Swansea Arena

Our Bristol and Cardiff offices delivered the engineering for this £80m landmark leisure and mixed use scheme in the heart of Swansea. The striking venue is clad in gold-coloured panels and nearly 100,000 LED lights which are used for digital projections. 

Appointed to Rivington Land and Swansea Council, we worked as part of a multi-discipline team seeking to maximise the value of residential, retail, leisure and car parking development, all placed around an attractive, newly-created public realm.

Residential and parking developments to the north of the site are connected to the 3500 seat arena south of Oystermouth Road via a dramatic, curved pedestrian bridge. Multiple interchanges for vehicles and pedestrians required, including accesses for private vehicles, service deliveries, taxi drop-offs’, bus drop-offs, maintenance and emergency vehicle routes, all requiring detailed coordination with the structural design.

• Listed revetment walls and pedestrian tunnels to be retained at the site boundary.

• 45m span pedestrian bridge to be built over the existing dual carriageway with minimum disruption.

• Very heavy loads to the podium slab level, resulting from vehicle access and dense landscaping.