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Wembley Conference Centre

Wembley Conference Centre is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Wembley Conference Centre rather than just read about it. In short: Wembley Conference Centre was a conference centre in Wembley Park, London, England, that existed from 1977 to 2006, located next to Wembley Arena. History In the later 1970s, modern multi-purpose halls began opening in British towns and cities.

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Reference excerpt

Wembley Conference Centre was a conference centre in Wembley Park, London, England, that existed from 1977 to 2006, located next to Wembley Arena.

History In the later 1970s, modern multi-purpose halls began opening in British towns and cities. The first was Wembley Conference Centre on Empire Way in Wembley Park, designed for the British Electric Traction Company by R. Seifert and Partners. Construction began in May 1973 and it was officially opened by the Duke of Kent on 31 January 1977. Its main auditorium (called the Grand Hall) could seat 2,500 people. The Conference Centre was part of a larger development. Next to it were the 7,770 square feet (722 m2) Greenwich Rooms and Elvin House, a futuristic triangular office block, as well as the Wembley Exhibition Centre. Like the Conference Centre, the Exhibition Centre was part of a national trend for such venues. The addition of the Conference Centre and exhibition hall to the list of visitor attractions at Wembley Park led to Wembley Hill station being renamed Wembley Complex in May 1978. It would retain this name until May 1987, when it was again renamed, this time as Wembley Stadium. In preparation for a major redevelopment of both Wembley Stadium and the area immediately surrounding it, the conference centre building was demolished in September 2006. A mixed-use development called Quadrant Court was built in its place.

Events An early event was the January 1977 Model Engineer Exhibition, which had previously been held at the Seymour Hall in Marylebone. On 7 May 1977 the centre was the venue for the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest, where the United Kingdom came second. On 18 October 1977 it hosted the first ever Brit Awards ceremony (then called the 1977 BPI awards). The centre was used for numerous conferences, trade events, exhibitions, corporate hospitality, annual general meetings, university graduation ceremonies, banquets, indoor sport popular music and dance competitions. It hosted the World Cup Disco Dance Championships in May 1987 won by Jeanette Doughty (Len Goodman Dance Centre) as reported in Dance News A classical music concert by the National Youth Orchestra suggested the centre's acoustics were at best mediocre, in addition to which it was hard for classical music to attract large enough audiences to fill the Grand Hall. Between 1979 and 2006, the centre hosted the Benson & Hedges Masters snooker tournament. Other sports held there included boxing, wrestling, body building and darts. On 30 August 1995, the Centre hosted the first ever National Television Awards presented by Eamonn Holmes. On 7 November 1999, it hosted the darts match between the reigning PDC World Champion Phil Taylor and the reigning BDO World Champion Raymond van Barneveld, with a 60-minute clock ticking down to zero and with a short break around the half-way stage. The match was broadcast on ITV. Taylor won the match 21–10 in legs. It hosted three Ricky Hatton boxing matches where he was victorious. 21 October 2000, he defeated fellow Briton Jon Thaxton by unanimous decision, On 26 March 2001, he defeated Canadian Tony Pep with a fourth round TKO two and a half minutes in and on 15 December 2001, he defeated Australian Justin Rowsell with a second-round TKO with thirty six seconds to go. During Live Aid on 13 July 1985, the conference centre and exhibition halls were used to provide dressing rooms for the performers. Between 10 July 2004 and 22 April 2006, it hosted ten Cage Rage mixed martial arts events.

In popular culture In 1979 the Conference Centre was considered sufficiently futuristic to stand in for a conference centre on the colonised planet Atlay in the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7, in an episode called "Voice from the Past". The entrance to the conference centre was also used in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. The climax of The Professionals episode "The Madness of Mickey Hamilton" takes place inside the conference centre.

References

External links Official Wembley City site

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Wembley Conference Centre

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Wembley Conference Centre claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Wembley Conference Centre before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Wembley Conference Centre ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Wembley Conference Centre

In research: Wembley Conference Centre appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Wembley Conference Centre in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Wembley Conference Centre is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1977 establishments in England, 2006 disestablishments in England, 20th-century architecture in the United Kingdom, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Wembley Conference Centre outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Wembley Conference Centre in simple terms?

Wembley Conference Centre was a conference centre in Wembley Park, London, England, that existed from 1977 to 2006, located next to Wembley Arena. History In the later 1970s, modern multi-purpose halls began opening in British towns and cities.

Why does Wembley Conference Centre matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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