CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
THE NEW TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM GAINS RECOGNITION FOR ENGINEERING INNOVATION The venue won the Supreme Award for Structural Excellence and the Award for Long Span Structures, at IStructE’s Structural Awards 2019.
The New Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
INTRODUCTION The New Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is the realisation of an ambitious vision from Tottenham Hotspur Football Club (Spurs), to create the best football stadium in North London, the English Premier League (EPL) and Europe, whilst replacing the club’s former home ground at White Hart Lane. With spectator capacity increased from 36,240 to 62,062 (this has since been boosted to 62,303), the new venue officially opened on 3 April 2019. Tottenham can now stage football matches, NFL (National Football League) or American football league games, and concerts, along with private events such as conferences.
FOUR MAIN OBJECTIVES Starting in 2009, Buro Happold provided multidisciplinary services, from concept through to completion. Over 230 of the firm’s consultants and engineers worked directly 14
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The completed facade of the new stadium.
on this landmark undertaking, Populous was the architect for the project. All of Buro Happold’s work served four overarching requirements - keeping the club at Tottenham, overcoming
