£60m Sports arena completed for commonwealth games

Works have now been completed on the £60 million National Indoor Sports Arena at London Road in Glasgow for the 2016 Commonwealth Games. The development includes the construction of a 5,000 seater sports arena which is link by a walkway to the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. 

National Indoor Sports Arena (NISA) comprises: 

• A flexible 5,000 seater events arena capable of staging international and world sporting events in a wide range of sports.
• 200-metre athletics track (six lanes, hydraulic bends, infield used for indoor athletics field competition, or court sports training and casual use and high jump training).
• 137-metre warm-up sprint straight (including horizontal jumps pit and margins).
• Pole vault in training area outside athletics track.
• 5,000 spectator seats (fixed seats and telescopic seats, attached and detachable, capable of providing various seating configurations for sports events, 4,960 seats in Athletics mode).
• Three sports halls (includes community sports hall, linear design timber sprung floor, capable of hosting events for up to 1,200 spectators, utilising detachable telescopic seating units shared with arena).
• Ancillary facilities (Athletes Team changing rooms, referee changing rooms, equipment storage, first aid, events control space). This project achieved a BREEAM Rating of Very good.

Project ID: 9360511