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Lowlands Festival Success for Stageco Netherlands
Stageco's Netherlands office designed and built 11 stages for this year's Lowlands Festival in Holland.
Lowlands attracted 55,000 festival goers across the three day event to enjoy music from the likes of the Arctic Monkeys, The Prodigy, Kaiser Chiefs and Snoop Dogg, along with theatre shows, art installations and political debate.
Stageco has been involved with Lowlands Festival since it began in 1993, supplying the staging and scaffolding requirements across the entire festival site. This year Stageco built 11 stages at the festival under tented structures, as well as the scaffolding structures used across the site for decoration and signage.
In total, 4,676m² of Stageco flooring was used to build all the stages, with the two main stages measuring 28m wide x 15m deep. The two main stages were built with the Stageco Steel Tower system and the full ground-support needed to carry the large weight of the production lighting, PA and video screens. Stageco also used 256-ton ballast weights for the ground-support of all scaffolding structures and stages to ensure they were safely and securely weighed down.
As part of the Lowlands Festival project, Stageco also installs a bespoke temporary bridge structure that crosses a main road outside the site to connect the camping and car parking areas to the festival. The bridge is built and is put in place from May through to August each year, also being utilised for the same purpose at Opwekking festival earlier in the summer.
Stageco's design and engineering capabilities means the company creates stages and bespoke structures tailored to the individual requirements of each event. As well as the finished product, health and safety is also an ever-present priority, as Eddie Slotboom, Stageco Netherland's managing director explained: "This is a huge operation for Stageco Netherlands within a busy summer working on festivals, touring events and one-off concerts across the country. Lowlands is one of the biggest events we work on with a build of three-and-a-half weeks and up to 28 crew on site. Our focus is consistently on the safety of our event teams, with no two jobs the same we have to consider best working practices, whilst creating some very different structures alongside the stages we have become renowned for. I'm pleased to say the team we've had on site for Lowlands have been exemplary in their attitude and delivery of a complex festival infrastructure."
In picture: Stageco Netherlands MD Eddie Slotboom.
3rd September 2009
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