Football and Netball Lighting Guide

40 Pages·2008·0.43 MB·English

Football and
Netball
Lighting Guide
Index
1 Minister’s Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . .3 7 Outdoor Netball Lighting
Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
2 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Types of Floodlights . . . . . . . . . . . .26
3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Height and Type of Poles . . . . . . . .27
Layout and Pole Locations . . . . . . .27
4 Case Studies
Power Supply – How to Plan? . . . .28
4.1 Stawell FNC - Football training . .6
Control Supply – How Should
4.2 Learmonth and Cobden FNCs Lights be Controlled? . . . . . . . . . . .28
– Football club competition . . . .8
Lighting Plan Example
4.3 North Shore FNC – Netball
Single court – Training (100 lux) . . . 29
training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
– Competition (200 lux). 30
4.4 Apollo Bay FNC – Netball
training/club competition . . . . .12 Twin Court – Training (100 lux) . . . 31
– Competition (200 lux). 32
5 Planning Process
Planning Approach . . . . . . . . . . . .14 8 Common Provisions
Planning Permits . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Visual Requirements of the
Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Visual Requirements of the
Spectators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
6 Australian Rules Football Lighting
Allowance for Depreciation of . . . . . .
Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Illuminance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Illuminance Requirements . . . . . . .16
Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Where to get Further Help? . . . . . .34
Types of Floodlights . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Height and Type of Poles . . . . . . . .18
9 Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Layout and Pole Locations . . . . . . .19
Power Supply – How to Plan? . . . .20 10 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . .36
Control Supply – How Should
Lights be Controlled? . . . . . . . . . . .21
11 Attachments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Lighting Plan Example
Training (50 lux) . . . . . . . . . . .22
Club Competition (100 lux) . . .23
Semi professional (200 lux) . . .24
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Minister’s Foreword
Grassroots sport plays an important role The Football and Netball Lighting Guide
in our community. Local sporting clubs aims to answer key questions local
are places where people gather with family sporting clubs, organisations and councils
and friends, offering great opportunities may face when undertaking new lighting
to keep active and mix socially. projects. It offers recommendations for
planning, design, maintenance and
With the wonderful opportunities local
operation of a variety of lighting systems.
sport provides, it’s not surprising that
participation in football and netball is on The guide also includes great examples
the rise across Victoria. While it is pleasing of lighting projects across Victoria, which
to see more and more people becoming demonstrate innovative and cost effective
active, increased participation also places ways communities and local sporting clubs
more demand on local facilities. can maximise the use of their facilities and
playing surfaces and encourage more
In response to this growing demand the
people to get active in sport and
Victorian Government developed the
recreation.
Country Football and Netball Program.
Since 2005, this program has invested Good lighting is important for local sport
more than $7 million towards over 200 as it provides more opportunities to train
community netball and football projects and play, supporting year round activity
in regional Victoria. and maximum use of facilities.
In addition, the Victorian Government is
developing a range of planning guides to
assist local sporting clubs, organisations
and councils develop sustainable facilities
for communities to enjoy long into the
future.
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James Merlino MP
Minister for Sport, Recreation
and Youth Affairs
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Introduction
The Purpose of the Football and The Football and Netball Lighting Guide
aims to answer some of the key questions
Netball Lighting Guide
facing clubs, organisations and councils
In 2005/2006, the Victorian Government when considering a lighting project at a
created a partnership with the Australian local football and/or netball club, including:
Football League and each committed $2
• What are the key planning matters that
million to the Country Football and Netball
should be considered?
Program. Soon after the program
commenced, as part of the Moving • How to budget.
Forward – Provincial Victoria Statement the
• What are the relevant lighting design
Victorian Government invested a further
standards for training and competition?
$6 million, resulting in a total of $10 million
to assist rural and regional councils. • Pole height.
The Country Football and Netball Program • Types of lights to use.
helps country football and netball clubs to
• Power supply – how to plan?
develop facilities including:
• What are the operating and
• football and netball player and umpire
maintenance issues to consider?
facilities
• What layout design is best?
• shared community, club and social
• Where to get help?
facilities
A range of lighting type projects have been
• multi-use facilities
included in this guide, highlighting the
• lighting, and
illuminance levels of various standards of
• surface improvements. play (training and/or competition) at country
football and netball facilities across Victoria.
The Football and Netball Lighting Guide
has been developed to assist clubs and These projects are:
councils to install effective lighting for
a) Stawell Football and Netball Club –
football and netball facilities.
football training only
b) Learmonth and Cobden Football and
Netball Clubs – football competition
c) North Shore Football and Netball Club –
netball training only (dual court)
d) Apollo Bay Football and Netball Club –
netball competition (dual court
configuration)
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Definitions
For the purpose of this guide, the Vertical Illuminance – The measure of
definitions below apply brightness from a light source, usually
measured in lumens, which is taken
Watt (W) – The watt is a unit for
through a light meter’s sensor at a vertical
measuring electrical power. It defines the
position on a vertical surface.
rate of energy consumption by an electric
device. The power input to a luminaire is Principal Playing Area – All portions of
usually measured in watts. all surfaces which the ball or participants
may touch and be considered in play in
Kilowatt (kW) – The total power
accordance with the rules.
requirements for a series of luminairies –
a lighting system – is usually defined in Glare rating – A numerical value on a
terms of kilowatts. One kilowatt equals scale of 0 to 100, determined in a
1000 watts. specified manner, representing the degree
of glare from a lighting system for given
Illuminance – The total amount of visible
observer positions and viewing directions.
light iluminating a point on a surface from
all directions above the surface. The NOTES:
standard unit for illuminance is Lux (lx).
o Higher values correspond to greater
For a lamp or luminaire it normally refers
glare from the lighting system.
to the total light emitted irrespective of
the directions in which it is distributed. o Observer positions and viewing
directions are given in diagram 1,
Floodlight – A luminaire designed
page 18.
specifically for floodlighting or sports
lighting (usually weatherproof). Colour rendering index – Measure of the
degree to which the colours of objects
Maintained illuminance – The defined
illuminated by a given lamp conform to
level below which the average illuminance
those of the same objects under an ideal
on the reference plane of a lighting system
light source of similar colour appearance.
is not allowed to fall.
Colour Rendering Index (CRI) range from
NOTES: 0-100. The higher the CRI is, the better
the colour rendition appears. An
o It is the minimum illuminance at
inappropriate colour rendition can
which maintenance is to be carried
deceive the eye and supply it with
out.
wrong information.
o The term applies to horizontal or
Uniformity ratios – Describes the
vertical illuminance.
uniformity of light levels across an area.
Light loss factor – The ratio of the This may be expressed as a ratio of
illuminance provided by an installation in minimum to average or it may be
the average condition of dirtiness and with expressed as a ratio of maximum
a lamp of average age expected in service, to minimum level of illumination for
to the initial illuminance provided by the a given area.
same installation.
Source: Standards Australia, Sports
Metal halide lamp – A high intensity Lighting Part 1: General Principles,
discharge lamp with high efficiency and volume 2560.1 - 2007
good colour rendition. These lamps are
used in stadiums, warehouses and
industrial settings.
Horizontal Illuminance – The measure
of brightness from a light source, usually
measured in lumens, which is taken
through a light meter’s sensor at a
horizontal position on a horizontal surface.
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Case Studies – Football
Club | Stawell Football and Netball Club
Level of Play | Training
Pt | Average Lux | 70
• Project Total | $70,000
Year Completed | 2002
Football and netball are big business in At a total cost of $70,000, the lights have
the small town of Stawell. Michael Bailey, allowed the club to be more flexible in their
Recreation Officer at the Northern program catering for both senior and junior
Grampians Shire Council, knows first hand participants. Friday nights are now a
the benefits of having good quality sports popular time to hold Auskick clinics.
facilities available to the local community.
“The lighting and ground upgrades have
As a player in the senior side of the Stawell meant we can increase our membership
Football Netball Club located at Central numbers and by thinking outside of the
Park, Michael believes the upgraded square we are giving people more
facilities have opened up the community opportunities to play, train and get
to new opportunities. involved,” says Michael.
“Both our netball courts and football oval “When we have social events in the club
have recently been upgraded to include rooms, we’ll often turn the court and oval
new playing surfaces and lighting,” says lights on to make it safer for kids playing
Michael. “Apart from providing increased outside and people walking to and from
playing and training opportunities on the the club at night.”
playing surfaces, we have been able to
For more information contact Michael
attract a VFL fixture scheduled for later in
Bailey from Northern Grampians Shire
the year.”
Council on [phone].
This event will hopefully attract new
players and members to the Stawell
Football and Netball Club which can take
pride in having arguably the most famous
football oval in rural Victoria (home of the
Stawell Gift).
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Case Studies – Football
(Stawell Football and Netball Club)
Summary – Lighting design showing the Lux readings
across the oval surface.
48 42 45
65 72 60 57 56 58 53
127 108 92 76 67 68 68 64 51
140 141 110 92 80 73 72 74 75 76 49
132 116 109 94 77 71 74 80 76 78 69
94 81 73 81 73 63 67 69 67 68 58
69 73 66 62 61 58 56 66 56 46 52
57 57 64 63 52 55 51 49 58 52 47
56 59 60 60 60 60 59 60 58 54 49
66 63 68 54 55 65 66 68 68 67 59
82 77 68 61 73 73 74 78 84 85 79
109 91 75 87 87 81 82 89 104 107 101
130 116 91 80 86 82 89 101 122 133 121
126 113 99 79 80 78 84 97 130 137 143
97 89 79 72 67 75 89 108 121
74 55 60 58 64 74 85
52 48 45
Design summary
Level of play Training
Average lux 70
Number of lamps 30
Number of poles 4
Pole height 25 metres
Type of floodlight used 2kW Metal Halide
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Case Studies – Football
Club | Learmonth Football and Netball Club
Level of Play | Club competition
Pt | Average Lux | 153
Project Total | $24,000 (the majority of infrastructure was
•
in place prior to this upgrade)
Year Completed | 2008
The Learmonth FNC lighting project was The lighting upgrade will allow the club to
completed in May 2008 and the club now truly take advantage of the opportunity to
boasts football oval lighting that meets schedule night football matches and cater
Australian Standards suitable to host for both player and spectator requirements
football competition. The upgraded football alike.
lighting at Learmonth Recreation Reserve
Paul will look on proudly as Learmonth do
is the realisation of a vision that Paul Ryan
battle with their opposition under lights for
(club representative) and the club first
many years to come. Paul and others in
identified some 17 years ago.
the club will know that if it wasn’t for the
In 1991 Paul sought advice from lighting foresight shown some 17 years ago, the
and engineering experts as the club was club would not be able to enjoy the
intent on improving lighting at the reserve. benefits that the lighting is providing.
Paul placed an ad in the classifieds of the
For further information contact the Ballarat
Saturday Age newspaper calling for sports
City Council on [phone].
floodlight poles. As luck would have it, he
received a call the next day from a scrap
metal yard in Melbourne that had salvaged Cobden Football and Netball Club
some metal poles from Tullamarine airport.
One club who completed a similar lighting
Paul travelled down to Melbourne to inspect project and has been reaping the benefits
the poles at his next available opportunity. for several years, is the Cobden Football
He knew the poles needed to be tall enough and Netball Club. In October 1996, work
and structurally sound to meet both the began installing four new 30-metre towers
club’s current and future requirements. The with 12 lights attached to each tower.
poles were 30m long and through Paul’s The Cobden Football Club first played
contacts at the University of Ballarat under the new lights in 1997 and in 1998
Metallurgy Department, the structural a further three lights were installed on each
integrity of the poles were tested and tower bringing the level of oval illumination
passed with flying colours. to an average of 175 lux. Now the Reserve
Four 30 metre poles were purchased and caters for night-time junior and senior
subsequently installed with two lamps on football events as well as cricket matches.
each pole. Originally the lighting was only President of the Cobden Recreation
Tips & suitable for club training, as this was all the Reserve, Chris Walsh, says “thanks to the
club could afford at the time. However, with new lighting, we’ve had great success
Suggestions:
the infrastructure in place to accommodate attracting new players to the club,
If using second additional lighting upgrades, the club was particularly at the junior level,” Chris said.
hand poles, ensure able to increase the level of lux as funds
Since installing the new lighting, the
that their structural permitted and in line with specialist advice.
Cobden Football and Netball Club has
integrity is sound
The latest lighting upgrade at the Learmonth doubled its takings at the gate during the
and that their
FNC was completed with funding assistance winter months.
height is sufficient
from the Victorian State Government and
to meet Australian For further information contact Trevor
brought the lighting levels from an average
Standards. Refer Greenberger from Corangamite Shire
120 lux to 153 lux whilst still maintaining
page 18. Council on [phone].
Australian Standards.
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Photos appearing on this page are provided by The Standard, Warrnambool
Case Studies – Football
(Cobden Football and Netball Club)
Summary – Lighting design showing the Lux readings
across the oval surface.
84 65 63
93 95 110 95 94 108 107
127 126 133 153 133 160 164 197 149
149 167 175 185 188 163 222 216 226 182 148
145 165 184 200 186 194 218 223 253 217 154
145 172 199 224 189 193 166 184 194 215 213 173 140
130 147 190 187 182 181 199 195 189 177 177 142 125
120 166 209 213 191 177 184 197 188 177 167 116 73
130 172 233 217 217 171 135 193 189 181 166 114 78
138 205 235 261 223 213 199 197 207 193 146 117 85
176 209 263 262 270 258 214 207 185 193 187 156 111
145 216 253 240 249 239 190 200 210 236 203 161 108
209 225 226 226 232 199 222 252 238 196 162
295 201 184 181 186 178 205 201 196 177 172
196 170 177 176 171 217 217 219 189
92 96 97 108 105 102 103
56 66 60
Design summary
Level of play Club competition
Average lux 175
Number of lamps 48
Number of poles 4
Pole height 30 metres
Type of floodlight used 2kW Metal Halide
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Case Studies – Netball
Club | North Shore Football and Netball Club
Level of Play | Training
Pt | Average Lux | 100
Project Total | $59,200 (lighting component only)
•
Year Completed | 2006
The North Shore Football Netball Club had The facilities are also used by other clubs
been using an old tennis court on which to when the home teams are playing away
train and compete. matches, so the benefits of the new
facilities are extending beyond the local
Thanks to funding of $50,000 through the
area.
Victorian Government’s Country Football
and Netball Program and with assistance “I also hope the new facilities encourage
from the Geelong City Council, the club more members of the community to get
was able to construct two new netball active and involved in the local football
courts with lighting, team shelters and netball club,” said Carolyn. “It’s a great
fencing. way to meet new people and have some
fun.”
The new facilities opened in April 2006 and
have enabled teams and clubs to train in For more information contact Colin Hatton
the evenings, increasing the amount of from Greater Geelong City Council on
playing time available on the courts. [phone].
With around 70 members, the club is a
regular competitor in the Geelong Football
Netball leagues, from under 11’s through
to senior level competition.
“It’s great to see improved facilities for our
local players, who are all so passionate
and committed to their sport and club,”
said Carolyn Keast, President of the netball
club, who is also the C grade netball
coach and an A grade netball player.
“We’re seeing even more people coming
to watch netball matches, which helps
create a great atmosphere and is
encouraging for the players.”
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