2 Sep 2008 07:00
Hightex Group plc ("Hightex")
Contract win: Façade to the Cape Town World Cup Stadium.
Complete membrane façade system and steel structure for the Green Point 2010 Football World Cup Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa.
2 September 2008
Hightex is pleased to announce that, with its consortium partner Mostostal Zabrze Holding SA, a major Polish steel fabricator and construction company, it has been awarded the contract to provide the complete PTFE/glass membrane façade and supporting steel structure for the Green Point Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa.
The façade totaling some 30,000 square metres provides one of the significant architectural features of the stadium situated in the Green Point area of Cape Town with Table Mountain as a backdrop. Completion is scheduled for 2009.
The façade completely wraps the whole perimeter of the stadium and is supported from some sixty vertical trusses with a series of horizontal fins within the individual membrane fields.
The total contract volume for Hightex is around EUR 5 million and the Directors of Hightex expect that the majority of this revenue will arise in the year ending 31 December 2009.
The project was designed by international architects gmp-Architekten of Berlin, Germany in co-operation with local architects Louis Karol Architects of Cape Town. Structural engineering was provided by Schlaich Bergermann & Partners, Stuttgart, Germany.
Charles DesForges, Chairman, stated that "Hightex Group is delighted to have been selected for such a prestigious project. It is again a tribute to the Hightex philosophy to provide innovation solutions to the client, as in this case where Hightex's alternative proposal was successful in being chosen. Hightex is now involved in two of the four stadia which will be used in the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, the other one being the stadium roof of the First National Bank ("FNB") Stadium in Johannesburg."
Enquiries:
Charles DesForges, Chairman, Hightex Group plc +44 (0) 207 603 1515
Jeff Keating, Landsbanki Securities +44 (0) 207 426 9000
About Hightex
Hightex has a long history of building large span roofs and facades using architectural membranes, exemplified by the Abuja Stadium for the All African Games in 2003 as well as the Berlin Stadium, Germany, used for the most recent FIFA World Cup Final in 2006. Hightex has been awarded the contract to provide the membrane roof as part of the upgrading of the First National Bank (FNB) Stadium in Johannesburg, which will be the stadium for several first and second round matches, one quarter-final and the final match at the FIFA 2010 Football World Cup.
In 2006 Hightex completed one of the largest membrane projects in the world, designing and constructing the energy-saving, sound-optimised, triple layer membrane roof for the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand.