Stadium engineering

Through case studies on current and planned stadiums, and specific focus on specialist engineering fields, this text demonstrates how skills in fields such as dynamics, acoustics security, communications, and building services operations and maintenance are brought together to the benefit of stadium...

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Other Authors Culley, Peter, Pascoe, John (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Thomas Telford, 2005.
Subjects
Stadiums > Design and construction.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781680150520
1680150529
9780727738608
0727738607
072773217X
9780727732170
Physical Description1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Site appraisal / Tim Chapman
  • Sustainable development : a strategy for the steel construction sector / Graham Raven
  • Steel in stadium engineering / Peter Culley and John Pascoe
  • Façade engineering : steel and glass façades / Roger Howick
  • Detailing / Peter Culley and John Pascoe
  • Blast engineering in sports stadia / Jurek Tolloczko
  • Fire engineering in sports stadia / John Dowling, Brian Kirby, Ian Smith and Mick Green
  • Dynamic performance of stands / Michael Willford
  • Acoustics / Jim Griffiths
  • Sight lines and seating / Peter Culley and John Pascoe
  • Under terrace accommodation / Peter Culley and John Pascoe
  • Stadium circulation / Allan Gooch
  • Suites and club-type facilities / Peter Culley and John Pascoe
  • Crowd safety and control / Gordon Harris
  • Climate control / Peter Culley and John Pascoe
  • Stadium signage / Peter Culley and John Pascoe
  • Symbiosis between nature and advanced technologies / Kisho Kurokawa
  • Case studies
  • Design and construction of the Millennium Stadium roof, Cardiff
  • Horseracing, Newmarket
  • The construction of the City of Manchester Stadium roof
  • The steel roof of No. 1 Tennis Court Stadium at Wimbledon AELTCC.

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