Dubai Stadia 'among world's most advanced'.Byline: Dubai Building the world's most advanced stadia within easily-accessed communities is the key to raising awareness Raising awareness is a common phrase advocacy groups use to justify a particular event, brochure or even the entire organization. Raising awareness refers to alerting the general public that a certain issue exists and should be approached the way the group desires. of the role of sport in the Middle East, said one of the region's top sports activists. Abdul Rahman Falaknaz, a founding partner of Dubai Sports City  This article or section is about a planned or proposed stadium.It may contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change dramatically as the construction and/or (DSC (1) (Digital Signal Controller) A microcontroller and DSP combined on the same chip. It adds the interrupt-driven capabilities normally associated with a microcontroller to a DSP, which typically functions as a continuous process. See microcontroller and DSP. ), the first integrated sports city The Sports City is a sporting complex located in the Al Waab district of Doha, Qatar which contains several sporting venues, mostly constructed in preparation for the 2006 Asian Games. , was addressing leading developers, architects, and sporting associations from around the world at the 'Stadium and Venue Design and Development Mena' conference. "Building stadia with the user in mind is fundamental to the approach Dubai Sports City has taken in designing its stadia. Both players and spectators are comprehensively catered for, from lighting and pitch surfaces to seating and parking," he pointed out. The DSC development is built around four key sports facilities See:
It also boasts of a removable ice rink; a 25,000 capacity cricket stadium, expandable to 30,000, with state-of-the-art facilities for players, match officials, VIPs, spectators and the media; and a 5,000 seat field hockey stadium. The cricket stadium is scheduled for completion and opening in early 2009, while construction progresses on the two other stadia and indoor arena. Falaknaz added: "It is the integration of the stadia with the wider residential, commercial, retail, and lifestyle components which bring sport to life within Dubai Sports City. It is the combined effect which produces our differentiating dynamic." In addition to the stadia, Dubai Sports City will feature a series of major sports academy facilities including: the Dubai Sports City Football Academy, the home of Manchester United Soccer Schools, Dubai; a David Lloyd Tennis Academy and a Butch Harmon School of Golf, the first such facility outside the US. The ICC ICC See: International Chamber of Commerce Global Cricket Academy; the WorldHockey Academy, a first of its kind partnership with the International Hockey Federation; a Swimming Academy based around a 50 metre swimming pool with a retractable re·tract v. re·tract·ed, re·tract·ing, re·tracts v.tr. 1. To take back; disavow: refused to retract the statement. 2. boom allowing simultaneous use by multiple users; a Rugby Academy; a high performance gymnasium; and a world-renowned sports medicine sports medicine, branch of medicine concerned with physical fitness and with the treatment and prevention of injuries and other disorders related to sports. Knee, leg, back, and shoulder injuries; stiffness and pain in joints; tendinitis; "tennis elbow"; and and rehabilitation centre are its other key projects. Copyright 2008 www.tradearabia.com Copyright 2009 Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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