Rondo System Helps Sydney Football Stadium Achieve Design Goals

       Already iconic and steeped in sports history, the 42,500-seat stadium, designed by Cox Architecture, expands the character of a traditional stadium into a stunning design with modern amenities, enhancing the player and fan experience.
        Designed with large crowds in mind and using state-of-the-art technology, this project is a perfect example of how Rondo’s expertise in custom and consistent wall design satisfies crowd pressure as well as furniture, fixtures and equipment (FF&E) and other key points. factors.
       Since a large number of visitors move simultaneously through the dangerous areas of the stadium, interior walls in areas such as corridors and walkways can increase the burden on people.
       Rondo’s design engineers calculated these non-standard loads to create a custom wall design that matches the horizontal movement associated with crowd movement in the National Building Code.
       Hired by builder John Holland, contractor Sydney Plaster built a matching Rondo design with counter steel stanchions mounted on 250mm centers and two rows of double-perforated transom rails for our MAXIjamb stanchions.
       It securely supports the 13mm thick Gyprock Impactchek drywall, allowing heavy loads to be transferred directly from the drywall to the steel stud.
       Our Rondo steel frames and compatible designs are ideal for pressure bearing walls due to their ease of installation and safety.
       In places like the security room, FF&E attachments also increase the load on the walls: heavy 65 kg security equipment is attached to a 5.7 m high wall, protruding 500 mm from the drywall.
       The wind loads would have exceeded the seismic forces in most wall cases, but in this case the additional weight of the FF&E had to be taken into account in the load calculations, greatly increasing the seismic loads above the standard wind load.
       Using a bespoke approach, Rondo engineers designed the security room’s steel retaining walls to withstand higher loads while ensuring seismic requirements and compliance.
       This really highlights the importance of a specific design approach and how the matching factors that are affected by the presence, location and weight of the FF&E on the wall can change the definition of compatible design.