Quote: Remarkable_Rhinos "Cheers MjM. Good read.
I've often pondered this, and there's a few candidates I'm assuming might know the answer...
What's the rules (if any) surrounding designing a stand with the specific intention of amplifying the noise the crowd produces? The can do some pretty clever stuff now a days, I know many amphitheatres are design to avoid the actors needing microphones for example. So you could acoustically design the stand to amplify, and direct the sound towards the pitch. It's the sort of thing I'd imagine the German's attempting!'"
I don't know if there are any rules as such about noise amplification but I do know that when Wembley was being built
rlthis manrl was brought in to address the accoustics and preserve 'atmosphere'. Knowing 'DTJ' for non-work or RL reasons I asked a couple of years ago about what his role had been and, primarily, it seems to have been to optimise the stadium for use as both a concert venue and a football ground, down to the details such as the accoustic impact of the angles of the glass on the hospitality boxes and the nature of the materials used in construction. Alas I fear such considerations may be outside the budget in this instance.
I would have thought sound would be covered by planning regulations one way or another; perhaps that hurdle is another thing the LCC planners will chuck the club's way before this thing gets built. As was mentioned last night, the fact that the stadium has been here since 1890 carries no weight whatsoever if one is trying to establish an "it's always been like that" or indeed perhaps an "it's always been that noisy" type of argument.
