Stadia, venues & events
Helping designers, operators and owners plan for people
Stadia, venues and events create unique and complex demands for crowd movement and transport planning
Unlike other places and spaces, stadia, venues and events often require thousands of people to arrive over a relatively short period of time and, even more challengingly, the vast majority will leave at the same time.
Independent of the stage of planning or type of project – existing, upgrade or new – it is essential that the impacts of crowd movement and mobility are understood and planned for.
MNSolutions offers extensive experience gained over 30 years collaborating with clients and project teams responsible for the planning and management of 40+ stadia, venues and events.
MNSolutions brings broad and in-depth experience from a wide range of projects, including iconic stadia such as Wembley, Emirates, and Maracanã, smaller local venues, major sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup, Olympic & Paralympic Games and the Ryder Cup, as well as vibrant music festivals.
How MNSolutions can help
- Improving safety & ensuring compliance
- Holistic venue / site assessment and validation with respect to international best practice (e.g. Green Guide) and local spectator safety and evacuation requirements.
- Capacity assessment and optimisation of spectator areas including detailed review of seating bowl configurations.
- Development of solutions to address areas of non-compliance and / or improvement opportunities .
- Maximising user experience
- Development of transport and last-mile strategies, optimising existing infrastructure and minimising delays and crowding.
- Optimisation of queuing and security check layouts.
- Assessment of spectator facilities – food & beverage, toilets etc.
- Identification of potential areas of congestion and conflict, and development of mitigation measures.
- Enhancing efficiency, resilience & flexibility
- Streamlining of the design process by permitting testing of design options prior to development of detailed design.
- Review and optimisation of designs and operational strategies.
- Assessment of different usages and venue configurations, for example ability to host events and shows within the area of play.
- Dynamic crowd flow modelling (microsimulation), permitting efficient scenario testing and realistic 3D visualisations.
- Informing decision making
- Detailed crowd flow modelling (static and dynamic) providing valuable input for design development and operational planning.
- Assessment of event day impact on local transport infrastructure and development of mitigation measures.
- Data-driven analysis and realistic visualisation tools to maximise stakeholder understanding and engagement.
Get in touch to discover how we can support you with your venue or event planning and operations
Project experience
Selected
Wembley Stadium
1999-2007
Maracanã Stadium
2010-2013
Fonte Nova Stadium
2010-2013
Coala Music Festival
2021
Scotiabank Arena
2018
Emirates Stadium
2000-2007
Corinthians Stadium
2010-2013
FIFA Brazil 2014
2009-2014
AVIVA Stadium
2005-2008
Comprehensive list
- Colosso do Tapajós Stadium
- Coala Music Festival
- Ryder Cup Bid Transport Strategies
- Red Bull Bragantino Stadium
- Brasília Wave Park
- GRU Arena
- Scotibank Arena
- FIFA 2022 Qatar World Cup
- Arena 25
- FIFA 2014 Brazil World Cup Operational Planning
- CFONE gymnasium
- Laranjeiras Stadium
- Maracanã Stadium
- Arena Grêmio
- Arena Corinthians
- Arena da Amazônia
- Arena Pernambuco
- Arena Fonte Nova
- Mané Garrincha stadium
- Castelão stadium
- Arena Pantanal
- Arena das Dunas
- 2012 Olympic Stadium
- Everton Stadium
- Aviva Stadium
- White Hart Lane
- Stamford Bridge
- Emirates Stadium
- Wembley National Stadium
- Croke Park Stadium