Heritage
BMX Stadium, Manchester
The Manchester BMX Stadium was built alongside the Manchester Velodrome and provides a major contribution to the city’s successful National Cycling Centre. The striking BMX Stadium design incorporates an asymmetrically curved roof with an 80 metre clear span. The roof primary structure comprises an intricate series of 3.75 metre deep steel lattices. Tata Steel Celsius® 355 Hollow Section is used in the roof structure and in other new infrastructure at the site.
The design of the stadium, with its landmark roof, meets all the criteria for a world-class indoor BMX track. The suspended roof provides safe headroom for BMX riders and ensures that the layout of the track can be reconfigured if required. The immensely strong and stable steel roof trusses accommodate service walkways to a vast lighting system for television broadcasting.
The success of the stadium design is the outcome of close liaison between the design team, headed by Ellis Williams Architects (EWA).
The team included Doyle Consulting Engineers Limited. Structural engineer, Chris Doyle, says the project presented “exciting structural design challenges”
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