It expands the seated capacity of the Windsor Hall to circa 4,200 and the seated/standing capacity to 6,500, making the BIC a truly world class multipurpose venue suitable for all types of productions - from conference to arena sized stage shows. The CABLEnet installation pips Slingco's previous world record, held by the IFEMA venue in Madrid, by approximately 100sq.m!
Slingco also achieved the rare feat of finishing their element of this enormous project ahead of time in just seven weeks, and on budget. The CABLEnet consumed some 36 miles of steel cabling and 75 tonnes of new steel. It's an elegant and highly practical solution that enables BIC technical and maintenance staff to have safe high-level access across the entire roof of the venue's main Windsor Hall. The house lighting rig is stored in the roof void unobtrusively and can be used wherever needed across the space. No shadows are cast by the grid when lights are shone through it into the space below.
(Lee Baldock)
