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Plans for Luton Town Football Club’s iconic 25,000-seater football stadium targeting BREEAM Excellent have been approved!
The arena, dubbed Power Court, will provide a modern, sustainable home for the team in Luton town centre and act as a catalyst for urban regeneration. Plans include conference rooms, media facilities and food and beverage outlets, acting as the centrepiece of the wider regeneration of a 20-acre site adjacent to Luton Railway Station.
We are delighted to be supporting the club in their mission to achieve BREEAM Excellent, as well as providing services including MEP engineering, sustainability consultancy, lighting design and masterplanning.
Battersea-based AndArchitects originally secured approval in 2019 for a 23,000-seat stadium, which would have started smaller and been delivered in phases.
Now Architects Aecom have been brought in alongside Hertfordshire-based arena specialist SISA to revamp the plans, which now feature a 25,000-capacity stadium to be delivered in one chunk. The practice is working alongside London and Prague-based architects Klaska and sports consultants Trivandi.
Their brief included ensuring Power Court embodied the ‘atmosphere, intimacy and intensity’ of Luton Town’s current 12,000-seater, 119-year-old home in Kenilworth Road.
Luton Town Football Club chief executive Gary Sweet said when plans were submitted in September: "Once our lives changed 16 months ago with promotion at Wembley, concurrent to the gargantuan task of getting Kenilworth Road Premier League ready – which naturally dominated our workload for most of last year – we decided to reassemble a design team to take a fresh look at the whole Power Court project from foundations upwards.
"We hand-picked and structured an elite design team of architects, engineers and technicians, who have been working with us, crafting every floor and corner of our new stadium to a detailed stage such that it can now be submitted, publicly aired and presented as a well-prepared detailed design instruction for contractors."
“We are thrilled to have provided the double hat trick of sustainability, lighting, utilities, mechanical, electrical and public health design for this iconic project."
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