Sports & Leisure
Stadia, arenas and leisure centres — long spans, big crowds, hard deadlines.
Sports construction is structural theatre: long-span roofs, raked seating and bowl engineering on a scale that makes ordinary frames look modest, all programmed backwards from a fixture list or an opening ceremony that cannot move. The enabling works, foundations and frame methods are the shared ones, linked below — what sits on top is specialist.
The three guides in this sector cover stadia construction — the bowl, the roof and the terraces; sports pitches and surfaces, where the grass or track is an engineered product with drainage, heating and tolerances measured in millimetres; and leisure centres and pools, where a big tank of warm chlorinated water inside a building tests every detail of the envelope and the services.
What does Sports & Leisure cover?
Process guides in Sports & Leisure
- Stadium Construction — The specialist anatomy of a stadium: a raked bowl of precast terracing threaded with vomitories, capped by a long-span roof assembled on the ground and lifted in pieces too heavy for ordinary cranes.
- Pitches, Tracks & Playing Surfaces — Building the thing the whole venue exists for: natural turf profiles over engineered drainage, synthetic 3G carpets, polyurethane running tracks — all laid to millimetre tolerances and proven by independent certification testing.
- Leisure Centres & Swimming Pools — The wet heart of a leisure centre: water-retaining concrete pool tanks that must not leak, plant rooms that keep thousands of bathers' water clear, and a building envelope in a permanent war against warm, chlorinated air.
Shared methods used in Sports & Leisure
- Site Access & Enabling Works
- Setting Out & Survey Control
- Earthworks & Excavation
- Dewatering & Groundwater Control
- Piling & Deep Foundations
- Concrete Frame Construction
- Steel Frame Construction
- Roofing
- Façade & Cladding
- MEP First Fix
- External Works & Landscaping
- Testing, Handover & Snagging
Part of the Buildings group.