UCE Academy 3G & Tarmac MUGA
Blakedown Sport & Play have completed extensive sport facility work at the Brand new UCE Academy in Wirral.
A new full size 3G for football & 5-a-side was constructed onto a dynamic base using and Edel Superblade Duo 60mm monofilament carpet.
4m High weldmesh fencing and 6 floodlight columns completed the ATP.
A four court tarmac Multi-Use Games Area for tennis & Netball was built plus a polymeric long jump straight.
Numerous items of sporting apparatus were also supplied from weighted football & 5-a-side goals to pitch dividing nets & netball posts.
Once completed the pitch was used to break a Guinness World record for the largest man made poppy, formed with nearly 2000 students and teachers from the Academy.
Client: Kier Northern
Contract Duration: 12 Weeks
Contract Value: £390’000
Ryelands Estate, Lancaster Variety of landscaping and sports facilities
The construction of a wide variety of sports facilities and landscaping at Ryelands Estate.
Works included:
- Installation of a 30m x 18m porous macadam multi-use games area for five-a-side football and basketball, with a 3m-high perimeter weldmesh fence and 1.2m rebound boards.
- A skatepark, including two 9m-diameter concrete bowls with grind rails.
- A junior play area with a pre-formed, safety-tiled surface with play equipment such as swings, a spring ride, spring seesaw, whirl and fun trial.
- A vast amount of landscaping and planting of shrubs plus tarmac footpaths,. The whole site was enclosed with 1.2m bowtop perimeter fencing.
Client: Lancaster City Council, Town Hall, Lancaster LA1 1PJ
Architect: Capita Symonds, 1 Mannin Way, Lancaster LA1 3SU
Contract value: £255,000
Contract duration: 13 weeks