Buro Happold Sports Projects

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SPORTS AND STADIA

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“We elect to work with Buro Happold because they are sensitive to our design intentions and sustainability is always present in their thinking and decision making. The goals and expectations of the project are first and foremost in their mind, and as such, they are great teammates and leaders throughout the entire design process.” Kim Groves Principal, Morphosis

“Working with Buro Happold has enabled us to take our aspirations for innovative design and building performance to a whole new level. Buro Happold’s integration of energy modeling into our conceptual design process is helping us carry the architecture of habitation into the 21st Century.” John Ruble Principal, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and Planners

“To bring together the aesthetics of design, the engineering embedded in the design, the actual engineering of the structure and the construction of it is a real challenge, that’s why you hire world-class people.” Shirley Ann Jackson President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

“...invaluable in creating and evaluating innovative and cost effective solutions for comfort ventilation, natural day lighting, energy optimization, and solar impacts...their efforts have been instrumental in exceeding the client’s goal of a LEED Silver rating for the facility...” Randolph J. Volenec Sr. Project Manager, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

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ABOUT BURO HAPPOLD

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About Buro Happold: Firm Profile

Overview Established in 1976, Buro Happold is a global design organization with an international network of 25 offices and over 1,500 staff. With five offices in the United States and over $1B of completed work from East Coast to West, Buro Happold’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices are part of a single California based profit center that includes 60 engineers, building physicists and BIM technicians in the following disciplines: • • • • • • • •

Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln, NE, USA

Structural and Facade Engineering Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Protection MEP/FP Sustainability + LEED Consulting Fire Engineering Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Transportation Water Management Waste Management

Our structural engineers utilize a suite of analytical software to optimize the building, facade or art piece geometry to perfect the design, weight of the structure and the embodied energy. We specialize in the following areas: • • • •

Facade Engineering High Rise Long Span Structures Art and Sculptural Complex Structures

Ottawa Lansdowne Stadium, Ottawa, Canada

Our MEP engineers work with the whole design team to inform the building form, orientation and materials to satisfy the external and internal design criteria, incorporating a global view of energy consumption, embodied energy and sustainability into the design. The whole process is highly iterative with special focus in: • • • • • •

Energy Modeling Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Analysis TRNSYS System Optimization Modeling Laboratory Design Lighting Design Post Occupancy Evaluation 2012 Olympics, London, UK

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Our Philosophy Buro Happold has established itself as a next generation multi-disciplinary engineering and consulting firm. In combination with our worldwide office network, our North American west coast practice provides seamless delivery for our clients. Buro Happold’s west coast team consists of 65 engineers, building physicists and BIM technicians. Rigor – the Buro Happold Way. We blend technical expertise with rigorous analysis, modeling and testing of ideas. The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) is a great illustration of this approach to a LEED Platinum project incorporating the largest use of ETFE in North America.

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Integrated Design – Open Plan, Open Mind. We operate in open plan office space, devoid of discipline segregation, working together in a highly collaborative environment. Sensitive and open to the architect’s ideas, our fluent use of BIM allows us to quickly test ideas in real time. Metrics - Proving Success. We use a variety of metrics combined with the BIM model allowing end users to measure performance during future operation of the building; an example is Morphosis’ Offices for which we are conducting a post occupany evaluation. Global Experience, Locally Applied. In the past 35 years we have grown a successful business by working on the best projects, with the best people. We learn from our past, bringing the lessons of each project forward to inform the next. Sustainability – Of Course. Sustainability is not a separate discipline but a core value that informs all sectors of our practice. Incorporating sustainability into every design, we save costs while maximizing performance as illustrated in our Genzyme Headquarters project, the first LEED Platinum office building in North America.

San Francisco Office

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Our Integrated, Multidisciplinary Practice We pride ourselves on tackling the largest and most complex projects, often with aggressive schedules and stringent performance goals, providing the best possible service by creating a streamlined and efficient team with strong technical delivery. Our successful approach to executing projects earned us the recent commission for the new PNC Bank Headquarters in Pittsburgh expected to set standards for environmentally friendly skyscrapers. The building is a 40-story, $400M office building for 3,000 employees. The 800,000 sf tower will be built on a three story podium, with an additional 150,000 sf of belowgrade parking. It is anticipated the project will exceed USGBC LEED Platinum requirements. Buro Happold is providing the following services: • Structural Engineering • MEP Engineering • Fire Engineering • Sustainability

Buro Happold is providing SMEP engineering for the PNC Bank Headquarters in Pittsburgh. Striving for LEED Platinum.

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Significant Sports and Stadia Expertise Buro Happold provides engineering for complete sports developments, stadiums, arenas, ballparks, aquatic centers and convention centers. Buro Happold engineers work as part of a design team with architects and other professionals, providing either a specific discipline or the total engineering input. A multi-disciplinary approach helps us to deliver more effective responses from the important early stages of design through to final implementation and subsequent operation and maintenance. Sports and entertainment facilities often assume iconic status. As such, the engineering design must strive to achieve the architect’s vision. For us, this successful fusion of architecture and engineering is a guiding principle which we have successfully applied to an impressive range of projects. We design facilities from the perspective of both the owner and the fan - we work to provide an enhanced player and fan experience, as well as an improved facility that can provide an owner with a good platform for supporting and growing their business. Reconciling the architect’s vision and the business aims of the client with the needs of the user, while demonstrating sensitivity to historical and social context, requires a special combination of skills and experience.

We do regional, national and international stadia; we do new, refurbished and temporary stadia; we are the chosen engineers of the London Olympics... Buro Happold is sensitive to all of these considerations in addressing the engineering issues prevalent in the design of sports and leisure facilities. There is no such thing as a typical design solution: each and every one must be tailored to suit the individual expectations, aspirations and history of the specific sports club. Long Span Buro Happold is well experienced in long span roof design, construction and coordination. The understanding of efficient long span design must take into account constructability issues, as the cost of long span roof is not only measured in steel weight but also in the complexity of the design, connections and erection procedures.

Emirates Stadium, London, UK

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SELECTED PROJECTS

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The new $180M arena in Lincoln, Nebraska and future home of the Nebraska Cornhuskers men and women’s basketball programs has recently broken ground. The arena will seat 16,000 and have expansion capabilities to 18,000 seats. The design team is lead by DLR Group out of Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska with structural engineers Buro Happold, New York and MEP engineers M-E Group, Denver. The construction manager is Mortenson/Hampton Construction. The site is particularly challenging, as the arena bowl situated between existing railroad tracks on two sides that will not be fully removed until 1 year into the construction. The use of Revit, 3D Building Information Modeling provided a significant benefit to the project team during design and the 3D models will be used by Mortenson/ Hampton during construction. Premium seating options will include three premium seating options: suites, loge boxes and club seats. Each option will include parking in a VIP parking garage as well as other amenities.

Key project information Client Architect Project value Dates

City of Lincoln/University of Nebraska DLR Group $180M Completion expected in 2013

Services provided by Buro Happold Structural engineering

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Pinnacle Bank Arena Lincoln, NE, USA

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Emirates Stadium, Arsenal Football Club London, UK

The overall form and structural configuration of the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal FC’s new home since August 2006, was derived by striving for a balance between a wide range of factors. The main design drivers included: • The aim for high quality viewing standards • The desire for an awe inspiring atmosphere within the spectator arena • The desire to maximize the quality of the pitch microclimate • The desire for the stadium form to be iconic and instantly recognizable as the home of Arsenal Football Club • The limitations imposed by the tight site footprint and the proximity of the site to existing Network Rail and London Underground lines • The height restrictions embodied within local planning legislation • Restrictions on budget and construction period. The resulting configuration is an approximately elliptical plan-form, featuring five main levels of accommodation and four seating tiers, yet is contained within a compact site footprint and also respects the height restriction imposed by local planners. The roof form features a constant eaves line around the entire perimeter, and then slopes downwards towards the pitch. This creates naturally dished form that enhances the pitch microclimate and the atmosphere within the arena.


Arsenal Football Club Sports Architecture $288M Completed in 2006

Services provided by Buro Happold Structural engineering, MEP engineering, façade engineering, ground engineering, bridge engineering, civil engineering, fire engineering, design & risk assessment (FEDRA), disability design consultancy, security consultancy

The Ottawa Lansdowne Stadium project is a renovation of the existing stadium. The renovated stadium is being designed to accommodate professional, university and community sports – soccer, lacrosse, football – and events such as concerts. The new stadium will have 24,000 seats, 318 of which will be wheelchair accessible, 26 corporate boxes, 4 locker rooms, and field/turf surface. The stadium will also feature an organically shaped wooden canopy structure that reinforces its iconic stature in Canadian Football.


Trinity Development Group Inc. Halsall Associates Confidential Completion expected in 2013


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Ottawa Lansdowne Stadium Ottawa, Canada

Part of the city of Natal proposal to serve as a host venue for the 2014 World Cup, the stadium is a harmonious incorporation of different structural components. The steel structure for the roof is made up of large curved cantilevering trusses. These are held back by the concrete raker beams that make up the concrete stands. At the same time the depth of the roof allows for the incorporation of light ETFE pillows for transparency which create a dynamic and exciting pattern in the roof scape. Key project information Client Architect Project value Dates

Confidential Populous and Coutinho, Diegues, Cordeiro Arquitetos Confidential Completion expected in 2014


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Natal Stadium Natal, Brazil

Tecate Stadium will be the new home for Club de Fútbol Monterrey (the Rayados) from April 2011. Upon completion the 50,000 seat stadium will be one of the premier football and concert venues in Central and South America. The key design features include: • An elliptical seating bowl that will offer the highest quality viewing standards available • A metal clad iconic amorphous envelope that will facilitate a thriving atmosphere both during football games and rock concerts • A wide open view of the spectacular Cerro de la Silla mountain achieved by virtue of the amorphous roof shape • A series of dramatic sculptural vertical concrete elements located in the vast circulation volume behind the seating bowl that invoke the legacy of Pier Luigi Nervi There are two main tiers of seating, with two levels of luxury suites located on intermediate levels and a large restaurant at the southern end of the stadium. The basement provides extensive parking and club facilities. Key project information Client Architect Project value Dates

FEMSA HOK Sport $175M Completion expected in 2011

Services provided by Buro Happold Structural engineering (concept and schematic design)

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Tecate Stadium, Club de Fútbol Monterrey, Mexico

Located in the heart of the Olympic Park, a previously rundown industrial area of East London, the Stadium now forms the center piece of the largest new park created in Europe for a century. In legacy the Stadium will create a world class athletics venue for the communities within London and beyond. Designed with an 80,000 capacity for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Stadium is designed such that it can be dismantled down to a 25,000 capacity venue if required for its longer term use. Buro Happold worked as part of ‘Team Stadium’, an integrated design and construction team led by Sir Robert McAlpine, and including Populous as architects and HED as landscape architects. This collaborative and integrated approach to the project has created a simple dismantlable superstructure with an innovative lightweight cable supported roof. Implementing a significant amount of prefabrication of concrete and steel elements early on meant that the program, quality of work and safety were protected. Significant milestones including the lift of the inner tension ring from its temporary scaffolding structure to its final position could not have been achieved without the ingenuity and integration of the whole team. Sustainability has played a huge part in informing the Stadium’s design and construction, to meet the ODA’s high targets and priority themes. The embodied energy consumed in manufacturing the Stadium’s elements was far less than other Olympic stadia, due to the compact design. Where possible the team reused existing materials, for example, the Compression Truss to the roof was constructed by using 4,000 tons of unwanted gas pipeline found in a yard in Yorkshire. The permanent building services installation has been designed to exacting standards for limiting carbon emissions during operation.

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London 2012 Olympic Stadium London, UK

Commitment, innovation and close collaboration between architecture, engineering and construction has resulted in an elegant, bold, inspirational, efficient and sustainable Stadium that reflects the Olympic principals of respect, friendship and excellence and above all supports and provides the foundations to the vision “to build a better world through sport”.

Key project information Client Olympic Delivery Authority Design-Build Contractor Sir Robert McAlpine Architect Populous Landscape Architect HED Completed in 2011 Dates Services provided by Buro Happold Structural engineering, building services engineering, civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, geoenvironmental consultancy, fire engineering, inclusive design consultancy, security consultancy, sustainability advice, computational simulation and analysis, CDM co-ordinator services,

Completed two months ahead of the contract completion date and under budget with an outstanding safety record, the Stadium will provide the facilities required to put on and operate the Olympic and Paralympic Games for athletes, the Olympic Family, competition management and for the international press and broadcast media, not only for the athletic events but also for the opening and closing ceremonies. Image: ODA

Buro Happold is the engineer for the EDAW consortium, which was appointed in January 2006 to develop design proposals for the London 2012 Olympic Park and sitewide infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Other consortium members within the EDAW led team were architects Allies & Morrison and Populous. As lead designers, the consortium was supported by Arup and WS Atkins, who have also been appointed to assist with the project. This team was tasked with further developing the London 2012 Olympic Park masterplan and beginning to design all the site-wide infrastructure elements within it including utilities, waterways, drainage, landscape, roads and bridges. The team has not designed the venues or Athletes’ Village.

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Olympic Park Design and Site-wide Infrastructure London, UK

Key project information Client Dates

Olympic Delivery Authority Ongoing

Services provided by Buro Happold Masterplanning, site remediation, hydrology, ecology, waste management, utilities, security, topographical design, earthworks modelling, river engineering, flood risk assessment and prevention, energy and sustainability strategies, bridge engineering, highways design and traffic engineering, fire engineering design and risk assessment

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Baylor University Football Stadium Waco, TX, USA

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STEEL ROOF 600-ROOF 122' - 3"

500-PRESS LEVEL 109' - 9"

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The Baylor University Football Stadium is a new stadium in Waco, Texas planned for approximately 41,405 seats. In addition, an Event Center is proposed at the Southeast corner housing a 150 seat auditorium. The stadium will be located along the north bank of the Brazos River on the Baylor University campus. Currently the site is partially occupied by a lagoon that is connected to the river. This body of water will need to be drained and filled to make way for the project.

300-CLUB/UPPER CONCOURSE 41' - 0"

200-MAIN CONCOURSE 17' - 0"

110-PLINTH LEVEL 1' - 0" 100-SERVICE LEVEL -3' - 0" 000-FIELD LEVEL 0' - 0"

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Client Architect Project value Dates

Baylor University Populous Confidential Completion expected in 2013

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Services provided by Buro Happold Structural engineering, facades engineering, shadow and daylight studies, roof analysis

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Buro Happold was appointed by Barr Construction to provide the engineering design for Everton’s new 50,000 seat stadium, located in Kirkby. Provision was made to ensure that the stadium capacity can be expanded to 60,000 in the future as well as provisions for hospitality for 1,700 people, expandable to 3,750 people with 24 boxes. The utilities and shell infrastructure will accommodate future expansion. Only the second-floor is to feature conditioned, insulated spaces suitable for premium-level type activities. The first floor and third floor are to be unconditioned spaces, ventilated by a combination of natural ventilation and extract to toilets and kiosks.

Key project information Client Project value Dates

Barr Technical Services $103M Completed in 2009

Services provided by Buro Happold Building services, structures, FEDRA, acoustics, infrastructure and ground engineering, CoSA

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Everton Football Stadium Kirkby, UK

With the construction of the O2 Arena completed, a new lease of life is infused into the famous Millennium Dome on Greenwich Peninsula. The O2 is one of the UK’s most exciting and technically advanced music, sport and entertainment destinations. The O2 Arena is the centrepiece of the area and provides London with a 23,000 capacity state-of-theart venue, surrounded by an exciting entertainment district comprising a mixture of leisure attractions, bars, restaurants, cafes and shops. The entertainment district includes the O2 music club with a capacity of over 2,000, an 1,800 capacity theater and the O2 exhibition bubble which is able to host large scale visiting international exhibitions, such as King Tutankhamen in 2007. Occupying the central zone of the O2, the bowl shaped arena’s diameter is 500 ft and lies within the confines of the existing dome. Much of the existing infrastructure is being retained as are the plant cylinders that house the services, such as electrical switch gear. Existing piles within the floor are also being incorporated into the design where possible and appropriate. The design team tasked with transforming the venue into an indoor arena and world-class entertainment venue comprised Populous, Buro Happold and main contractor, Sir Robert McAlpine.


Anschutz Entertainment Group Populous $160M Completed in 2007

Services provided by Buro Happold Structural engineering, MEP engineering, site infrastructure, fire engineering design and risk assessment, acoustic consulting

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The O2 Arena London, UK

One of the most recognized landmarks in the UK and the largest of its kind in the world, the Millennium Dome was completed in 1999 in readiness for the national turn-ofthe-century celebrations. The Dome was built to house a series of exhibition spaces and core buildings. This was a multidisciplinary project incorporating each service offered by Buro Happold at the time and involving every UK Buro Happold office. Extensive remediation work was required prior to construction to render the site fit for use. The roof of the Dome is an enormous cable net, 1,000 feet in diameter and clad in 860,000 square feet of tensioned PTFE coated glass fiber fabric. It is an innovative feat of engineering yet simple in concept, and was the recipient of the prestigious MacRobert Award in 1999. The roof surface is shaped like a spherical cap. Twelve 330 foot-high steel masts extend from the roof that support a tensioned net of steel cables, arranged radially on the surface of the Dome and held in place by hangar and tie-down cables at 82 foot intervals. An inner layer of covering reduces thermal gain and improves thermal and acoustic performance. Our MEP engineers ingeniously opted to house primary electrical and mechanical plant in 12 steel cylinders that surround the dome, in order to incorporate the architect’s aesthetic desires.


The New Millennium Experience Company Limited Richard Rogers Partnerships $1.2B Completed in 1999

Services provided by Buro Happold Structural engineering, long span and lightweight structures engineering, façade engineering, planning supervision, site supervision, quantity surveying, geotechnical engineering, waste water solutions, site infrastructure, building aervices wngineering, fire safety design and risk assessment and project management

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The Millennium Dome Greenwich, London, UK

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Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and Northumberland Development Project London, UK The Northumberland Development Project encompasses a new Tottenham Hotspur football stadium, and the regeneration of approx 20 acres of land within Haringey in north London. A new 58,000 seat stadium, providing a stunning spectator experience and the highest quality of safety and access is planned, surrounded by well-designed public space that provides space for fans on match days and supports community activities at other times. There will be a hotel, a new club shop and club museum, as well as offices for the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation. Surrounding derelict land will be redeveloped to provide a new supermarket and 450 new homes, as well as making significant improvements to the High Road, preserving listed buildings and green spaces. Buro Happold is providing engineering services for the development, including structural engineering, building services engineering, civil and geotechnical engineering, fire engineering, sustainability consultancy and access consultancy. Key aspects of the engineering design include transport engineering, to ensure the development meets the needs of supporters, customers and residents alike, building on successful transport strategies already adopted, and promoting sustainable

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transport solutions that integrate with existing public provision; crowd movement modelling in order to manage the large number of pedestrians in a busy built-up area; geo-environmental engineering to promote best practice in the development of this brownfield site; and utility engineering, working with the existing infrastructure to develop robust and sustainable service supply solutions to the new development.

Key project information Client Architect Dates

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Stadium - KSS Design Retail/residential/ site wide - Make Architects Ongoing

Services provided by Buro Happold Structural engineering, building services engineering, civil and geotechnical engineering, fire engineering design and risk assessment, sustainability consultancy, access consultancy

Ascot is arguably the world’s most famous race venue with Royal patronage dating back to 1711. It hosts a number of premier events including the famous Royal Ascot meeting in June. The Ascot Authority’s aspiration to redevelop Ascot as the ‘finest racecourse in the world’, will provide spectators and visitors with world class racing and viewing facilities. The project entailed a thorough reorganization and rebuilding of the facilities at Ascot. Buro Happold provided all the structural and ground engineering, building services and infrastructure design for this challenging project. It represents a high profile showcase for our integrated, multidisciplinary skills. The project comprised two main components: the enlargement of the current site and the construction of a new grandstand. The enlarged site was created by relocating the existing ‘Straight Mile’ track 42m to the north. Two major road underpasses provide the track with permanent crossings to an existing road, as well as serving as access routes to prevent traffic congestion on race days. Key project information Client Architect Project value Dates

Ascot Authority (Holdings) Ltd HOK SVE £ 125M Completed in 2006

Services provided by Buro Happold Structural engineering, building services, contamination and site remediation consultancy, geotechnical engineering, civil engineering and transport planning

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Ascot Racecourse Redevelopment Ascot, UK

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Aviva Stadium Dublin, Ireland

Buro Happold undertook the structural, civil and geotechnical engineering for this 50,000 seat stadium built for both the Irish Rugby Football Union and the Football Association of Ireland. The new stadium is on the site of the old Lansdowne Road Stadium, which was the home of the Irish International rugby and soccer teams from 1878 and the mid 1970s respectively. The new stadium consists of a continuous curvilinear shaped stand enclosing all four sides of the ground. The south, east and west stands all have four tiers of seating with the majority of the spectators alongside the pitch. On the north side there is just the one tier as the stadium comes down dramatically in height to minimize the impact of the building on the adjoining neighborhood. The roof of the new stadium is approximately 620 feet long in the north-south direction and 650 feet wide in the east-west direction with a covered surface of approximately 250,000 square feet. Different structural systems were required to form the roof and respond to the differing building height criteria and seating bowl configurations of each stand. The horseshoe roof truss is supported on 15m high sculpted concrete columns which spring from behind the north stand tier. From these, the facetted horseshoe truss runs around and provides cover to the east, south and west stands of the stadium, and is supported by radial “spur” trusses at each facet. These spur trusses connect to a ring truss at the back of the seating bowl which runs around the perimeter of the stadium. It is this truss which, in addition to greatly increasing the stiffness of the roof, creates the characteristic curve at the interface between wall and roof. The single tiered north stand is covered by a lightweight in-plane truss system roof, which is supported off the horseshoe truss


Lansdowne Road Stadium Development Company Populous / Scott Tallon Walker $545M Completed in 2010

Services provided by Buro Happold Structural engineering, civil engineering, ground engineering, planning supervision

Buro Happold provided structural engineering design services for this new, 30,210 seat stadium in Coimbra. The stadium has glass façades and an aesthetic roof supported by elegant stands, two-thirds of which are covered. It was completed in time for the European Football Championships 2004. This stadium project played a key role in the regeneration of the Solum district delivering a multi-purpose pavilion, olympic swimming pools, healthclub, gym, offices, residences and retail and leisure outlets in the surrounding area.


KSS Architects Plarq, Antonio Monteiro $58M Completed in 2004


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Coimbra Stadium Portugal

Brian Lara Stadium is a world class training facility and athletic center located near the Port of Spain in Trinidad. The stadium seats 15,000 people and was envisioned to compliment the natural slope of the landscape. The stadium prominently features a three-story grandstand with executive box and club seating accommodations, a four-story press tower and a sweeping, articulated steel canopy roof which cantilevers 30-meters from supporting columns. Buro Happold collaborated closely with Populous to best articulate the exposed structure and was responsible for structural engineering of the extensive system of retaining walls, pile foundations, the superstructure and roof structure and the lateral stability system. Buro Happold also optimized the structure supporting the raked seating through dynamic simulation methods to find significant savings in steel tonnage.


Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago Populous $26.5M Completed in 2008


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Brian Lara Cricket Academy Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago

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Palasport Oval Lingotto Turin, Italy

The creation of an 8,500 seat, world class speed skating arena for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games, allowing athletes to achieve outstanding performances and speed records. This new facility, along with the Olympic Village, was part of the redevelopment of the Lingotto exhibition complex on the former Fiat factory site. The design of the ice rink had to meet three key criteria: To provide optimum internal climatic conditions for speed skating; creating a flexible, dual use venue for the local community that offers skating in winter and exhibition space in the summer; and to improve the local environment as an integral part of the urban redevelopment. A key challenge of the project was the construction of the arena’s soaring 360 feet by 720 feet clear-span roof structure, which is made up of a system of arching secondary trusses and curved primary bow-trusses supported at one end on leaning ‘quadrapod’ legs. The entire steel structure is exposed and its undulating form gives the arena a stunning appearance. The roof was designed to carry substantial snow loads and hence undergoes large deflections under both snow and thermal loadings; requiring an innovative joint at the head of the facades to accommodate these movements. The building services design was driven by the tight air temperature and humidity requirements required for record breaking speed skating. The amount of sunlight entering the building had to be closely controlled, this resulted in only the north façade being glazed. Palasport Oval Lingotto received a 2007 Gold Award from the International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities (IAKS) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and won the IStructE Structural Award in 2006.

Key project information Client Architect Project value Date

Agenzia Torino 2006 HOK SVE and Studio Zoppini Associati $35M Completed in 2005

Services provided by Buro Happold Structural engineering, building services engineering, computational simulation and analysis.

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Astana Stadium Republic of Kazakhstan, Russia

Astana Stadium is architecturally one of the most important buildings of Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan and has been designed to reflect the modern and contemporary aspects of the city, with its sweeping elliptical form and innovative retractable roof. The stadium has a total seating capacity of 30,000, comprised of 14,000 in the upper tier and 16,000 in the lower stand and the field meets FIFA and UEFA criteria. Buro Happold’s engineers were responsible for the concept design for the whole stadium but also the scheme design for the movable, polycarbonate roof. The roof protects the field from the harsh climatic conditions, but also provides natural light and ventilation for the comfort of the spectators. By closing the roof the stadium can be used for multiple purpose events with heating and air conditioning. The main structure comprises of insitu reinforced concrete while prefabricated concrete elements were used in the construction of the stands to ease construction time and save on site costs. The concrete structure provides an economical yet durable structure with good resistance against weather conditions. Sections of the east and west elevations are faced in profiled aluminium cladding affording it a sleek, aesthetic quality.

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We are proud to have been a part of the multi national team who delivered this dynamic landmark for the people of Astana, working with both the Turkish contractor and the local and UK based architects to develop an organized regular structure and building based on materials and techniques familiar to the local industry or easily procured. The venue has already proved a crowd pleaser and a success since it officially opened with its first match in July 2009, it then went on to host the Opening Ceremony of the Asian Winter Games of 2011, with much fanfare and delight from the local population.

Key project information Client Sembol Construction Architect Tabanlioglu Architect Sport Consultant Populous Project value $48M Dates Completed in 2005 Services provided by Buro Happold Structural engineering

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