As part of their recent extensive renovations, Twycross Zoo wished to create a new focal point to the zoos entrance. To this end they commissioned a new visitor centre comprising a café bar gift shop and two new exhibits, one displaying their world renowned collection of Wader Birds and the other a flagship enclosure displaying the brand new snow leopard collection..

The wader birds are housed in a capacious landscaped exhibit formed over several levels and incorporating features sign as a fisherman’s hut and a large pond. Base structures provided the design and engineering for the entire enclosure, and then delivered and rigged the free issue steel, cables and netting on site.

The snow leopard enclosure also faces onto the new visitor centre and is formed from galvanized steel perimeter posts and tie rods, supported by stainless steel cables and netting, keeping the people of Leicestershire safe from the leopards, and vice versa.