Venue'sWest facilities provide significant benefits to sporting groups and community members.
They have been designed to cater for varying levels of sport, from community level through to high performance. The stadiums are designed to enhance the amenity of the local area. They will provide world-class sporting facilities for use by the WA community.
In a state where sport and recreation is a major lifestyle choice, the Venue'sWest facilities ensure that the community is provided with high quality facilities which will serve them well into the future.
Challenge Stadium
In 1986 VenueWest's first venue, Perth Superdrome, was built with its primary focus being a commitment to help develop elite athletes in their pursuit of excellence. Now as Challenge Stadium, the venue is currently home to a myriad of activities - including elite sport, concerts, childcare, functions, plus health and fitness facilities.
The Challenge Stadium is managed by VenuesWest.
Athletics Stadium
Elite and junior athletes, local sporting groups, schools and spectators are benefitting from the new state-of-the-art athletics stadium officially opened in May 2009.
The new stadium is Western Australia’s competition venue for elite athletes at major meets and home to the wider athletics community.
The stadium features:
- A 2000 seat grandstand with capacity for a further 8,000 on grass banking.
- Duplicated event sites on the front and back straights (pole vault, long jump, triple jump, javelin, discus, shot put).
- Stadium and grandstand orientation to take advantage of the prevailing wind conditions.
- The Mondo track surface used at the Beijing Olympics and twelve-lane front and back straights with nine lanes on the bends.
- The incorporation of energy-efficient stadium lighting to allow twilight and evening training and events.
- A grassed internal arena that has been designed to accommodate soccer.
- A suite of energy and water saving devices and equipment such as waterless urinals, solar panels on the roof, flow controllers and timers on all taps.
- Recycled water from the Subiaco waste water treatment plant will be used for irrigation purposes with bore water used for flushing and back-up purposes as well as a huge supply of rainwater, harvested from the roof of the grandstand.
The WA Athletics Stadium is managed by VenuesWest.
Basketball stadium
VenuesWest opened the new WA Basketball Centre in January 2010. The state of the art facility will bring a new era of basketball to WA.
The WA Basketball Centre will be the finest training facility in Australia.
The training hall is 5000 square metres. The total venue cost is around $40 million.
VenuesWest intends to make the WA Basketball Centre accessible to as many groups as possible and we are keen for anyone who wants to use the facility in the future to contact us.
Features
- Two show courts
- Six training courts
- 11m high ceilings
- Six change areas and 48 toilets
- Seating for 2000 in show court area
- Seating for 600 on training courts
- Full accessibility for wheelchair sports
- Floors in training space marked for Netball, Badminton, senior and junior basketball, volleyball,
- Fuly equipped cafe
- First floor VIP meeting room for up to 250 people
- Five hireable rooms on the ground floor for meetings
- Spectator viewing areas from first floor foyer
Rugby facility
The rugby facility will be located in the North West precinct of AK Reserve.
Initial design sketches have been developed for the facility which proposes a two-storey facility accommodating administration, sports medicine and high performance training.
University information
CRICOS Code: 00126G
