AGC Sports Lighting - AGC Offer Projects and Services to Meet Your Needs

Whether your new construction LED upgrade, field, or sports complex, AGC offers projects and services to meet your needs.

LED Upgrade

AGC Sports Lighting’s LED upgrade solution will dramatically improve your light levels, virtually eliminating glare/spill and system maintenance, all while drastically reducing energy costs.

New Construction

AGC Sports Lighting is an industry leader in new construction LED lighting systems. Our new construction system is covered with our state-of-the-art LED fixtures and controllers, and expert installation instruction.

New Project from to finish construction

Nowadays, sports can be defined as recreational time spent on various individual and collective activities that involve people of all ages, economic statuses, and social classes. But sport is also considered to be a competitive event that attracts thousands of people, is filmed for television, and broadcast to fans all over the world: it's a mass public event with the participation of professional athletes involving commercial interests of enormous size and scope through advertising, sponsorship, and various promotions.

 1. Evening or Night-Time Sporting Activities

The practice of cultivating one or more sports is widespread among young people but also among middle-aged and older people. For many of these people, the main problem is how to reconcile, within the arc of a day, their working hours with the time they have available to dedicate to their sporting passion. Many athletes, or aspiring athletes, use sports venues in the evening or during the hours of the night. Hence the need for artificial lighting.

In sports/entertainment, artificial lighting makes the intensive use of sports facilities possible. By scheduling competitive events during the evening and at night, it is possible to multiply the events and improve the quality of the offering. In this context, it is obvious that the functions to be performed by artificial lighting are complex. Illumination is required, primarily, in order to allow athletes to physically perform at their best ability, but also so that the public is assured clear and comfortable viewing, and finally, for television and film shoots have to record bright scenes at the level of quality required by the filming equipment.

 2. The Lighting Parameters to Be Assessed

In view of this complexity, it is necessary to draw up a specific project to address the lighting requirements of sports facilities and complexes. The first priority is to offer good viewing for various subjects, namely:

• athletes, players, participators;
• The referees together with the judges and those responsible for monitoring competitions or the correctness of athletic performances;
• The audience is present at an event and the vast spectator audience follows via the medium of television.
• In summary, the main evaluation parameters contemplated in   “Light and lighting – Lighting of sports installations”,  (for football) are:
• horizontal illuminance Eh (minimums, maximums, averages);
• vertical illuminance Ev (minimums, maximums, averages);
• point uniformity of horizontal and vertical illuminance U1 = Emin / Emax;
• general uniformity of horizontal and vertical illuminance U2 = Emin / Emed;
• glare rating UGR;
• color temperature TK;
• color rendering index Ra;

The controlling of illuminance, illuminance uniformity, and glare rating ensures visibility and visual comfort. Colorimetric parameters, such as color temperature and the color rendering index are especially important for television broadcasting.

The recommendations specify the illuminance values based on the size of the sports facility. For football matches, lux values range from 250 to 800 lux with a uniformity between 0.5 and 0.7. For television broadcasts, values of 1000–1500 lux are required. Illuminance uniformity is particularly important. With illuminance uniformity of more than 0.5 areas of differing brightness should be avoided. Uniform light distribution allows the audience to follow the athletes’ performances throughout the playing field. Players must reach and maintain a high degree of concentration throughout the competition with a perfect view of the entire pitch.

In conclusion, given the numerous evaluation parameters, the lighting design for sporting facilities requires an enormous amount of effort, as well as a vast number of photometric calculations. With this in mind, we-AGC Lighting designer team of about 10 people recommend the use of calculation and rendering software to support the design process.

Any questions or ideas about sports lighting, do not hesitate to ask us.