HOK Sport designed the seven-tier stand, which boasts 1,000 television screens, seven restaraunts, 24 escalators and 265 hospitality boxes. The queen toasted the opening of the new grandstand at Ascot Racecourse on the 20th June 2006, celebrating the race against time to complete the £200m captial project in under 20 months. More than the size of its predecessor, the new

50,000 plus seat grandstand is a quarter mile in length and eight storey high. Directly behind the stand is a new parade ring and showpiece amphitheatre, has terraced seating for 8000 people. Ascot is a real team success for Laing O'Rourke. It is a impressive display of engineering prefabrication and assembley, with tight tolerances and complex geometry delivered in a world class manner. More than 300,000 people will visit the new grandstand during the Ascot week, making this Europe's most popular race meeting.

Northern Doors were awarded the contract to supply and install a total of 20 Safeguard 60 electrically operated shutters to the refreshment and betting kiosks at lawn level. 5 Norfydor electrically operated fire resitant roller shutters linked to the building management system. 5 Serveryguard 50 fire resitant roller shutters we fitted to the internal storage rooms, which included battery back up & various safety features. Finally 1 stainless steel Visionguard 45 parrell mesh grille to the good in area at the rear of the grandstand.