Eric Tweedale Stadium
The winner of last year’s Australian Timber Design Awards, the Eric Tweedale Stadium in Western Sydney, has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival’s award the Best Use of Certified Timber Prize. Source: Timberbiz
The stadium is a benchmark for sustainable construction with a key focus on an intricately detailed timber roof structure designed by dwp|Design Worldwide Partnership. Lead Designer and Project Architect of the stadium Ivana Simkovic of dwp|Design Worldwide Partnership said the stadium was a benchmark in terms of cost effectiveness, efficiency, design quality and sustainability.
The stadium is the first of its type in Australia to use glulam timber, representing an impressive achievement in timber engineering.
The mass timber canopy contains one of the largest discontinuous and double cantilevers, and as a stadium canopy, it is a first for Australia.
The flexibility of design allows for different community and sports activities throughout the building. The stadium includes a grandstand for 760 spectators, changing rooms, a commercial kitchen, an outdoor viewing deck, and function space for community events and well-being classes.
Sustainability was an important objective of the project. The use of PEFC-certified timber, supplied by Rubner Holzbau, was key to achieving this, and to demonstrating that a building of this scale could be low carbon, low waste, and highly energy efficient.
The World Architecture Festival and PEFC are awarding the Best Use of Certified Timber Prize for the fourth time. The festival will take place as a hybrid event from 30 November until 2 December in Lisbon, Portugal.
