{"id":7584,"date":"2014-11-06T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T11:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=7584"},"modified":"2014-11-06T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T11:31:14","slug":"draka-contract-for-manchesters-new-hotel-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/draka-contract-for-manchesters-new-hotel-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Draka contract for Manchester\u2019s new Hotel Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/View.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7589\" alt=\"View\" src=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/View-300x159.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/View-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/View-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/View.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Draka\u2019s Universal Cabling (UC) Connect system is to be installed throughout Hotel Football, a football-themed hotel being built next to Manchester United\u2019s Old Trafford stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Draka\u2019s space-saving Cat. 6 cabling system was proposed by Draka installation partner Abzorb after they secured the contract to install the voice and data network cabling and a 200 point digital TV distribution system at the development.<\/p>\n<p>The 139-roomed hotel will be home to the Old Trafford Supporters Club, which is housed in the basement. The hotel will also feature a ground floor restaurant and shop, a mezzanine lounge and a first floor conference space; above which are seven floors of hotel rooms.<\/p>\n<p>The building is crowned by a roof-top mini five-a-side football pitch which doubles as an event space.<\/p>\n<p>Cable distributor Comtec Cable Accessories recommended Draka\u2019s UC Connect cabling system to Abzorb. It is now Abzorb&#8217;s preferred solution for both Cat 6 and Cat 6a and has been installed by Abzorb in a variety of projects.<\/p>\n<p>Kev Hall of Abzorb said: \u201cNot only is Draka Cat 6 solution extremely competively priced, it is also very installer friendly and we recommend it to our clients before any other system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Designed by AEW architects, the \u00a323 million football-themed hotel and club is being developed by GG Hospitality, a management company set up by former Manchester United players Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville and The Old Trafford Supporters Club. It is due to open Winter 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draka\u2019s Universal Cabling (UC) Connect system is to be installed throughout Hotel Football, a football-themed hotel being built next to Manchester United\u2019s Old Trafford stadium. Draka\u2019s space-saving Cat. 6 cabling system was proposed by Draka installation partner Abzorb after they secured the contract to install the voice and data network cabling and a 200 point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,275,326,564],"class_list":["post-7584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-draka","tag-hotel-football","tag-kev-hall","tag-universal-cabling-connect-system","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}