Since the days of ancient Greece and Rome, the concept of stadium has evolved rapidly. Modern stadium projects are often designed considering integration of sustainable features, enhanced occupant comfort and lighting capabilities. This is ideally due to the high investment involved to make prestigious, short-term sporting events a success. While there’s a huge responsibility on the shoulders of architects and structural engineers to bring such complex building structure to life; a larger, more challenging part also involves designing and integrating MEP systems.
The differences in a regular building and a stadium in terms of designing mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems, is what makes the need of coordination critical for MEP teams to remain efficient in their design and installation processes. And, this is achievable through BIM (Building Information Modeling).
MEP Challenges for Stadium
The very first step for such a large facility…