Architects Workshop Limited (AWL) is a Dublin-based architectural practice who together with their clients, bring thoughtful design, understanding and discipline to every unique project. Through nearly 25 years of practice, AWL have grown to become an office with a progressive outlook towards design and the development process, both in Ireland and internationally.

AWL is on the technical advisor list for The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) thanks to their expertise in the delivery of sports projects, including sports facility master planning. These include projects in Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy & North America.

Olan and Daniel have worked closely for over a decade, so a strategic partnership between their businesses is the next logical development of the ongoing relationship to deliver first-class solutions.

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“Daniel has enthusiastically delivered with drive and determination on the projects we have worked on and his research and client brief development are first class.
We look forward developing our continued association with Daniel and the Stad Astra team over the coming years.”  - Olan Crowley, Design Manager

SPS Technology offers the most quickly installed and architecturally versatile heavy-duty stadium decking system on the market today, which can be used to build new venues or renovate historic, ageing or existing arenas without extensive demolition. Their modular structural composite, SPS, is in use at some of the most high-profile venues in the world. These include Anfield, Ascot Racecourse, Climate Pledge Arena and Flushing Meadows' USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Facility owners and designers can generate additional revenues by creating a new 'over bowl' to an existing stadium, or solve issues with executive boxes and platforms. Unlike aluminium, it sounds and feels like walking on concrete, with top ranking water-tightness.

SPS Technology & Stad Astra are working closely together to provide expert outcomes for the SPS solution to be implemented at both small-scale stadia and larger venues, as highlighted by the successful portfolio to date, including Resorts World Arena in Birmingham, England.

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Cassidy Sepnieski has quickly become one of the most in demand football kit designers around, thanks to her ingenious and daring designs causing a stir within the kit community globally. At just one glance, it doesn't take much to recognise how her work pushes beyond traditional boundaries and parameters.

This led to bespoke work specially created for EA Sports' FIFA 22 alongside Classic Football Shirts, as well as her innovative creativity working for Forward Madison FC, where she oversaw the club going from relatively unknown to a global phenomenon amongst kit collectors. Additionally, they became the first American team to have a fully reversible on-field top and the first to have a QR code built into the shirt. Recently, she partnered with Minnesota Aurora FC; an up-and-coming, community-owned women's club, to bring their inaugural season kits to life.

Not just confined to kits, Cassidy has overseen entire rebrands and ideologies for professional sports clubs in the United States, and will now be encompassing all this expertise alongside Stad Astra's branding methods to help deliver avant-garde results for our clients across the sporting world.

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"I am greatly excited by the prospect of collaborating with Daniel and Stad Astra on projects that combine all of my passions and strengths: branding, marketing, design, and events. I believe there is no better vehicle for change, impact, and connectedness than through sport. The ability to work with communities to amplify their voices to the broader world is a privilege; one that I feel greatly honoured to be entrusted with when I work with teams. I am enthused to see what lies ahead!" - Cassidy Sepnieski

DYNAMIK are Official Sports Flooring partners to many of the leading National Governing Bodies (NGBs) including Basketball England, Wales Basketball, England Netball, England Handball, British Wheelchair Basketball and the professional side of British Basketball, the BBL. Stad Astra has struck up a strategic partnership with DYNAMIK to help ensure the product is available to clientele across a spectrum of sectors, including Esports opportunities.

DYNAMIK also offer a range of specialist sports flooring products from their Worldwide supply partners such as MONDO, known as the best athletics track surface as seen in the past 13 Olympic Games.

The ASB GlassFloor by DYNAMIK is another supply partnership and is fast becoming the future of Arena and high-performance sports flooring. The ASB GlassFloor has just been awarded FIBA 1 status, which is the first non-timber surface to achieve this high-performance accreditation and has opened the gate for other sports to utilise the product. The ASB GlassFloor allows facilities to turn on individual line markings therefore making the floor acceptable for top flight events and negates the need to hire in and install, temporary portable courts, saving time and money for event organises.

The ASB GlassFloor also allows arenas or facilities to turn off all line marking lights and create a clean and clear flooring space ideal for exhibitions or community events as the ASB GlassFloor is high durable and indentation resistant and ready for use – sporting or non-sporting, at a push of a button.

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“DYNAMIK are pleased to confirm a collaboration partnership with Stad Astra for the supply and installation of indoor sports and gym flooring. DYNAMIK are UK leaders in the manufacture, supply and installation of sprung timber and synthetic sports flooring and have a large range of acoustic rubber gym flooring ideal for arena, hotels and commercial facilities where sound isolation and impact performance are a high priority.” - Craig Jack, Managing Director .

Our designated Habitat Partner, Green&Blue, play an important part in ensuring wildlife and ecosystems are at the forefront of any construction project thanks to their wide array of solutions for bees, birds and bats. As a certified B Corporation, their ideologies and methods ensure sustainability is central to everything they do, which lends itself to Stad Astra's green strategies within the stadia & venue sector.

We will be incorporating a multitude of Green&Blue's products into each project we're involved in, and encourage more businesses to explore how they can become a little bit greener to help protect our planet for future generations.

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"We're delighted to be working with Stad Astra to create more spaces for nature. Our mission is to make homes havens for wildlife, but by working with Stad Astra, we are pleased to go even further and make stadiums and arenas havens for wildlife too, because we need to see habitat on such a major scale that all projects should be considering how we can co-exist with nature."  - Faye Treffry, Director & Head of Growth

One Tree Planted is a 501(c)(3) non-profit on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees. Their projects span the globe and are done in partnership with local communities and knowledgeable experts to create an impact for nature, people, and wildlife. Reforestation helps to rebuild forest after fires and floods, provide jobs for social impact, and restore biodiversity. Many projects have overlapping objectives, creating a combination of benefits that contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Stad Astra & One Tree Planted have partnered together to demonstrate their core beliefs of highlighting sustainability around the planet. Bringing consciously eco-friendly thinking to our clients will help our continued efforts to fight back against the climate disaster and exhibit to everyone that planting trees is a positive step in the right direction.

Stad Astra will plant a minimum of 100 trees per project, whilst actively encouraging our clients to do the same.

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