Sports & Leisure

The Aviva Stadium is a 50,000 seat arena and is Ireland’s first UEFA Elite Stadium. The €285m stadium is located at Lansdowne Road, Ballsbridge an affluent residential suburb 2 km south of Dublin city centre. All of John Sisk & Son's building experience was brought to bear on this project to deal with the many complex facets which it presented, including management of the very complex steel roof structure through to managing neighbourhood issues and numerous environmental concerns due to adjacent parks and waterways.

• The project achieved 1.5 million Accident Free Hours.

• 2010 Irish Concrete Society Awards - Building Category and Overall Winner.

• 2011 British Construction Industry Award (BCIA) - Best International Project.

• This award recognises excellence in UK and International Building & Engineering Projects.

The location, which includes sports and leisure facilities features a 1,500-seat auditorium and separate exhibition hall which, at 4,000m2, provides the largest pillar-free ballroom in Europe, capable of hosting 2,400 people.

The ICC Wales is located within the busy environment of the internationally-acclaimed Celtic Manor Resort Hotel in Newport, South Wales. This required us to utilise all our skills in minimising disruption to the live environment.

Constructed as an iconic location for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Royal Artillery Barracks shooting venues were delivered by Sisk with sustainability and the innovative use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) at the heart of our strategy.

The three orange, pink and blue dotted buildings - completed in January of that year - were skinned in a white, double-curved membrane façade, studded with vibrantly coloured openings for natural ventilation and access, utilising 18,000m² of fully-recyclable PVC membrane that is free of phthalates; binding agents that are thought to be harmful to health. Inside, they housed 3,800 seats divided between partially enclosed ranges and saw 200,000 visitors and event-goers walk through the doors over the course of the games.

Located close to Dublin city centre, Croke Park was redeveloped into a world class 82,000 seat stadium and bears testimony to a sustained effort by the client, the design team and John Sisk & Son as the main contractor.

Constructed around and within a live arena, the Sisk management team provided a new facility to the highest international standards, while seamlessly accommodating the client’s seasonal cycles.

Developed in four main phases for €165m, the stadium was returned to the client for selected weekends in each sporting year to suit the GAA’s games programmes, and each time with increased seating capacity.

The complex now offers corporate hospitality, an interactive museum, lecture and conference facilities and hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games.

The redeveloped Páirc Uí Chaoimh is now an impressive, modern facility which has already made a very positive impact, providing a wonderful experience for both players and spectators alike, and whose high-class facilities for conferences and exhibitions have attracted new visitors and businesses to the area.