Berry Industries

From a barren desolate piece of waste ground has risen a stunning futuristic collaboration of steel and glass that dominates the skyline of Leicester. In just under 60 weeks work was started and completed on Leicester City’s new home The Walkers Stadium.
The club moved just a few hundred meters from its historic home Filbert Street to the site of a former power station on the banks of the River Soar. From an out of date archaic 21,500 seater stadium City now fill there 32,500 seater bowl shaped stadium every match day. From eight function suited at Filbert Street offering limited facilities in one stand, the Walkers Stadium can now accommodate events including meetings, conferences and exhibitions for up to 550 people in one room.

Plans for a new commercial and residential estates and a renewal of the river and canal side walks were integral to the success of the whole scheme.
The stadium itself, designed by architects The Miller Partnership and constructed by Birse Stadia along with M&S Construction, was started in June 2001 and ready for the first friendly match against Athletico Bilbao in August 2002. The cost of the project was a total of £37m.

As with the contract at the Reebok Stadium, Berry Industries (then known as M&S Construction), provided a number of services as well as completing a range of complex packages on the site.

These services included the following:

• Concrete works
• Steel Fixing
• Ground works
• Drainage to whole site
• Landscape & Stone preparation
• Block Paving and Kerbs Package
• Labour Supply
• Site Logistics Solutions & Enablement Works Programme