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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 2 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. ja James Merlino MP Minister for Sport, Recreation and Youth Affairs 3 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) 4 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. 5 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 (03) 5358 8700. 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). 6 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 7 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 (03) 5320 5500. 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 (03) 5593 7100. Australian Standards. 8 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 9 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. (03) 5227 0270. 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.” 10

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