The Latest Pan Stadia magazine had a good green facility article new LEED facilities including Target Field which uses solar reflective material on the roof canopy, was built adjacent to public transportation options, and uses low flow water fictures designed to save 4.2 million gallons a year.
The first real LEED sport facility in the US was the Penn State Medlar Field, a $30 million facility that included water efficient landscaping, uses wind powered turbine, and used almost 76% construction waste recycling rate. Another one was the $34 million Detroit Lions trainign center and office which used bamboo flooring and the team took efforts to preserve surrounding wetlands.
The new Target Center has installed a new 2.5 acre green roof which uses pre-grown mats with various native plants. Teh roof used over 11 miles of sustainable, water-efficient irrigation lines and a leak detector that can pinpoint any potential leaks. The builder used 95% of the old roof as building amterial. The system can grab almost an inch of rainfall without any runoff, which can help reduce one million gallons of rain drainign into the Mississippi each year.Green roofs are also being built with several Olympic facilities in England.
Talking about roofs, Melbourne's Rectangular Stadium has a unique bio-frame roof that uses 50% less steel than a regular cantilever roof. You can watch the construction at: http://www.mopt.com.au/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-178/.
Lastly, Croke Park in Dublin revealed that the 82,000 capacity stadium generated more than 4,500 tons of C02 annually. Fans have been able to offer carbon offset pledges to benefit the afcility. If a fan uses public transportation or uses less electricty cooking the Gaelic Athletic Association is able to aggregate these energy reduction pledges into CO2 ofsets. Whiel the program was meant to run for six years, the facility became carbon neutral after just one year form the fan offsets.
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