Lord's Cricket Ground
"Once we’d finished no one could tell we’d even been there."
The Cricket World Cup is only the occasion it has become because tens of millions of fans all over the world can switch on and tune in whenever they want.
After the new Press Centre at Lords was built its first test was the 1998 World Cup – but the communications and power access was never going to be easy, as the new Centre was surrounded by “the hallowed turf” and the only slightly less hallowed nursery ground.
It needed a very detailed radar mapping survey of the entire perimeter to determine the best route which ended up going directly under the nursery pitch square, under the Press Centre itself and back round via the main ground outfield.
“This was most definitely the closest I’ve ever come to doing a job in steel toe capped slippers!” recalls M.D. Andy Howe. “The sense of responsibility and the need to get it absolutely right just two months before the World Cup was more than daunting but once we’d finished no one could tell we’d even been there."