Contractor due to finish Etihad stadium job later this year
Sisk is understood to be looking at Leeds United’s job to expand the capacity of its Elland Road ground once its work across the Pennines at Manchester City comes to an end.
That job – which involves taking capacity at City’s Etihad stadium up from 52,000 to just over 61,000 – is due to wrap up later this year having begun in autumn 2023.
Building understands Sisk has been running the rule over the Leeds job, which will see capacity at Elland Road to more than 50,000, for some time.
Work at Elland Road is expected to begin once the current season ends in late May, with the Premier League side’s last home match currently scheduled for 17 May.
Announcing the scheme had been given planning by the city council last mpnth, the club added: “Enabling works will commence immediately, with major construction activity scheduled to begin following the end of the current season.”
The plans by architect KSS will see Elland Road’s capacity increased from 38,000 to 53,000, through the expansion of the West and North Stands and alterations to the South Stand.
The current ground has been at the site since 1919 but is widely considered in need of an overhaul with the last major work being the building of the 14,500-seat East Stand which was started shortly after the club won the last of its three league titles in 1992.
Others working on the job include construction management consultant Rise and structures, civils and M&E engineer Buro Happold. Cost consultant is T&T, Quad is planning consultant while landscape architect is Re-form.
The club added the stadium will remain open and operational throughout the work.
Menawhile, Sisk, along with Kier, has been appointed to National Highways’ £968m Legacy Concrete Roads Reconstruction framework. It will run until 2032 with concrete roads accounting for around 5% of England’s strategic route network.
All pictures courtesy of LUFC/KSS
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