Arena Seating worked closely with fellow suppliers StageCo and Kayam through the design process and rain-flooded installation, to interface its equipment to create a safe infrastructure for the televised event. The company had been given only two weeks to translate Italian seating regulations and design a layout to conform, before being given the go ahead to ship the 10 truck loads of equipment and nine crew to Rome.
A further challenge installing the seating derived from the fact that the temporary venue was located on a chariot style horse-racing venue so the nine UK Arena crew managed a local crew of 20 as horses trained around them!
Arena Seating Dave Withey Commented: "After successfully completing a difficult and complicated installation for the 2003 Awards in Edinburgh, we were delighted to be given the opportunity of carrying on our relationship with such a high profile event in the sunnier climes of Rome. Our site crew, as you can imagine, were even more delighted!
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
