Challenge

A resin bound Seagull crest welcomes B&H Albion football fans to the American Express community stadium in Brighton. 

Paul Barber, Chief Executive of Brighton & Hove Albion FC noticed a crest (albeit on a much smaller scale) at Manchester City and liked the idea and decided the club should have their own, but bigger and bolder to create a real sense of arrival at the Amex.

Laura Collins, Projects Manager at the Club's Amex stadium, was tasked with commissioning a company to produce a giant Seagulls crest on the stadium concourse.

Clearstone was chosen for the project as they are a specialist resin bound surfacing company with expertise in producing custom paved logos. And they admitted they are themselves Albion fans!

Solution

The crest was created by Clearstone in a Vectorworks CAD program, from which intricate stencil formers were laser cut for the seagull, its beak and the lettering, which were then carefully pinned in place by Clearstone’s installation team.

The formers were in-filled with bright white and blue RAL coloured pigmented quartz - which matches the teams home kit colours – not forgetting a bright yellow beak! Finally a seal coat of resin was sprayed on the crest and anti-slip glass sand was applied as a finish. It took around eight days to complete.

Outcome

Laura said: “We wanted to install a giant club crest to welcome our fans to the Amex stadium and approached Clearstone as a company local to us. We are very happy with the final result and the quality of the workmanship is first class. The Clearstone team were a pleasure to work with and they ensured the job was completed professionally and promptly. We would not hesitate to recommend Clearstone to others”

And the reaction from the fans?

“Lots of people have been taking their picture in front of the crest and it seems to have gone down very well. I have heard that it is already becoming an ideal meeting point for people on Match day… as you can’t exactly miss it! And interestingly very few people seem to want to walk across it” says Laura Collins, Projects Manager