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Originally Posted by speedog
Surprised I can't find any discussion on the proposed Calgary field house in these forums, certainly a project worth discussing.
Links - the society that spearheaded this and the city of Calgary's associated page.
Certainly our city of a million plus could use one of these and it is quite surprising that smaller cities like Edmonton, Kamloops and Saskatoon already have field houses in place.
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Love it.
While things are somewhat back on the drawing board with the baseball stadium now in-play on the Foothills site, what would the most optimistic times lines be to getting the actual field house up and running? It was listed as phase 5 in the report, without any indication of timeline.
Those trusses are going to be massive!
My input to to the designers would be to maximize facility exits and over design washrooms. The problem with a lot of our current facilities, like the Olympic Oval, is that they were designed in such a sport/event specific way, that it is difficult to use for other purposes. Here you have potentially a 250,000sf clear-span indoor space that could have massive potential for other things, like having 25,000 people for an event. With washrooms, the building codes are okay for events where people need washrooms over a program that lasts a few hours, but programs have specific breaks and/or end at some point, and the designs need to consider the added rush over a smaller period. Plus, back to the even for 25,000 people. Over design now, or have plans for how things can easily be augmented for future.
Personally, I would prioritize the Foothills plan over the Glenmore plan, rather than phasing both and not having the crown in the jewel (main Foothills field house) for 15 years as a result.
BTW - where is Edmonton's field house? Is it the same, IE 400M track + more all indoors in a single space, or is it a mini-me version?