Facility Systems

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chapter 7
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• Facility Systems

Facility Systems
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Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

• Ventilation helps produce better air quality
  through extracting older air and replacing it
  with new air. The American College of Sports
  Medicine (ACSM) recommends 8 to 12 air exchanges
  per hour in a gymnasium, which can be
  accomplished with several large ceiling exhaust
  fans.
• Heating
• Cooling

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Air Quality

• Factors that influence indoor air quality (IAQ)
• External variables climate, water infiltration,
  and ventilation and infiltration of outdoor air
• Building and HVAC-related concerns building
  design, structural materials, and HVAC design,
  operations, and materials
• Internal variables interior design, building
  materials (paints, sealants, adhesives, carpets),
  furnishings, equipment, occupant activities, pest
  management, cleaning agents, and any internal
  construction or renovation

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Energy Systems

• Where does energy come from for lighting and
  heating?
• How does energy reach the facility?
• Which types of sport facilities might be able to
  generate some of their own power?

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Lighting Systems

• Lighting is judged based on foot-candles, which
  represents the amount of light produced by a
  lighting system.
• Initial foot-candles relates to the amount of
  light produced with a new system.
• Maintained foot-candles is the level needed to
  compensate for inevitable loss of light due to an
  aging light system.

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Plumbing

• Wastewater systems basic plumbing systems for
  toilets, faucets, sprinklers, showers, and water
  fountains
• Fire-suppression system
• Laundry system

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Interior Systems

• Audiovisual systems
• Scoreboards
• Sound
• Lights
• Broadcasting
• Data

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Exterior Systems

• Roofs protection and drainage
• Building and grounds landscaping strategies
• Transportation
• Vehicles
• Escalators and elevators
• Parking

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Combined Interior and Exterior Systems

• Security systems
• Biometrics and access control
• CCTV
• Pest control facility design to avoid sprays and
  chemicals
• Waste management where should trash cans be
  placed?

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Summary

• Facilities are composed of numerous systems that
  help the facility operate and provide comfort and
  convenience to those in the facility.
• Everything (HVAC, plumbing systems, lights,
  scoreboards, and escalators) needs to be built,
  installed, and managed effectively.

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Discussion Questions and Activities

• Which system do you think is the most important
  for a sport facility?
• How would you manage a facility and handle a
  crisis if one of the major systems was not
  working during an event?
• Walk through a sport facility and identify all
  the systems and try to trace the system through
  the facility (i.e., see where it starts in the
  facility and how it travels through the facility).