Designing better restrooms for sports facilities

Next Generation Sports Venues are fantastic facilities, with retractable roofs, dazzling video screens and fun, fan-friendly amenities. They’re also cleaner, sleeker, and more sustainable than places built just a decade or two ago.

Even the restrooms in these stadiums and arenas are modern and cutting-edge and Idral offers the perfect solutions.

Idral’s products and experience help make bathrooms in sports and entertainment venues more hygienic, more water-efficient, easier to maintain and more elegant.

Stadiums and arenas, in fact, in addition to sporting events, often host concerts and events out of season: such a volume of visitors makes it imperative to build bathrooms with an efficient and user-friendly design.

Tips to make the bathrooms in sports facilities easy to use:

  • Design restrooms so that there is one-way in and one-way traffic flow.

 

  • Minimize the spread of germs by using flow meters, soap dispensers, faucets and hand dryers with touchless activation. Idral’s 4ALL line combines a tap, soap dispenser and hand towel in a single product to give sports facility bathrooms a touch of style, savings and, last but not least, a dry floor!

 

  • Consider that on average the use of the bathroom by a female user is 180 seconds, against 84 seconds for a male user: for this reason, sports facilities must have female bathrooms in a 2:1 ratio to avoid queues and crowds .

 

  • Using low-consumption taps that do not require user intervention to close them (electronic and timed taps) since that allows you to save hundreds of thousands of liters of water a year.

Each project presents unique and specific challenges, but, in these environments, hygiene is a key priority; as are energy efficiency and durability: accidental damage or even vandalism can be a critical issue in many projects.

Francesca Piola

Export Coordinator

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