{"id":1031,"date":"2013-08-05T16:25:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T16:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/zaun\/old-trafford-ashes-benefits-from-olympic-fencing\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T16:46:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T16:46:30","slug":"fencing-for-ashes-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaun.co.uk\/fencing-for-ashes-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Trafford Ashes benefits from Olympic fencing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old Trafford Ashes venue managers turned to temporary technology developed for the London 2012 Olympics to increase the third Investec Ashes Test that concluded with England retaining The Ashes.<\/p>\n

Emirates Old Trafford, home of Lancashire County Cricket Club (LCCC), has undergone \u00a340m redevelopments designed to attract more international cricket and major music and entertainment events. As a result, LCCC approached event overlay specialist Zaun to provide a high-security temporary perimeter protection system for areas of the ground.<\/p>\n

Specifiers and safety officials wanted to create an extra three metres of space around the ground’s perimeter to remove ‘pinch points’ and enable better spectator<\/a> flow within the venue, without affecting pedestrian and traffic flow around the stadium, so needed fencing with a small footprint.<\/p>\n

LCCC used Zaun’s MultiFence temporary fencing<\/a> solution to effectively increase the perimeter while ensuring the aesthetic appeal of the ground was not altered, as the Multi-Fence system was branded with the event and advertising messages.<\/p>\n

LCCC Event & Safety Manager Richard Mulcaster said: \u201cZaun has designed a really effective event overlay<\/a> solution. They coped with all of the install constraints of a busy season of county and international cricket<\/a> to put in an attractive system in double-quick time.\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Zaun installed<\/a> 60 metres 3 metres high fencing system over two days after a midweek Friends Life t20 win over Roses rivals Yorkshire Vikings at the Emirates Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

Zaun combined two of its celebrated temporary high-security systems developed<\/a> specifically for last year’s Olympics and Paralympics Games \u2013 the Rapid Deployable System (RDS) and Multi-Fence \u2013 into the Manchester installation.<\/p>\n

Both systems have won awards this year for protecting<\/a> events and crowded places. In 2012 they were effectively deployed at several key sporting and high-security events<\/a> in the UK. Multi-Fence also protected against hostile vehicle<\/a> attacks and was used at several London 2012 Olympic venues.<\/p>\n

RDS has saved up to 90% of police time<\/a> during recent installations by uniquely providing hostile vehicle mitigation (HVM) up to 30mph (48kph) in a rapidly-deployed temporary fencing solution with no below-ground foundations \u2013 a solution generally offered only by permanent fixed installations.<\/p>\n

Zaun<\/a> co-founder and director Alastair Henman\u00a0said: \u201cIt\u2019s been an honour and a privilege to be involved with LCCC to deliver such an effective solution for this high-profile sporting installation and at such an iconic venue.\u201c<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"Old Trafford is England<\/a>‘s second oldest Test venue and one of the most renowned arenas in world cricket. It hosted the first-ever Ashes Test held in England in July 1884 and hosted two Cricket World Cup<\/a> semi-finals.<\/p>\n

In 1956, England bowler Jim Laker grabbed the first-ever 10-wicket haul in a single inning, recording figures of 19 for 90 \u2013 a feat that has never been matched in Test or first-class cricket to this day.<\/p>\n

Work began on the redevelopment in summer 2011 to preserve the ground’s rich history of Test cricket and increase its capacity as a music venue from 50,000 to 65,000.<\/p>\n

First came the installation<\/a> of permanent floodlights, a new video screen and a new ‘Players and Media’ centre, mimicking the design of The Point, with a two-tiered cantilever stand on either side. Contractors have replaced The Pavilion’s<\/a> sloped roof with two modern glass storeys, finished in April 2013.<\/p>\n

They demolished the media centre and corporate boxes on the western side of the ground to leave a space used for temporary seating or a stage when required when the Zaun overlay security<\/a> is likely to be applied once more.<\/p>\n

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