26/09/08 Consolidate provides support for Commonwealth Games national indoor sports arena

Ground engineering specialist Consolidate has won a major multi-million pound sub-contract to stabilise the old mine workings underlying the site for the construction of the new National Indoor Sports Arena and Velodrome that will be used as a venue for Cycling and Badminton for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Working with main contractor I & H Brown Ltd of Perth and consulting engineer Mason Evans Partnership, Consolidate will infill and stabilise two mine shafts and associated seams at the brown-field site in the Parkhead district of the city.

The contract will involve the drilling of over 5,000 bore holes, which will then be pressure injected with up to 75,000 tonnes of pulverised fuel ash (PFA)/cement grout to infill and secure the mine workings. It is anticipated that 215,000 metres of drilling will be required to complete the project.

Consolidate is already familiar with the area and the seams for treatment, having completed major ground consolidation projects on adjacent sites for social and private residential projects by Kier Homes at the old Belvedere Hospital and the West of Scotland Housing Association at Camlachie.

Beaton Sutherland, managing director of Consolidate, said: “Much is being made of the London Olympics but the 2014 Commonwealth Games will be a showcase event for Scotland and Glasgow, and as a Scottish company with local employees we are particularly delighted to have won this contract and truly be able to support the Games”

The National Indoor Sports Arena and Velodrome will help kick start the regeneration of the east end of Glasgow by providing a major stimulus for sports participation and well being. It will offer world-class facilities for international, national, regional and local events as well a community sports centre.