GILBERTS (BLACKPOOL) LIMITED

Main contractor Balfour Beatty has spent two years transforming the iconic building to enable it to double up as home ground for the Premier League club, and the stage for world athletics championships. Work has included a new roof, accommodation for up to 54,000 spectators and 3,500 hospitality spectators. The hospitality and concessionaire areas feature new architectural double-glazed cladding and curtain walling facades, into which has been integrated almost £1/4million worth of ventilation louvres.

Working closely with the Architectural Glazer to engineer the façade ventilation solutions. A combination of standard and bespoke louvre designs has been utilised, to accommodate, and mirror, the form and lines of the stadium, masking the plant whilst ensuring adequate airflow with weather and noise attenuation.

Banks of over weather louvres have been integrated into the new cladding systems and curtain walling.