Famous faces use our structures

This August at Weston Park we supplied 4,750sqm of marquees and temporary structures for Staffordshire’s V Festival.

Our marquees and temporary structures were predominately used for first aid areas, medical centres, administration and information points however some also housed famous faces as we supplied back of stage dressing rooms, artist catering and bar areas and the NME signing tent.

Build started last Saturday 14^th August and took just 6 days to complete.
 

This is the festival’s first year and is organised by the founder of Red or Dead. We supplied structures for the 70’s and 80’s music areas as well as the beach BBQ which will be carpeted with a layer of sand! We also supplied smaller structures from our Ultimate Pagoda range for administration areas.
 

Ryder Cup Build Starts

This week GL events Owen Brown began building three temporary hospitality facilities at Celtic Manor Golf Course for the Ryder Cup this October. 

Three Absolute double deck pavilions totalling over 5,000sqm of structures will make up the Kidwelly and Caerphilly private hospitality suites and the Conwy Club, which is a shared restaurant facility above the 17^th green.

 Double deck kitchen and washroom facilities’ will be attached to all structures, as will entrance areas using Owen Brown’s new Ultimate Pagodas. And the Kidwelly suite, above the 16^th fairway and green, will feature an elegant Galeria roof.

 Darren Woodhouse, Events Director for Owen Brown comments “We are proud to be involved with the Ryder Cup. The Celtic Manor is a fantastic location and our three structures are set provide stunning hospitality facilities’ for guests at this world famous event”.
 

An event of the scale of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone requires event management of the utmost precision. Thanks to an array of temporary structures, this year’s event has been hosted with the usual smoothness and panache.

GL Events Owen Brown are the sole supplier of temporary structures at this event, a contract which this year saw them supplying a massive 14,705sqm. Structures are used for applications including high end hospitality suites such as the famous Copse Corner hospitality suite, general admission catering and bar areas, administrative facilities, changing areas, information points, media centres and even helipad terminals. The Silverstone helipad terminal becomes one of the busiest airports in the UK during the weekend of the British Grand Prix.

Owen Brown supplied structures from their whole product portfolio including their new Absolute and Ultimate ranges. Two huge 145m long Absolute Pavilions with a Eclipse curved roof profile were used for the Copse Corner hospitality suites; both were divided into individual hospitality chalets. Owen Brown also supplied the private club house, a 15m x 25 Absolute Pavilion with a 15m² canopy, for the British Racing Drivers Club which was used by ex Formula 1 drivers including Damon Hill and Nigel Mansell.

The Absolute Pavilions and Ultimate Pagodas were part of Owen Brown’s £4.5million 2009 investment in a new range of temporary structures aimed at the outdoor events industry. The structures were designed with events like Silverstone in mind. The Absolute is flexible to a host of different event applications it comes in a single, double or triple decker, with optional balconies or terraces, a choice of three roof profiles and a host of interior décor options including segmenting the structure into individual hospitality suites. The Ultimate was designed to be a practical unit for such things as administration areas, it can stand alone or
be linked together to form larger retail units or linked to another structure from the Owen Brown range to form an entrance way or break out room.

Ben Keast, project manager for Owen Brown, commented, “The British Grand Prix event takes such a high volume of structures and is one of our largest supply contracts that it is never without some challenges. The main challenge we face each year is fitting the build of the structures around other events on Silverstone’s busy events calendar. We do this by meticulously planning the build schedule, crew numbers and logistics to ensure equipment arrives on time and in the right order. We have project managers that have worked on the Silverstone site for the past 25 years; this knowledge, coupled with our experienced build team, ensures a smooth build project. In addition to this, the structures we supplied this year needed to reflect the facelift Silverstone has undergone for 2010. I believe our new Absolute Pavilions with Eclipse curved roofs and Ultimate Pagodas helped to achieved this new look”.

The Silverstone track has suffered criticism over recent years and it has been well documented that it came close to losing its place on the Formula One calendar. Silverstone Race Circuit sought investment and is now working on a new pit and paddock complex set to be complete in 2011. The paddock complex will include new garages, a media centre, a race control building, new hospitality and VIP spectator zones and a primary paddock. This will all help to bring Silverstone into the 21st Century.

Alex Robertson, managing director of the leading temporary structure supplier, commented, “Our 60 year relationship with the British Grand Prix is still going strong. We have men on site at Silverstone for several months before the event, allowing us to be flexible with the build schedule and adapt quickly to any changes in the brief. We work closely with the interior decorators chosen by Silverstone to ensure a high end finish is given to all level of structures”.

GL events Owen Brown has provided temporary structures to the British Grand Prix since its conception in 1950 and at the Silverstone Circuit for over 25 years. Richard Phillips, managing director of Silverstone Circuits Ltd 2010, thanked the events team for another invaluable contribution to sporting showpiece: “Considering we had less than six full months to get up and running, I think everything involved performed exceptionally well and the racing weekend’s tremendous success is entirely down to an outstanding team effort”.