Sports, entertainment venues need engineering athleticism   CSE:
Owners often like to make their venues multi-use facilities.
What unique engineering issues do you encounter with these
facilities, and how do you overcome them?  McKinlay: For multi-
use facilities the building systems need to flexible in capacity
and adaptable to serve many different demands depending on the
event. One of the key issues is acoustics in terms of
intelligibility of public address systems, but also the sense of
“liveliness” that audiences expect at any public event. For
example, a venue may need to sound quiet for a small concert but
then need to have a festive roar during a basketball game. You
need the space to be tune-able, but that means every system
needs to support that tune-ability. Often, systems for acoustics
and sound, fire management, lighting, and climate control need
to be considered holistically from an integrated approach in
order to accommodate several different potential configurations
for a venue. Arup has always