Fan first integrated stadia bowl construction method
AssigneeAecom
InventorAlastair Niall MacGregor
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Abstract
Seating terraces constructed from SPS materials are used to provide integrated HVAC to the seating areas of stadia, arena bowls and similar structures. Portions of the terraces are enclosed from their backsides to provide large ducts or plenums that run beneath the seating terraces where openings into the plenum located between the seats at regular intervals deliver conditioned air to the seating areas. A large header duct runs around the stadium bowl above the top row of seats and delivers air to plenums that run beneath and are integral with the stadium stairways. The seating terrace ducts receive their air supply from the stairway plenums.
Claims22
An improved system for arena bowls which provides both the bowl-seating structure and delivery of conditioned air to occupied zones comprising:
- terraced seating surfaces wherein at least one of said terraced seating surfaces is closed along its rear surfaces to form integral ducts;
- stair zones closed on their lower surfaces to form integral plenums which are in fluidic communication with the integral ducts;
- a header duct routed near a top of the arena bowl with fluidic communications to the integral plenums and to a source of conditioned air;
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- diffusers spaced apart along surfaces of the terraced seating surfaces to emit conditioned air into the occupied zones of the arena bowl.
An improved system for arena bowls which provides both the bowl-seating structure and delivery of conditioned air to occupied zones comprising:
- terraced seating surfaces wherein at least one of the terraces is closed at its rear surfaces to form integral ducts;
- stair zones closed on their lower surfaces to form integral plenums which are in fluidic communication with the integral ducts and with a source of conditioned air;
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- diffusers spaced apart along surfaces of the terraced seating surfaces to emit conditioned air into the occupied zones of the arena bowl.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.