The Birmingham office of the UK’s leading design and construction consultancy, McBains Cooper, has helped Worcestershire County Cricket Club take its famous ground into a new innings.
McBains Cooper was brought in to provide cost management for the club’s new £2 million Graeme Hick Pavilion at its New Road ground.
The new pavilion is Phase One of the Club’s redevelopment plans for the County Ground, but instead of simply ending the innings of the original 1899 pavilion by levelling it to make way for the 21st century version, it was dismantled and stored for reconstruction as part of a future phase of development.
The new two-storey pavilion is named after the legendary Worcestershire and
England Cricketer, Graeme Hick, who recently retired after 25 seasons with the County.
It has a contemporary design and has been built above the flood plain to ensure continuity of business activities almost regardless of whatever nature bowls at it.
It houses new cricketing facilities including changing rooms, umpires’ room, cricket office, players’ dining room and physiotherapy/rehab area as well as a
new members’ lounge to be named after Tom Graveney, OBE and new seating in front of the pavilion.
A glass frontage show-cases the world-famous views over the ground to the cathedral.
McBains Cooper has regional headquarters in London (head office), Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Oxford, Windsor, Lima (Peru) and Mexico City, with associate offices in Belfast and Dublin. |
