BSP Consulting has strengthened its expertise in the sports and leisure sector with a string of projects – some of them on the world stage.
The company carried out a flood risk assessment for a new training centre for the British elite canoeing team at Dorney Lake. Known as Eton Dorney during the London 2012 Olympics, the site was the home of the flat water rowing, canoeing and other similar events during the games.
From water sports to rugby, and our engineers were asked to undertake a ground investigation at Twickenham to look at the feasibility of constructing corporate entertainment suites for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Meanwhile, BSP has also been appointed as geotechnical, civil and structural engineer on two projects in Dagenham and Barking, in East London, to create new football changing facilities and new artificial and grass pitches to improve playing provision. BSP’s client is Academy of Dreams.
BSP is also currently civil and structural engineer for a £5.6 million sports hall and fitness complex at Loughborough University.
“We’ve worked in the sports and leisure sector for many years, but recently we’ve won a number of sports-related appointments, some of them with links to world-renowned events,” said director Clive Roddick.
Closer to home BSP has been involved in several grassroots sports projects including one at Landau Forte Academy in Tamworth where the company was involved in developing a new sports hall. The building is used primarily as an indoor cricket facility but also has a dance floor and a climbing wall.
The London football project follows a similar scheme in Leicester where BSP provided a full engineering role, including site investigation, infrastructure and structural design, for six FA academies built by Willmott Dixon Construction for Leicester City Council via the SCAPE framework in a £7 million scheme. The footballing centres across the city featured changing and showering facilities, as well as all-weather and grass pitches.
