Pictured above: Artist's impression of Edgbaston
Stadium
Solihull-based communications solutions provider Amillan has
been appointed to install the communications infrastructure at the
new Edgbaston Stadium for Warwickshire County Cricket Club.
The Amillan project team began work at the end of January and
the installation will be delivered in conjunction with Hulse
Electrical Mechanical Engineering Services.
In the advanced stages of construction with Galliford Try and
due for completion by July 2011, Edgbaston stadium's building work
is part of a venue-wide refurbishment programme based on a design
by Broadway Malyan. Accessed via a new main entrance, the venue
will seat 8250 spectators and include media and press rooms, a
members' area, catering services and a museum.
Phil Macdonald, Warwickshire County Cricket Club project
director, said: "A high performance ICT infrastructure is an
essential component in the operation of any world-class stadium and
central to the successful delivery of events. In addition to
internal systems, in today's media age, we need to provide the
world's press with easy access to internet and network
communications systems wherever and whenever required."
Macdonald continued: "The infrastructure being installed by
Amillan enables us to meet these demands and means that we can
compete on level terms with other venues around the world.
Amillan's ability to demonstrate its experience in the precise
co-ordination and management of large-scale projects whilst working
closely with all construction trades, in particular the M&E
contractor, was a key contributing factor in Amillan being selected
for Edgbaston stadium."
The technical solution developed by Amillan with Hulse
Electrical is a complex system that will support a number of
advanced services for WCCC over a blend of fibre-optics and copper.
It will deliver over 1,000 access points throughout the entire
venue including interior and exterior areas. The design
specification has overcome the challenges of integrating the
existing building with the new scheme in a single seamless
network.
Phil Beale, construction account director at Amillan, said:
"Amillan is very proud to have been selected to fulfil the contract
at Edgbaston stadium, a prestigious project in our home city. We
are well-experienced when it comes to understanding and supporting
the demands of operating a world-class sporting venue, thanks to
our long-standing management of the infrastructure at Wimbledon's
tennis complex.
"We recognise the complete dependence upon an efficient and
reliable IT infrastructure and as such, we are able to apply our
project experience to develop a robust and cost effective solution
for Edgbaston."