Illumination Design And Simulation For Outdoor Sporting Arenas

Widespread demand for sporting activities in the night has led to the integration of lighting design in the development of sporting arenas due mainly to lower temperatures at night, increase in demand for sporting facilities and leisure considerations. Illumination of sporting arenas is essentially based on floodlighting. In this thesis the design procedures, calculations and factors for floodlighting were applied to a football field and the best aiming points to achieve the most uniform illumination using Monte Carlo Analysis programmed in MATLAB. A more uniformly illuminated field, would have less glare, but the more uniformly designed illumination was checked whether it would lead to less energy consumption and hence reduction in project cost. The illumination which was simulated by the Pointby-Point equation derived in algebraic form with adjustments for light intensity changes had the result depicted in Isolux contours.

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Abubakar Maude,a registered professional engineer,has been involved in several engineering projects from project conception,to design,supervision,testing and commission over a 30year career period in the private and public sectors. He has a keen interest in engineering design, invention and innovation of projects,products and services.