The ETG Football Club training center: a high-level challenge for quality equipment

Completed in record time and despite significant constraints, this site, costing 7,1 million euros, was delivered on time thanks to the efficiency and involvement of all stakeholders and companies, mostly from the Region.

It is on a site where stands a listed chapel from the XNUMXth century that the Club and its training center were to be established. A presence that conditioned the project designed by Aurélie Raoult, architect in Thonon, in collaboration with the Lyon firm Stéphane Giraud.

This achievement mobilized, around the general contractor Giletto (regional subsidiary of Vinci), many companies, Savoyard and partners of ETG FC for several of them. In close collaboration, the Tuna companies VEKA, Tec'Wind and VMA Fenétrier VEKA thus created, manufactured and then implemented all of the 200 joinery (PVC doors and windows) of the future premises of the Club.

A grand slam led drastically by all the professionals involved in this match against the clock ...

3.200 m² of buildings built together in record time

The project of the project owner of the ETG FC Football Club (Ligue 1) included the construction of a 1.600 m2 training centre ^spread over four levels, the creation of 1.200 m2 ^{of changing rooms, in an independent single-storey building and the rehabilitation of a 400 m2} farmhouse into press and weight training rooms.

The site was closely followed by the Architects of the Buildings of France (ABF), due to the presence on the ground of the Castle and the XNUMXth century chapel of Saint-Étienne de Blonay, listed in the Inventory of Historical Monuments. It was also important to design a differentiating architecture for the new buildings (shape, color), perfectly clearing the Castle. The changing rooms had to blend harmoniously into the landscape, not visually encroach on the facade and not be visible from the road.

Finally, all of the achievements had to comply with the usual safety rules (fire safety, accessibility), environmental concerns (recovery of water for automatic watering of the grounds, lawn maintenance) and with the 2005 Thermal Regulations. The Veritas office in Annecy monitored the progress of this project.

From the start of the works, in June 2012, a one-year constraint was imposed for their completion. Indeed, the ETG FC Club training center and its forty trainees, previously installed at Publier, had to leave the premises before the summer of 2013 to make way for a project to develop the Conservatory. from the coast and come and settle a few kilometers further on, on the Château de Blonay estate.

Adding to this tight schedule was the constraint of adhering to a budget limited to 7,1 million euros, which Stéphane Leguay, head of Giletto, a general building contractor, had to comply with, among others. "During the inauguration, Frédéric Thiriez, president of the Professional Football League, congratulated us on the quality of this project, which typically has budgets between 10 and 20 million euros ," the contractor explained.

Heritage, robustness ... A site and several challenges to take up

Adapting to the project's deadlines, budget, and architectural requirements, VEKA, the manufacturer Tec'Wind, and the installer VMA Fenétrier VEKA, partners since 1989, worked together to design, custom-manufacture, and install 200 PVC bay windows, windows, and security and exit doors on this exceptional site. "The design was crucial," explains Marc Defoly, director of Tec'Wind and VMA Fenétrier VEKA. " Working from facade plans that had to be strictly adhered to due to environmental sensitivity, we had to design functional joinery that was both practical and extremely durable."

The robustness of the joinery in the Training Center was indeed required by the heavy daily stresses anticipated for this type of shared facility. Furthermore, "all the joinery was completed in one month, which is a very short timeframe ," explains Marc Defoly.

Equipment combining aesthetics and technical performance

VEKA SOFTLINE 70 profiles have been chosen to manufacture joinery, bays, windows but also all security doors and exit doors, in plaxed two-tone. Indeed, on the advice of ABF, an anthracite gray plaxing for the exterior was recommended for the joinery, the interior remaining white.

In collaboration with VEKA's Technical Service, Tec'Wind custom-made the 200 PVC frames, meeting high thermal performance [Uw of 1,1 W/(m ² .K)] and fitted with highly resistant (SP10) and low-emissivity laminated double glazing.

The openings of all the bay windows - some exceeding 10 m2 ^- have also been fitted with galvanized steel reinforcements.

A set of'sports facilities reconciling comfort and quality of the living environment

Cédric Pourprix, in charge of the training center, is particularly satisfied with the rendering and the functionality of the PVC joinery, the charcoal gray color of which punctuates all the facades plastered in beige sandstone. The general aesthetic of the building is thus very successful.

Inaugurated on December 2, 2013, in the presence of Frédéric Thiriez, president of the Professional Football League, this exceptional achievement now hosts the Roses, players of ETG FC, formerly known as the Croix de Savoie, and their young hopes. The thermal performance of joinery has already been tested and appreciated, as has its functionality and ease of maintenance.

The Savoyard companies which have brilliantly taken up this challenge, by mobilizing for the completion of this project, now hope to be selected to participate in the castle renovation project, in order to continue this great collective adventure.

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