Energy Efficient Stadium Design Criteria

Energy efficient buildings are evaluated by different building certification systems. These systems classify the building types and evaluation criteria into different categories. These categories can be sorted as residential buildings, commercial buildings, interior designs, new construction buildings, renovated buildings and etc. There may be some insufficient classifications for some situations. Evaluation of the stadium buildings are examples of these situations. Football stadiums, which are widely constructed around the world, are jointly designed and implemented within the scope of FIFA criteria. This situation enables the stadium buildings to be produced in a common quality. However, when it comes to energy efficient stadium construction, current building certification systems are applied. In this study, “Energy Efficient Stadium Design Criteria” are developed with the hypothesis of the lack of the current building certification systems on the evaluation of the energy efficient stadium designs. Green building certification systems and FIFA criteria are used to develop these criteria. With the developed criteria, LEED certified Castelao Stadium, Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium and Fonte Nova Stadium are evaluated. Besides, Green Point Stadium, Moses Mobhida Stadium and Peter Mokhaba Stadium that are found balanced within the scope of the SBAT certification system are evaluated with the developed criteria. As a result, it is seen that LEED and SBAT systems are insufficient to evaluate the energy efficiency of stadium buildings.