• The new Grandstand with a Galleria running throughout, with boxes and viewing on the track side, and most restaurants and catering facilities on the south side.
• The Grandstand consists of four main cores, which hold, and hide, all the lift shafts, cabling, air-conditioning, waste ducts and water.
• There is over 700km of cabling and wiring integrated into one central IT network.
• Beneath the 370 metre long (57 metres wide) Grandstand, under the new concourse level, runs an underground supply road, which will allow service traffic to access the site almost unnoticed.    
• An 8,000 viewing capacity parade ring, located behind the stand at the heart of the racecourse and easier to reach for many more people.
• A horsewalk from the Parade Ring, under the new building to the track.
• The Pre-Parade Ring and saddling boxes have been re-sited in and around the historic Totalisator building, where the stable block was originally built in 1878.
• Two new underpasses below the track, ensuring an uninterrupted turf course.
• The former main turnstile hall has had its shutters removed and its openings glazed, allowing a view of the new building from Ascot High Street.
• The Pavilion has been refurbished, providing bars, betting facilities, a public library, the Parish Office and a meeting hall.
• The exterior red brick walls and the Grade II listed buildings on the perimeter of the site have been renovated.

Several projects were added to the scheme throughout the redevelopment, such as the Holloway’s underpass, which was originally planned for post 2006, the Weatherbys Owners Bar and the integration of a new reservoir. The redevelopment will come in within Ascot’s planned funding arrangements, at just over the £200 million mark.

Staffing
140 full time staff are employed by Ascot and Sodexho rising to over 6000 at Royal Ascot.

Hospitality and Catering Facilities

• There are 265 boxes in the new stand, ranging from those on Level 6 which can seat 10 people to one that can seat 40.
• There are 42 private Loges (bays of seats with a course view).
• There are 7 restaurants within the Grandstand which will be supplemented by temporary facilities at Royal Ascot, including the Bessborough and Carriages restaurants and the Old Paddock Chalets.
• There will be 39 kitchens operational for Royal Ascot each year with 25 specific to the new Grandstand, plus finishing kitchens, one for every two boxes.

In elevation, the building curves from a high point in the centre down towards each end to ensure the greatest concentration of activity is in the heart of the building where the Parade Ring and finish line are located.  The curve also responds to the brow of the hill on which the grandstand sits - it has been designed to hug the land and to become part of the landscape.

The panels are beige in colour on arrival but designed to be bleached white by the sun this summer. In fact from the air, the outsides are virtually white already.

The roof plays a big part in the natural ventilation of the stand through a series of louvres. These are slatted metal strips, fitted across an opening to allow the air and light to enter the building whilst providing protection from the elements.  

Attached to the inside of the roof structure are disc-shaped mirrors called ‘diffusers’.  These are part of the Galleria lighting system.  The light fittings are located out of sight of the racegoers at Level 7 and direct light beams up onto these discs.  The diffusers act as mirrors dissipating the light and deflecting it down into the Galleria.  The benefits are that light fittings can be re-lamped from a low level and racegoers don’t have to look straight into a light source.

• 8 staircases attached to the four cores which support the building
• 6 primary circulation stairs within the Galleria
• 6 escape stairs at the end of the building outside the Galleria
• 24 sets of escalators in total
• 40 bridges in the Galleria, connecting the north and south sides of the stand.
• 5 kilometres of balustrades

The three lane Holloways Underpass runs under the track just before the home turn, allowing those parked on the Heath to exit during racing. The two lane 50m Winkfield Road Underpass has ended the 220 year history of the “Tan” road crossing and allows the Straight Mile course to run uninterrupted 7m above the traffic flow below.