JOTW: Head of Cricket and Venue Delivery at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019

We are delighted to be able to bring you details on this week’s featured ‘Job of the Week’ (JOTW), which is a vacancy for a Head of Cricket and Venue Delivery at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

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Connacht Rugby fans survey launched as part of Stadium Development Plan

Media gets first look at Vikings’ future HQ: TCO Performance Center

As the Minnesota Vikings’ NFL season nears its midpoint, the team’s future HQ is closing in on its fourth quarter. Members of the media got their first look at the Twin Cities Orthopedics (TCO) Performance Center site on Monday, during which they were able to walk through several spaces for the first time. The state-of-the-art, 277,000sqft facility is 70 percent complete and on schedule to open in March 2018.

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IAKS (International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities)

COUNTRIES/REGIONS WHERE ACTIVE/HAVE REACH:

Worldwide

COMPANY INTRODUCTION:

The International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities (IAKS) was founded in Cologne, Germany, in 1965. It is the only non-profit organisation concerned globally with the subject of sports and leisure facility development and has been awarded the status of a Recognized Organisation by the IOC.

The IAKS makes up a global network of first-hand expertise for design, construction and management of sports and leisure facilities. The IAKS regularly holds specialised conferences and educational seminars.

Since 1967, IAKS has been publishing “sb”, the world’s foremost specialist magazine for sports architecture and the construction, modernization and management of sports and leisure facilities.

CONTACT DETAILS:

Full company name:

International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities (IAKS)

Contact person:

Klaus Meinel, Secretary General

Address:

Eupener Str 70

50933 Cologne/Köln

Germany

Email:

info@iaks.org

Tel:

+49 221 168023-0

Web/URL:

www.iaks.org

IAKS: Servicing your requests in sports facilities

STATEMENT BY COMPANY PRINCIPAL/MISSION STATEMENT:

IAKS: facilitating an active world

 

IAKS is the leading global non-profit organisation for professionals from the sports, leisure and recreation facilities industry.

 

IAKS advocates excellence in the visioning, design and operation of fully inclusive and universally accessible indoor and outdoor facilities.

 

IAKS identifies and promotes new trends for transforming communities and urban areas into places of active living.

 

IAKS collaborates with international organisations to promote development that encourages and supports active and meaningful lifestyles.

 

IAKS hosts international networking forums for the exchange of planning, design and operational expertise.

 

IAKS recognises exceptional accomplishment in facility operation and design through an internationally recognised exemplary design awards programme.

Sports Venue Business (SVB) is proud to be an official media partner for IAKS and it’s biannual FSB event.

Rethinking legacy for host cities: The dawn of a new era

JOTW: 4x Assistant Event Managers required at Glasgow 2018 European Championships

We are delighted to be able to bring you details on this week’s featured ‘Job of the Week’ (JOTW), which is for 4x Assistant Event Managers at the Glasgow 2018 European Championships.

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Football welcomed to Perth Stadium

Earlier this week, the State Government announced that negotiations with football had been agreed and from Round 1 of the 2018 Australian Football League (AFL) Season, the West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers will play all home games at the new Perth Stadium, which will officially open its doors in January.

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U Arena celebrates official opening in spectacular style with Rolling Stones’ concert

The brand new 32,000-seat U Arena, home to Racing 92 rugby, and which is now one of the biggest indoor capacities in Europe, has officially opened its doors, marking its inauguration with a spectacular concert by world-renowned rockers, The Rolling Stones.

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The GAA to partner with PSE in Australia

Following the recent announcement by the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, that the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) will send two senior inter-county hurling teams to Australia to compete in an official fixture in November 2018, the GAA has announced it has entered into a joint venture with Australian-based event management specialists PSE Ltd to manage and promote the event.

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SPORTS VENUE DESIGN: Revolutionary concept turns thousands of years of arena design inside-out

In what is being billed as a “staggering breakthrough in arena design”, one of the world’s most innovative sports and entertainment architecture firms, ROSSETTI, have come up with a revolutionary concept ‘The Inverted Bowl by ROSSETTI’ that quite literally turns thousands of years of arena design convention inside-out.

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