First phase of No.1 Court project completed by Sheffield's SCX

A SheFFIELD-based company has completed the first stage of work on the retractable roof for the new No.1 Court at Wimbledon.
Computer generated image of an aerial view of the roof on No.1 Court.   Credit: AELTC/KSS Design Group Ltd.Computer generated image of an aerial view of the roof on No.1 Court.   Credit: AELTC/KSS Design Group Ltd.
Computer generated image of an aerial view of the roof on No.1 Court. Credit: AELTC/KSS Design Group Ltd.

SCX has completed the first year of a three-year project to construct the roof at The All England Lawn Tennis Club.

SCX Special Projects, part of the SCX Group, which is based in Wincobank, Sheffield, was awarded the contract after successfully designing, manufacturing, and installing a similar retractable roof over Wimbledon’s Centre Court in 2009.

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The new folding roof over No.1 Court is part of a significant redevelopment that will increase seating capacity and transform the grass court arena into one capable of guaranteed play in all weather conditions.

Work is on schedule for completion in time for the 2019 tournament.

Managing director, Simon Eastwood, said: “We are very proud to have built the original retractable roof on Centre Court, and subsequently to have been chosen by the AELTC to work on No.1 Court.

“It’s testament to the successful engineering solutions and skills we used first time around that we were in a position to embark on the second project. SCX is now firmly one of the leading builders of kinetic architecture in the UK.”

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The new roof has already used more than 3,500 tonnes of steel, the equivalent of 295 buses or six Airbus aeroplanes.

SCX is a family-run business founded 45 years ago and is based in Roman Ridge Road, Wincobank. The group has continued to grow and bought premises in nearby Tyler Street in 2016 for use by one of its three companies, Street CraneXpress, which undertakes overhead crane maintenance and repairs.

It was recently granted the right to use the internationally famous mark of Made in Sheffield.

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