Project Title: Lancashire County Cricket Club
Client: Lancashire County Cricket Club
Project Value: £12million
Hulley contact: David Livingston
Hulley and Kirkwood has been appointed to design the mechanical and electrical engineering on a proposed new stand, as well as improving drainage systems and helping to install a new scoreboard and floodlights. We are also designing and installing a high-tech rainwater system so that up to a third of the rain which falls on the pitch during the summer can be recycled and sprayed back onto the playing area through sprinklers.
The rainwater harvesting system is being installed by Lancashire CCC as one of the first stages of the £12million redevelopment of the club’s historic Old Trafford ground, which the club has occupied since 1865. As well as improved drainage, a new scoreboard and floodlights, the club also plans to replace two of its ageing suites with a new stand comprising a 7.5 metre high, 1,000-seater function room which will double as hospitality or exhibition space.
As with the pitch, the new building will re-use rain which falls on its roof as grey water to supply the toilet facilities and will incorporate some of the most cutting edge energy-saving measures. The new stand will be ready by April 2010. Further phases of development, possibly totalling up to £70 million of work, could include a complete redevelopment of all areas of the ground and a new hotel.The club hopes that the improvements to the playing area and the new spectator facilities will help boost its bid to regain England Test Matches after it lost out on the chance to host an Ashes test in 2009.
