Athletics arena. Tent sports arenas. How do some foreign arenas differ from Russian ones?

This page of the online store of the company "Sports Technologies" provides information on the complex equipment of indoor track and field arenas. Such work is divided into two types:

  1. Complete equipment of the arena on a turnkey basis for newly built facilities, facilities after reconstruction or repair.
  2. Retrofitting, refurbishing or updating existing equipment and inventory.

Athletics arenas are indoor sports facilities with a multifunctional sports core for conducting training sessions and athletics competitions.

As required International Association athletics federations (IAAF), the track and field arena is a class V facility. It usually includes the following elements:

  • main arena;
  • gym;
  • hall of general physical training;
  • acrobatics hall;
  • massage;
  • administrative block.

The main arena hosts objects such as:

  • oval circular treadmill 200 meters long;
  • straight tracks 60 meters long for sprinting and hurdling;
  • training Treadmills(for working out the start, development speed qualities);
  • sectors for shot put, javelin, discus and hammer throws;
  • sectors for long jump, high jump and pole vault.

An outdoor sports infrastructure is located next to the indoor facility: treadmills for training and competitions in summer time, various open playing fields, outdoor exercise equipment, etc.

According to the requirements of the IAAF, competitive athletics arenas must be equipped with:

  • Equipment for timing, photo finish and false start.
  • An information board with electronic means for measuring and displaying the result, as well as the output of operational information to the central computer.

Since 1995, the IAAF has approved uniform standards in the construction and operation of sports facilities. In accordance with them, the complex equipment of arenas for athletics includes the following sequence of works:

  1. Drawing up packing lists, placement plans (if necessary) and estimates, assistance in preparing the terms of reference for the purchase (if necessary), providing data for the passport of a sports facility.
  2. Laying sports coverage. It is required to lay many types of coatings at the same time, depending on the purpose of the sector or premises. Modern coatings should dampen the negative impact of intense loads on the musculoskeletal system and at the same time contribute to the development of the necessary skills. So, for example, the standards provide for a polygon with coatings that have different elastic-dynamic properties.
  3. Installation of stands (stationary, prefabricated, collapsible, telescopic, etc.), tunnels, referee seats, etc.
  4. Installation of sports equipment (linear-modular equipment for evaluating running technique, track and field athletics stands and bars, barriers for running, starting blocks, fencing and dividing nets, marking sports fields, as well as complex equipment for gyms, general physical training halls, acrobatics, etc.) .
  5. Arrangement of locker rooms and equipment storage areas, supply of track and field accessories, throwing equipment and other sports equipment, as well as safety, lining and children's mats.
  6. Test equipment in test mode.
  7. Delivery and acceptance of work.

When performing complex equipment of athletics arenas, we take into account four important factors:

  1. Quality. The issue of ensuring compliance with Russian and international standards of such facilities requires an expert level of knowledge, since the Russian SNiPs currently used (SNiP 2.08.02-85, SNiP 11-76-78 " Athletic facilities”, VNS 46-86 “Sports and fitness facilities”), and new annexes to them have significant features and some differences with the requirements of the IAAF.
  2. Safety. Compliance with safety requirements, c. including SP 332.1325800.2017. Athletic facilities. Design rules.
  3. Functional. Accounting for all requirements of the IAAF, ARAF ( All-Russian Federation track and field athletics), requirements for sports and parameters of technical compatibility of equipment, requirements for the size and zoning of various training zones and adjacent premises.
  4. Budget. Right choice configuration options, based on the purpose: universal or special, and level (amateur, professional, international class) athletics arena.

Without special training and experience to correctly combine these factors is almost impossible. Trust us: we will solve all organizational issues ourselves, select necessary equipment according to the technical requirements of the project, as well as the requirements of the IAAF, VFLA, SP and GOST R, and as a result we will draw up a competent specification (packing list), combining many groups of equipment and inventory for different types sports.

Space-planning solutions

The dimensions of the building in the extreme axes are 112 x 70 m. Under the three-story part there is a basement with engineering facilities and communications. Number of floors in the building - 1-4 floors, number of floors - 1-3 floors. The height of the hall is 9.85 -10.61 m to the bottom of the truss structures. The height of the basement floor is 3.0 m, the first floor is 3.9 m, the second floor is 4.5 m, the third floor to the bottom of the roof is 3.4 m. and 16.22 m for a one-story arena hall. The fire-technical height of the three-story part is 9.6 m. The level of the finished floor of the first floor, corresponding to the absolute mark of 74.20 in the Baltic height system, is taken as a relative mark of 0.000. The spatial organization of the building is determined by its functional purpose - providing training and competitive processes according to athletics. The main volume of the one-story indoor athletics arena includes: a circular track 200 m long into six separate tracks of 0.9 m each; a 60 m sprint track into six separate 1.22 m lanes; two sectors for high jumps; sector for pole vaulting with a runway width of 1.25 m; two sectors for long jump and triple jump with a runway width of 1.25 m; sector for training discus throwing into the net with a protective fence; sector for shot put with a protective fence; two pantries of sports equipment. On the longitudinal side of the arena there is a tribune for 350 seats, 4 of which are provided for disabled people with lesions of the musculoskeletal system in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the hall. Also on the podium, separately from the seats for the spectators, there is a judges' box for 16 seats with the possibility of placing judges in the alignment with the common finish line. For the judging box, a separate service ladder to the arena is provided. The zone of judges' quarters is located on two levels in the volume of the three-story part of the administrative and economic extension and has a direct connection with the box for judges. The first level has rooms panel of judges, judges for information, scoreboard management and musical accompaniment, in the second - the premises of the secretariat and copying equipment, storage of prizes and photo finish with video editing. The premises of the judges for information, scoreboard control and photo finish have windows facing the arena. A scoreboard is installed on the wall of the arena, located opposite the judges' box. The tribune has direct communication with the lobby of the first floor of the three-story part. The arena is provided with the necessary emergency exits, taking into account the possible presence of disabled people. On the first floor of the administrative and economic extension in axes 2-7, a block of locker rooms for athletes and coaches with a separate entrance was designed. In the same block there is a cloakroom for outerwear of athletes and a vestibule for athletes, in which a resting place is arranged. All rooms have a convenient connection with the arena through a separate corridor. The central part of the first floor is occupied by rooms for visitors: a vestibule combined with a foyer in front of the entrance to the hall, a cloakroom and a bathroom. nodes for visitors, as well as the reception desk - a reception with the function of a cash desk, security and staff premises. In axes 19-21 of the first floor, there is a doping control zone and a medical room (doctor's office) for first aid and examination-consultations for those involved. In the axes 21-25 of the first floor, an utility zone is allocated for the accommodation of workers and engineering and technical personnel, as well as utility rooms serving the cafe - a loading room and a temporary storage room for garbage. Household The block has its own entrance. On the second floor of the administrative building there is a block of saunas (separately for men and women), a massage room for one table, gym with locker rooms and a cafe for 40 seats with ancillary facilities. Administrative premises, a meeting room and ventilation chambers are provided on the third floor of the administrative building. Ventilation chambers are fenced off from rooms with permanent residence of people by double partitions with an air gap of 40 mm. In the basement there are premises of ITP, water metering unit and pumping station, electrical panel. For MGN access to the second and third floors of the building, two elevators with a carrying capacity of 630 kg and 1000 kg are provided, the cabin dimensions are 1100x1400mm and 1100x2100mm, respectively, without machine rooms. Elevators are made without a lift hall with shaft enclosing structures with a fire resistance rating of at least EI 45 and doorways in the elevator shaft enclosures are filled with fire doors with a fire resistance rating of at least EI 30. A platform of at least 2 m is arranged in front of the elevators. Roof exits are provided for six external open stairs type P1-2 and two exits are organized directly from the stairwells. Fire escapes of the P1-1 type are arranged on the roof drops. Traditional non-exploited roll roofing with an internal drain on the base of metal corrugated board - on the main volume of the arena (slope 2.2%), and on a reinforced concrete slab on the three-story part (slope 1.5-5.6%). The basement of the building is made of three-layer masonry (solid brick 250mm - mineral wool insulation of the NG100 mm group - solid brick 120mm) with porcelain stoneware cladding in a cement-sand solution. In the enclosing structures of the facade, wall sandwich panels of element-by-element assembly are used with filling from mineral wool of the NG group and facing with metal cassettes. On the cylindrical forms of the main entrance, a hinged ventilated facade is used with a heater made of mineral wool of the NG group and facing with metal cassettes. Glazing is carried out by stained glass structures - single-chamber double-glazed windows on an aluminum stained-glass profile, and separately located windows - single-chamber double-glazed windows on a metal-plastic profile. External and vestibule doors are insulated. Tempered glass visors on metal suspensions are provided above all entrances accessible by MGN. Above the main entrance, the protruding part of the second floor serves as a visor. Interior space solutions are dictated by the functional purpose of building blocks. The zoning of the main functional groups of premises has been completed, taking into account the necessary technological connections between them. The color scheme of the interiors is provided in light neutral colors with the necessary markings and designations for various MGN groups.

Constructive decisions

The building of the athletics arena includes a 3-storey administrative block (AHB) with a basement, with storage rooms, locker rooms, administrative premises and an arena. 6 a. information about the topographic, engineering-geological, hydrogeological, meteorological and climatic conditions of the land plot provided for the placement of the capital construction object; The construction site for the construction of an athletics arena is located in the city district. For a relative mark of 0.000 m, the mark of the “clean” floor of the 1st floor is taken, equal to the absolute mark of +74.200 m in the Baltic system of heights. The designed building belongs to II (normal) level of responsibility (GOST 27751-88*). Climatic region of construction II B. (Appendix A map of climatic zoning for the construction of joint venture 131.13330.2012). The normative value of the snow cover weight per 1 m2 of horizontal surface is 0.24 t/m2. (IVth district). The normative value of wind pressure is 0.038 t/m2. (III district). The normative depth of seasonal freezing for bulk soils is 1.88 m. According to paragraph 4.3 of SP 14.13330.2012, the design is carried out according to OCP-2015 type A maps, and the city is not seismically hazardous. 6 b. information about the special natural climatic conditions of the territory on which the land plot provided for the placement of the capital construction object is located; According to the engineering and geological conditions, the territory allocated for construction belongs to the III category of complexity. Geotechnical category - II (medium). The relief of the territory is slightly dissected. Packed bulk soils (EGE 1): dug up soil-vegetative layer with sand, exhibit weakly heaving properties; Light silty loams (IGE 2a) are subsiding, exhibit weakly heaving properties; Sands are fine, dense (EGE 3) are low-moisture, with interlayers of loam; Subsiding soils are developed throughout the survey site. According to the results of chemical analyzes of water extracts, soils in relation to concrete of normal permeability, in accordance with Appendix B to SP 28.13330.2012, are slightly aggressive in terms of sulfate content and non-aggressive in terms of chloride content. The primers are highly corrosive to carbon and low-alloy steel. According to engineering-geological and hydrogeological conditions, taking into account the design of structures, the work site belongs to the category of unflooded territories category W-A . The designed building belongs to II (normal) level of responsibility (GOST 27751-88*). The ACB building is designed according to a monolithic frame structural scheme with stiffening cores. The bearing elements are reinforced concrete columns, reinforced concrete diaphragms of the building rigidity, as well as the walls of the staircase. The building is cut into three blocks with expansion joints, with a block length of 44/24/44 m. The arena building is designed according to a bonded frame scheme with a metal coating on reinforced concrete columns. Arena foundations: free-standing pile foundations on columnar grillages with hinged-supported rand beams. Adopted on the basis of the data of the technical report on engineering and geological surveys for the facility: “Design and construction of an athletics arena in the urban district. Column foundations are free-standing stepped foundations. Concrete adopted class B25 W6 F150. The foundations have a concrete preparation, made of concrete class B12.5, 100 mm thick, laid on a pre-compacted base. The design load on the pile is assumed to be 49 tf, the length of the pile is 11.12 m, the cross section of the pile is 300x300 mm. Bearing walls of ACB: longitudinal, transverse walls and columns of the building are designed from monolithic reinforced concrete. Reinforcement of walls and pylons is provided by flat welded meshes, reinforcement of lintels above the openings is provided by spatial knitted frames. The thickness of the load-bearing walls is 160 mm for stair-lift units. Concrete adopted class B25 W6 F150 for basement walls, class B25 W4 F100. Armature class A500C and A240. Bearing columns of the arena: Arena: Prefabricated reinforced concrete columns with a section of 500x400 mm with a rigid embedment of free-standing grillages in a glass. Concrete is accepted class B30 W6 F100, reinforcement class A500C and A240. AHB: Monolithic columns with a section of 400x400 mm are based on columnar grillages and floor slabs floor by floor. Concrete is accepted class B25 W6 F100, reinforcement class A500C and A240. Bearing walls of the basement: monolithic walls 250 mm thick, coated with bituminous waterproofing. Basement insulation is provided by the AR project. External self-supporting enclosing walls, with floor-by-floor support on AHB floor slabs: 250 mm brick, mineral wool insulation and stone cladding. Made from hinged vent. facade with cladding with metal cassettes on bricks 250mm and reinforced concrete. Facade glazing is made by stained-glass structures using an extruded aluminum alloy profile for translucent enclosing structures in accordance with GOST 22233-2001. The external enclosing walls of the arena: - In the lower part there is a brick plinth resting on the rand beams; - In the upper part of the sandwich panel element-by-element assembly with metal cassette cladding. - Facade triple glazing for the entire height of the building is made with stained-glass structures using a profile extruded from aluminum alloys for translucent enclosing structures in accordance with GOST 22233-2001. - fire barrier EI 45 made of solid brick 250 mm thick along the G axis, fastened with flexible connections to the arena columns. Internal self-supporting walls: - glass, plasterboard, block Material of partitions: hollow brick KR-r-pu 50x120x65/1NF/125/1.4/25/GOST 530-2012, for rooms with a wet regime (shower rooms) solid brick KR-r - according to 250x120x65/1 NF/125/1.4/25/GOST 530-2012, for smoke exhaust shafts, solid brick KR-r-to 250x120x65/1NF/150/2.0/25/GOST 530-2012 For sections of external walls : hollow brick KR-r-pu 250x120x65/1NF/125/1.4/25/GOST 530-2012. Reinforced concrete lintels according to GOST 948-84. The masonry of self-supporting walls is attached to the reinforced concrete frame of the building with flexible ties in anti-corrosion design (perforated tape 0.7 mm fastened with a powder gun to a dowel-nail 04) through 4 rows of masonry. Stair flights and landings: type-setting on steel stringers, plastered on a grid, and monolithic flights. Ventilation: according to the TOR for the design of the outdoor unit. ACB: Monolithic reinforced concrete with a thickness of 200 mm and a contour beam measuring 250x400 mm, with a thickening at the junction with columns. Concrete adopted class B25 W4 F100. The ceiling above the basement is designed as a slab supported along the contour on the walls of the basement and on the columns in the central span. Floor slabs and roofing are designed as supported contour beams and on columns in the central span. Arena flooring according to WP2: designed from metal structures. The coating is made on steel trusses with a span of 54m. The end crossbars (axes 2, 24) are made in the form of steel trusses with a span of 30m and steel beams with a span of 12m. Step crossbars -6m. The project provides for the installation of a solid steel flooring made of steel ribbed profiles along steel purlins laid on the upper chords of the trusses. Covering in axes 1-2, 24-25/Е-Ж is made of steel ribbed profiles (profiled sheeting) laid on steel beams. Arena floor composition: geotextile; compacted sand cushion 300 mm; polyethylene film; reinforced concrete slab 150 mm (concrete class B15, reinforcement A500C); cement-sand screed 100 mm; synthetic coating 50 mm. A monolithic retaining wall is provided along the contour of the running arena with a height of 600700 mm to provide a 12% slope of the running track. Retaining wall made of B20,W6 class concrete, 200 mm thick, A500C class reinforcement. Retaining walls are provided for sand pits for pole vault and long jump. They are made of reinforced concrete with a wall thickness of 160 mm, of class B15 concrete, class A500C reinforcement. Pits are installed according to section AR. The calculation of load-bearing reinforced concrete structures was performed using the SCAD 21.1 program. Pile foundations were calculated in the program. As a result of the calculation, the linear forces in the walls and the forces in the columns, the shearing and bending forces in the lintels, the span and support moments in the floor slabs were determined. As a result of the calculation of the DCF, the reinforcement of all load-bearing elements was assigned. The execution of calculations of load-bearing structures is focused on the application of the finite element method in the form of the displacement method (FEM). The division of the plate elements of the building into finite elements is assigned taking into account that the internal forces determined by the calculation in the center of each finite element correspond to the actual work of the structure. In the design scheme, the connection nodes of foundations, columns and ceilings are assumed to be rigid. The calculation of floors is made for the total load, taking into account the own weight of the structure of the slab, floor, partitions, equipment, people, taking into account the appropriate overload factors for strength and crack resistance. As a result of the calculation of the DCF, the reinforcement of all load-bearing elements was assigned. The calculation is made taking into account the joint work of all building structures, foundations and the foundation of the building. To take into account the joint work of the building structures with the foundation at the level of the bottom of the piles, elastic links are introduced into the design scheme, simulating the elastic work of the soil and uneven settlement. 6 f. description and justification of technical solutions that provide the necessary strength, stability, spatial immutability of buildings and structures of the capital construction object as a whole, as well as their individual structural elements, assemblies, parts in the process of manufacturing, transportation, construction and operation of the capital construction object. The spatial rigidity of the ACB is provided by the horizontal disks of the floors and the rigidity of the frame. Stair nodes make up the rigid core of the building. To perceive the pushing force in the piers and columns, at the points of their interface with the floor slab, capitals are provided. The step of bearing columns and piers is irregular and dictated by architectural requirements. The invariability of the metal coating of the arena is ensured by a solid disk formed by the flooring, fixed to the girders. Runs unfasten the upper chords of farms. The upper and lower chords of the trusses are untied out of the plane by vertical braced trusses and struts.

Frame and tent technologies are gaining popularity and awning sports arenas grow like mushrooms all over the country after the rain. It is already difficult to imagine a football field or a hockey rink without an awning shelter. Tennis, futsal, football, basketball, volleyball in unsupported awning, quick assembly hangars. People feel comfortable, and from a business point of view, this is the most practical option. We have great experience and we are ready to share it with you. Football with the help of such arenas using frame-tent technology gains a second wind. According to climatic features, when we have 5 months of warmth a year, it is good that indoor forms make it possible to play football all year round, both for children and parents, only your desire can serve as a limitation. If this is a small hangar for mini football or futsal, you can lay a rubber floor or lay parquet and make the complex universal, where you can also play basketball, volleyball, etc.

Making football and hockey more accessible

And how many boys dream of being like their idols Malkin, Ovechkin, Kovalchuk? Hockey is not an easy way, where there are many obstacles and only a few reach their goal. Desire and financial capabilities are the main thing, but one should not forget about the availability of the hockey arena. It’s not easy to find free ice now, and in the best possible way and most quickly they will help solve the issue of sheltering open hockey boxes. Modern technologies make it possible to exploit ice in tent hangars all year round, despite the external climatic conditions. As a rule, in addition to the necessary refrigeration equipment to maintain a certain temperature of its surface, it is important to provide with the help of two awnings and a heater inside a kind of thermos that will keep the cold in the warm season and maintain the set temperature in the winter.

With the help of tent sports arenas, the task of increasing the number of sports facilities to involve everyone more people in mass sports, can be solved quickly and relatively capital constructions are not expensive. Hockey, figure skating, short track, curling, arenas made in an awning version are ideal for practicing these sports.

Technical characteristics of the frame tent hangars have a reliable, reasonable metal consumption, designed for the climatic features of the region with its wind and snow loads. Financially, frame tent projects and their implementation differ from capital structures by a decrease in the estimated component by two or even three times. The functional component of such arenas does not differ from capital structures in any way, and visitors note a comfortable feeling from daylight. The awning covering allows to provide good light transmission and save on lighting.

Tennis takes on a new look

Concerning Big Tennis, the construction of hangars for this sport is also due to our climatic features. Place in the hangar tennis court can be both along and across. The construction for one court or two, three, four everything is regulated only by your desire and economic feasibility.


You can order a project for one court in your country house, in a country house if the land plot allows and there is a desire, I see no obstacles. If you have more ambitious goals, for example, the creation of a tennis school, then it may be better to immediately order a hangar for two 38x38 courts, for example. In such a hangar, space must be allocated for showers, locker rooms, toilet rooms, coaching and medical rooms. Awning sports arenas are usually insulated. Depending on the possibilities, a gas boiler is installed or, in the absence of a pellet boiler. Along the perimeter of the hangar, heat strippers are installed, which are directed inside and down the premises for the most economical saving of heat circulation.

Any of these projects has its payback. It is important to understand that a hangar in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Novosibirsk and other large cities pays off faster due to the increased rental rate and high demand. Therefore, if your project is purely commercial, calculate everything in advance. But even if you made a mistake with the place and you are not satisfied with the client flow, our structures are collapsible and they can also be disassembled and assembled in another place, district, city.

If you are interested in one of our variants of Tent sports arenas, we are ready to answer all your questions and make a preliminary price offer for the hangar, and at your request we will make a turnkey calculation.