High Performance Sports & Leisure
From sports stadiums to bars and community centres, we are working with public and private partners to develop new leisure facilities - contributing to sustainable and healthier communities.
Today as people work longer hours and live increasingly hectic lives, it's no surprise that our free time is more important than ever before.
We appreciate that these developments are not purely stand alone ventures but will ultimately become a cornerstone within existing communities.
Our reputation for delivering projects gives our Clients the confidence to set their opening dates, book their performances and plan opening ceremonies, secure in the knowledge that the date is achievable.
In June 2009, Thomas Vale, along with our Partner Birmingham City Council's Urban Design, were awarded the Quality in Construction Award Project of the Year for the GMAC (Gymnastics and Martial Arts Centre), Birmingham.
| GMAC (Gynmnastics & Martial Arts Centre, Birmingham | Contract Value: £7million |
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The GMAC, as it has become known, will have an 1840 m2 gymnastic training hall with two floor areas to accommodate both traditional floor exercise and rhythmic gymnastics, a variety of fixed apparatus and tumble runs. It will also have spectator capacity for up to 460 people on retractable seating which when pulled back will create a further sports area for trampolining. However, the facility will also be used by elite performers, becoming a training centre for the Olympians of the future and will be a key facility for any country looking to use Birmingham as a base for the London 2012 Olympics. |
| MAC Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham | Contract Value: £10million |
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The scheme is being undertaken as part of the Birmingham Construction Partnership. Having been talked about for more than a decade, the Midlands Arts Centre revamp is finally underway. This £10M scheme is a joint venture with the mac, South Asian Arts development agency Sampad, Birmingham City Council and Thomas Vale. The mac’s facelift will include a new footbridge over the River Rea to replace the existing, three storey central link including an art gallery, refurbishment works to the theatre and cinema, new restaurant/café, additional space for performing arts and leisure, new 200msq performing arts studio and consolidated open plan offices. |
| Alexander Stadium, Birmingham | Contract Value: £2.5million |
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This state of the art Indoor Training Facility, is jointly funded by Sports England and Birmingham City Council and forms part of the English Institute of Sport Network and represents a first of a kind. The unique building comprises an eight-lane 110 metre sprint track, long jump, high jump and triple jump pits and practice areas. Other facilities include gyms, weights, physio room and offices supporting the English Institute of Sport. Sports Ministers Richard Caborn and Steve Cram MBE opened the facility, with Mark Lewis Francis setting a new 100 metres indoor record of 10.34 seconds in the very first event. The Alexander Stadium, at the time, had Europe's largest array of photovoltaic cells. |
| Shrewsbury Pool, Shrewsbury | Contract Value: £1.5million |
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The construction of a single storey extension to existing gymnasium, to provide a 6 lane, 25m swimming pool. Comprising of additional shower facilities, refurbishment of existing changing rooms and relocation of plant room. External works to develop and extend existing car park area. |