Aberdeen Sports Village
University of Aberdeen, Sportscotland
“A top-class sporting facility that is accessible to north Scotland’s local community and beyond.” - Sir Alex Fergusson.
Sport is about commitment and discipline, but it’s also about having fun. The building takes this thought as inspiration: It is rigorously planned but contains gestures and elements relating to sport and play. Accommodating a vast range of sports spaces, the building delivers creative responses to social, economic, and technical sustainability, inclusion, and opportunity; it is of local and national importance. Used as a training base for the 2012 Olympics, the award-winning Aberdeen Sports Village set the template for all such ventures in Scotland and boasts, amongst other firsts for Scotland; the only indoor straight 135-metre-long track.
Through competitive interview and design presentation, we were appointed as architect and lead consultant. The project operated under a Single Stage D&B contract with novation of the design team. The project includes 9 court multi-purpose games hall, indoor athletics training facility, full size indoor FIFA 3G 2-star football pitch, squash courts, Dojo, multipurpose games room, fitness suite, Aberdeen Institute of Sport offices, licensed cafe and changing facilities. New external FIFA 3G 2-star pitch, 2 no. seven a side pitches, changing facilities and 500 seat spectating stand.
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Contract Value
£24M
Area
17,650m2
Completion
2009
Client
University of Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen
Contract
Design & Build
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Contractor – Barr Construction
Quantity Surveyor – Thomson Bethune
Project Manager – Drivers Jonas
Structural Engineer – SKM Anthony Hunt
Services Engineer – KJ Tait / Wallace Whittle
Sports Consultant – KSS Design Group
Landscape Architect – Horner + Maclennan
Interior Design – Reiach and Hall Architects
Fire Engineer – ARUP
Acoustics - ARUP
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Awards
Aberdeen Civic Society Award 2009
Scottish Design Awards - Public Building Award 2010
Roses Design Awards - Health / Leisure Building Award 2010
Aberdeen Society of Architects Award 2011
RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Finalist 2010
RIBA Award 2010
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Sport is about commitment and discipline, but it’s also about having fun. The building takes this thought as inspiration: It is rigorously planned but contains gestures and elements relating to sport and play. Accommodating a vast range of sports spaces, the building delivers creative responses to social, economic, and technical sustainability, inclusion, and opportunity; it is of local and national importance. Used as a training base for the 2012 Olympics, the award-winning Aberdeen Sports Village set the template for all such ventures in Scotland and boasts, amongst other firsts for Scotland; the only indoor straight 135-metre-long track.
Through competitive interview and design presentation, we were appointed as architect and lead consultant. The project operated under a Single Stage D&B contract with novation of the design team. The project includes 9 court multi-purpose games hall, indoor athletics training facility, full size indoor FIFA 3G 2-star football pitch, squash courts, Dojo, multipurpose games room, fitness suite, Aberdeen Institute of Sport offices, licensed cafe and changing facilities. New external FIFA 3G 2-star pitch, 2 no. seven a side pitches, changing facilities and 500 seat spectating stand.
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