>On May 2011, Prince Edward as High Royal Highness the Duke of Kent was officially launched the brand new building that consists of the extra stage of a multi-million pound investment property in Silverstone British Grand Prix track and its amenities. This world class facility building called The Silverstone Wing which has an outstanding facility for teams, officials and fans or spectators as well. Along with three large halls, a convention facility, enterprise and business center together with a hundred seat auditorium, this Silverstone Wing has been specifically supposed to accommodate conferences, product launches and experiential gatherings, and will also be the most significant sheltered exhibition place amongst London and Birmingham.
Why he called it as The Wing? It was symbolic of motor sport, and also links with Silverstone history, accordingly illustrating both the circuit prosperous history along with its thrilling future potential.
The Managing Director of Silverstone Circuit Limited, Richards Philips, talks about this “wing” name. He explains that it was a suitable name (Wing) by the key concepts which are directly through the flight and velocity. It integrated into the design summary as well as streamlined kind of the ultra-modern building that invokes the sense of speed, dynamic movement and the elegance of a bird wing in complete flight
This Silverstone Wing was an impressive remodeling from the old airfield in Northamptonshire, which first organized the British Grand Prix in 1948.
Silverstone Wing, In-Depth Information
Actually, this brand new modern building was started about a year ahead from the first planned agenda. And you can imagine how this building become a high class architecture by its cost expense, it slightly below 28 million pound. The construction project plan, from beginning to end was completely done in 54 weeks. It started on April 2010 and finished on May 2011 ago. The construction period project was reached about 395,000 total man hours. Now, it was over 200 personnel been working on the site.
It calculates about 390 meters in total length of this Silverstone Wing. The height levels of the “blade shaped” measures thirty meters with the roof area ranges in 9,700 square meters. There are about 1,200 tons of steel which assembled in and around the building.
This is the estimated size on the floor ground, it was 41 garages available that covers on 6,200 square meters distances, 2,780 square meters for media center, for spectator and any hospitality zones it covers about 8,200 meters, and 950 square meters for covering the race control.
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You will find twenty four huge screens which located around circuit silverstone, showing Formula 1 motion through the entire weekend. For any die-hard fans on F1 Silverstone who choose to camp on it, Silverstone offers about 11,500 camping site on the inside which could accommodate about more over 28,000 fans.
A highly modern traffic management system was applied for the British Grand Prix, it transforming the A43 dual carriageaway straight into six lanes one way system. Concerning about the access, Silverstone in now just about the easiest circuits in the world to get the turn-over inside and out traffic way.
The quantity of TV cable which organized all-around Silverstone towards the British Grand Prix would extend from Dover to Calais and back.