PANSTADIA & ARENA MANAGEMENT AUTUMN 2013 jewel Eco The city of Nice and its
partners have developed Allianz Riviera as a
multi-functional stage.
A key driver is to achieve sporting and economic environmentally- friendly goals.
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he Allianz Riviera is in the heart of the Var Eco Valley, an urban and
regional development programme (EPA Plaine du Var) declared a project of national interest. The stadium is one of the pillars of the urban development programme for Nice, France’s fi fth largest city, and the surrounding metropolitan area. Designed by Jean-Michel Wilmotte in association with all of VINCI Construction’s subsidiaries, the Allianz Riviera wholeheartedly integrates sustainability, including a wooden lattice structure that is the biggest in the world.
The Allianz Riviera has a multi-purpose infrastructure for all kinds of sporting events and shows, with a seating capacity ranging from 35,000 to 45,000. Its tenant football club is OGC Nice.
Section of stadium bowl. © Wilmotte & Associés SA.
The stadium also has a role in establishing an ‘urban stage’ around which different real estate projects, including leisure and retail are planned to emerge. The National Museum of Sport, to be completed in 2014, is a key year-round attraction.
EN 54-certified audio equipment
Alliance Riviera is the fi rst stadium fully equipped with EN 54-certifi ed products from Electro-Voice, DYNACORD and Bosch.
It is also the fi rst stadium in Europe to be equipped with a sound reinforcement solution consisting entirely of EN 54-certifi ed products.
The installation, which took from March until the beginning of August 2013, was performed by the French system integrator Manganelli.
The wood structure with
membrane skin above and seating bowl below.
“The greatest challenge was the programming of all safety-relevant aspects via the IRIS-Net software platform,” reports Jean Marandet, Product & Service Manager with EVI Audio France. “The support provided by the EMEA headquarters of Bosch Communications Systems in Straubing was of enormous help to us in this task. IRIS-Net is the nerve centre of the installation: without the unbelievable programming possibilities it offers, it would have been impossible to implement such a complex sound reinforcement solution.”
Allianz Riviera sits in the Plaine de Var.
Photos courtesy: Nice Eco Stadium.
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The solution involves dividing up the Allianz Riviera into a total of 26 zones. The loudspeaker systems are fed by one main and four sub-racks linked via a redundant double-ring fi bre-optic network. The patented Variable Load Drive feature of the multi-channel amplifi ers optimizes the output of each amplifi er channel, matching it to the loudspeakers connected at any one time. The coaxial, horn-loaded EVH loudspeakers, which have already proved convincing in numerous stadiums throughout the world, provide even coverage, with high sound pressure levels and excellent intelligibility. The fi nishing touches, acoustically speaking, are provided by the digital signal processing of the Electro-Voice N8000 digital matrices.
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