With a capacity of 25,000 spectators, the new DACIA ARENA represents an iconic project with a strong component of innovation, evident from the outside observing the original structure covered with a diamond cladding, a real jewel among the sport venues that will represent a model in Europe from many points of view, including the particular attention to the environment in which the structure was conceived and designed and safety standards revolutionaries. It will, in fact, the first venue in Italy without barriers, which will enrich, for the audience, the pleasure of the spectacle of the game field. A perfect mix between a large theater and arena exciting and engaging. 

The main purpose of the project was indeed to create a modern, safe, sustainable sports facility to offer a unique experience to all users that can represent a positive hallmark for the morphology and architecture of the territory.
For the lighting aspect, the Udinese Calcio Company has chosen Fael LUCE to illuminate its own team. The proposed solution is perfectly in line with the objectives of the entire project and able to allow a reduction of the installed power, ensuring an energy requirement for night events lower than at present, maintaining the same levels of illumination. The professional lighting design has ensured compliance to all applicable standards and best practice. The on-site results also ensure high lighting performance, safety and energy efficiency, by providing the correct lighting levels at all game times. 

Mr. Cogo, Fael LUCE’s Lighting Designer, who made up the project lighting design scheme, explains: “During this ambitious project, the biggest obstacle has been represented by the very delicate conditions under which we had operated. We have operated on several fronts, developing the lighting project in three phases, thus ensuring the practicability of the structure during the Serie A National Football Season and, at the same time, the stadium renovation.”

THE TECHNICAL SOLUTION

In total, Fael LUCE delivered 410 LIGHTMASTER ONE, of 2000 and 1000W with a vertical and horizontal average illuminance higher than 2000 lux. A result that goes far beyond the expectations, considering a level of illumination required by the project equal to 1500 Lux and in accordance to UEFA 2016 that states the average vertical illuminance at 1650 Lux. The renovation project included three phases. During the Phase 1, completed in August 2014, few days before the opening of the National Football Season, Fael LUCE provided 214 LIGHTMASTER ONE of 1000 and 2000W placed on the edge of the arc of the main stand, under the cover and on three temporary light towers positioned on the opposite side of the main stand (each one with 24 floodlights, at an installation height of 27 meters). This was a temporary lighting system able to ensure 1500 vertical Lux, as required by UEFA, that allows the Udinese Calcio Company to carry out both home games of the National football season and any international matches.
During the subsequent Phases 2 and 3 Fael LUCE provided the remaining floodlights, while the construction of the new NORTH covered stand, the construction of the SOUTH covered stand and grandstand (opposite the main stand) were finishing.

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Fael LUCE is official supplier of Udinese Calcio Company.