Work is continuing on a £70 million project to install a retractable roof for the new No.1 Court at Wimbledon.

SCX Special Projects, part of the SCX Group, has finished the first year of the three-year scheme at The All England Lawn Tennis Club.

The project is being carried out as part of a significant redevelopment to increase seating capacity and transform the grass court arena into a facility capable of play in all weather conditions.

The new roof has already used over 3,500 tonnes of steel.The concertina design uses a transparent Gore Tenara (a type of Gore-Tex fabric), which is stretched between 11 steel trusses, with two main sections that meet in the middle.

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

SCX Group 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."

Image credit: AELTC / KSS Design Group

Video credit: AELTC.

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