SportPark Pavilion 4
- Status
- Complete April 2023
- Client
- Loughborough University
- Value
- £9m
- Procurement Method
- Design and Build
- Services
- Lead Designer and Architect from Conception to Completion
- Scale
- 2000m²
Awards
- Winner - East Midlands Brick Awards, Commercial Development of the Year 2023
- Winner - Green Apple Environment Awards 2023, Environmental Best Practice, Silver Award for Carbon Reduction, Building & Construction in Sustainable Development 2023
- Finalist - East Midlands Property Dinner Awards, Sustainability 2023
- Finalist - Leicester ProCon Awards 2023
- Finalist - CEF (Construction Employer’s Federation) Awards (in NI), GB & RoI General Construction Project of the Year Award above £2.5m 2023
SportPark was launched by Loughborough University with support from government, Sport England, Charnwood Borough Council and Leicestershire County Council. It is the current home for the national governing bodies of many sports, offering an innovative office environment enabling the tenants to share information and produce innovative approaches to best practice.
- Status
- Complete April 2023
- Client
- Loughborough University
- Value
- £9m
- Procurement Method
- Design and Build
- Services
- Lead Designer and Architect from Conception to Completion
- Scale
- 2000m²
Awards
- Winner - East Midlands Brick Awards, Commercial Development of the Year 2023
- Winner - Green Apple Environment Awards 2023, Environmental Best Practice, Silver Award for Carbon Reduction, Building & Construction in Sustainable Development 2023
- Finalist - East Midlands Property Dinner Awards, Sustainability 2023
- Finalist - Leicester ProCon Awards 2023
- Finalist - CEF (Construction Employer’s Federation) Awards (in NI), GB & RoI General Construction Project of the Year Award above £2.5m 2023
DMA has a strong connection with Loughborough University, having worked on a Masterplan for Loughborough University which included the design and construction of Phase 1 of SportPark, a series of three connected pavilions with up to five storeys linked through glazed circulation spaces, all sited within a Woodland setting.
DMA were awarded the design and build for the 4th pavilion in 2020 and the building was handed over in April 2023. As well as achieving Passivhaus and BREEAM accreditation, Pavilion 4 design respects the existing three pavilions and continues the ethos of encouraging collaboration and innovation central to the Loughborough University Science & Enterprise Park.
At the design stage, DMA had a clear set of requirements from Loughborough University. They are as follows:
- Create a fourth pavilion adding an extra 2000 sq metre extension to the existing SportPark facility. As the extension is commercial space, 1500 m2 net would be lettable, after circulation and meeting rooms.
- Use the same architectural language/ aesthetic to harmonise with the existing 3 pavilions; and
- From the start, Loughborough University had the ambition for SportPark 4 to achieve Passivhaus accreditation, setting the standard for future buildings to meet NetZero and low energy consumption while delivering comfortable office space