- Client: Sir Robert McAlpine
steve.chan@srmcalpine.co.uk - Main Contractor: McNicholas Plc
mathew.wincott@skanska.co.uk - Architect: HOK
- Engineer: WSP
- Maylim Ltd: External Works, Ground Works, Concrete retaining walls, Sub structure for paving/cladding, highways works to main entrance, 106 works to Holloway Road/Hornsey Road, surface/underground drainage, street furniture
- Partners : Paving – Miller Druck, Soft Landscaping – Willerby’s, Electrical – S&B Electrical, Surfacing – Spade Oak.
- Value: £1.1m
- This multi-faceted Emirates Stadium project for Arsenal Football Club grew into a complex programme of interrelated civils, highways and hard landscaping projects.
- Working on the Emirates Stadium proved to be highly challenging for Maylim Ltd. Time pressures were constant and the ability to start on new elements of the programme was always determined by progress elsewhere on the site.
- Maylim Ltd’s work, in co-ordination with Sir Robert McAlpine & McNicholas Plc, included the installation of five flights of bespoke Chinese granite stairs (by Miller Druck), waterproofing, tarmacing and drainage for two new access bridges, carrying out major diversions of Network Rail’s drainage systems into a new Thames Water sewer at the top of the site, complete realignment of the main Hornsey Road with new islands and installation of a large roundabout without having to close the road. We also created a smart VIP plaza in front of the main stadium entrance and Arsenal superstore, and finished the project off with the positioning of two imposing cannons to represent the Gunners.
- In addition to this we completed over 45,000sqm of civils works for the surfacing to the underground car parks and all associated street furniture around the VIPs and coach set down car parks. Further to this, it also saw the package grow to include the completion of the full hard and soft landscaping works to the social housing (northern triangle) area within the Emirates. The package was completed with the construction of the Highways widening 106 works to the Holloway Road & Hornsey Road Junction.
- The 106 works included working around existing services along the heavily congested footways whilst co-ordinating the diversion of these services which included HV electricity supplies running the full length of the western footway.
