SPORTS AND RECREATION SPECIALISTS

Sports and recreation specialists utilize Virtualwind to analyze and visualize:

•   Wind effects on trajectories of baseballs in stadiums or golf balls on golf courses

•   Microclimate effects on humans in the development of master plans or site plans for stadiums, outdoor sports complexes (baseball fields, soccer pitches, football fields, and others), golf courses, outdoor recreation facilities, etc.

•   Wind and environmental effects on plants and trees and other vegetation used in landscaping sports and recreation venues.

•   Wind effects on the spraying of water for irrigation and other airborne particulates, including herbicides and pesticides.

•   Micro-climate environments in sports complexes to determine optimal locations for plants, or to analyze requirements for wind-blocks to protect vegetation.

Virtualwind enables sports and recreation specialists to:

•   Easily, quickly and inexpensively undertake master planning to establish a clear framework for the later detailed design of the development area or overall site. Virtualwind enables sports and recreation specialists to create models of their new venue and incorporate those models into larger models of complex urban or rural environments with existing geometries of buildings and geographical features.

•   Conduct their own internal low-cost analyses of localized (micro-climate) wind speed on several early stage design concepts in order to predict impacts, comfort and risk as they relate to flight of balls (baseballs, golf balls, et.), humans, and plants used in landscaping.

•   Rectify unacceptable wind patterns early in the design phase before incurring expensive and time-consuming later stage design changes.

•   Engage customers earlier, and more often, in the design process. Since simulation models can be created quickly and inexpensively, this enables a seamless continuity of opportunities to engage with customers from conceptual design through final plans. Each of these engagement events represents opportunities for incremental revenue.

•   Win more competitions and business by compellingly and visually demonstrating to the client that their design incorporates best practices related to wind effects, comfort, safety and risk.

•   Increase their competitive advantage and status by incorporating advanced technology to show their clients that they are versatile and able to consider the microclimate aspects of the design.

•   Accelerate the planning approval process by clearly demonstrating to regulators and city planners how their design incorporates human wind comfort, protection of vegetation and other environmental design considerations.