Lansdowne Road stadium scheme pushes forward

The £192m redevelopment of Dublin's Lansdowne Road stadium for the Irish rugby team has moved closer to realisation with the appointments of a project management and design teams.
Project Management, one of Ireland's biggest specialist consultancy and project management firms, has scooped the project management role in a consortium with Capita Symonds, Franklin & Andrews, KMCS and Berger Devine Yaeger.
HOK Sports is heading up the design team, which also features Scott Tallon Walker, Buro Happold and M-E Engineers.
The Lansdowne Road Development Company will now launch a planning application in December and contractors will be invited to express interest in the construction deal via an advertisement to be posted in the OJEU.
Given a fair wind, work on site will start towards the end of 2006.