page_title: Roath Lock
section_title: Construction
hierarchical_section_title: Roath Lock / Construction
caption_attribution_description: English: Construction of new BBC Wales Drama Village, Cardiff Bay
context_page_description: Roath Lock is a television production studio that housed BBC drama productions including Doctor Who. Both Casualty and Pobol y Cwm continue to be filmed here. The centre topped out on 20 February 2011 and filming for such productions commenced in autumn of the same year.
  The facility is located on a development site known as Porth Teigr, which included a proposed 3,700-square-metre digital media centre and an interactive exhibition titled Doctor Who Experience. The facility has 500 to 600 people working on site.
context_section_description: The 16,300 square metres (175,000 sq ft) of studios were constructed and fitted out within 13 months, marking the quickest BBC build of its size ever. The name of the drama village, Roath Lock, was announced at the topping out ceremony in January 2011.
  A £2.5m bridge linking the drama village to Cardiff Bay was lifted into place. The bridge was manufactured in nearby Newport from where it was broken down into twelve pieces to allow transportation. The building branding was manufactured in Cardiff by a local company which also designed and implement the wayfinding signs which was helped for a prestigious branding company
caption: Roath Lock during construction
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