through temporary solutions

SUSTAINABILITY IN EVENT CONSTRUCTION THROUGH TEMPORARY SOLUTIONS

THREE BEST PRACTICE EXAMPLES

Author Marike van der Ben, NUSSLI Group, CH – 8536 Hüttwilen, www.nussli.com Photos Swiss Images (ESAF Pratteln), Peter Meisel (Munich), Napur Architects (Rendering Budapest)

The demands on events are becoming ever higher, the locations ever more extraordinary, the dimensions ever larger. At the same time, there is a growing desire for sustainability, for forward-looking planning and conservation of resources. Three examples show how event builder NUSSLI plans and implements top-class events sustainably with a great deal of know-how and the right materials.

Temporary solutions play an important role here. They open up completely new location options, are particularly flexible, and are downright exemplary in terms of sustainability. This is because NUSSLI‘s own system material is used for temporary structures, which is completely dismantled after an event and reused for other projects.

European Championships 2022 in Munich: How major events reach spectators in the city In August, Munich was transformed into a huge sports stadium. The European Championships became a big celebration. An impressive beach volleyball and climbing arena was temporarily built on Königsplatz – a place where architecture, art and culture are usually the main attractions. The exhibition hall was temporarily converted for the track cycling competitions, as was Odeonsplatz for the road cycling races outside. For all other sports, existing sports venues were used and complemented with temporary solutions. For a total of eight venues, event specialist NUSSLI planned and built grandstands, LED walls, camera and commentator platforms, stairs and many other special structures. It is only thanks to the possibilities offered by NUSSLI‘s temporary construction that such complex infrastructures can be realized in a metropolitan, partly historic, and inhabited setting – on a very large scale, economically and sustainably. In the middle of the city, the European Championships reached many new spectators.

Temporary and gigantic: The festival arena for the Swiss Federal Wrestling and Alpine Festival Larger than the largest soccer stadium in Switzerland and still too small for the ticket demand was the festival arena that NUSSLI was allowed to design and build for this year‘s Swiss Federal Wrestling and Alpine Festival (ESAF) in Pratteln near Basel. A temporary arena was built for 50,900 spectators and two days of sports and festivities. Temporary because the

major national event only takes place every three years and at a different location each time.

Temporary construction offers clear advantages here. NUSSLI has been involved in the ESAF as a service provider since 1961 and works with its own construction elements that can be reused several times, which makes it possible to respond flexibly to the conditions on site during construction.

Budapest: Stadium construction as part of the urban development project As part of a modern urban development vision, the National Athletics Centre is being built in Budapest for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 2023. The new stadium is being realized on a former industrial site, which will be sustainably redeveloped through construction and developed into an attractive public sports and recreation park after the World Championships.

NUSSLI is helping with sustainable and temporary structures that make it possible to set up the new athletics stadium flexibly and multifunctionally. While there is permanent seating for 15,000 spectators, an additional temporary upper tier provides another 25,000 seats, which will be completely dismantled after the World Championships.

The intelligent permanent stadium can also be temporarily expanded again in the future for other major events. Planned with foresight, the deconstruction and expansion process can be handled economically and budget-friendly at any time.