The new sports facility consists of a 4-court sports hall, fitness suites, multi-use room, changing facility and an external 3G pitch.

Duties: Full detail design including an assessment of existing infrastructure.

Client: Myriad CEG Group

The Jockey Club is the largest commercial group in British horse racing. BEC completed full mechanical design which included the incorporation of a new biomass boiler to connect to the existing boiler plant within the existing jockey club and workshop plantrooms. The new biomass boiler was designed to interface with the existing heating system and calorifiers to provide heating and domestic hot water services.

Duties: Mechanical detail design including, survey of existing plantrooms, checks on existing equipment, coordination of new incoming supplies, mechanical services design and controls strategy.

Client: Grantham Tennis Club

Main Contractor: Clegg Group

New build Tennis club consisting of four internal and eight external floodlit courts, gym, changing areas and social areas. M&E services consisted of heat recovery ventilation, specialist court lighting, comfort cooling and gas fire warm air heating.

Duties: Providing full mechanical and electrical services design for the M&E services contractor. Services provided include thermal modelling for Building Regulations Compliance and to calculate PV required for a compliant scheme.

Client: Lilleshall National Sports Centre

The project included the refurbishment of an existing gym and living accommodation, with a large extension consisting of a new sports and injury clinic/rehabilitation facilities.

Duties: Providing SBEM and performance specification for M&E services.

Project Manager: Benchmark Property

The project was a new £14M water park development in Scarborough, consisting of a large indoor and outdoor pool complex with spa facilities.

Duties: Providing outline M&E design for the pool complex, along with consideration of CHP for the pool water heating.

Client: Pektron Group

Architect: Lyall & Lyall Ltd

New industrial unit located in Alfreton, Derby consisting of four units in total. Two units for future fit out, one unit for Pektron industrial manufacturing services and one unit fit out as a swimming pool.

Duties: Full building services detail design, including thermal modelling.