• Nike and RUFproject construct green football training center in South Africa

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    South Africa now proudly plays home to a super green football training center. Building collaboration with a Canadian firm, RUFproject and the Nike Global Football Brand Design, this training center known as the Soweta Football Training Centre took six months to build, complete with multiple fields, training and locker rooms, offices, a gym, a kitchen, all in a wooden encased building with louvers and sandstone. With green features like sun shading, natural ventilation, and reduced energy loads, the double-walled air cavity covered with locally-sourced sandstone acts as a rain screen while a locally-sourced South African timber louver structure suspended from the steel acts as a sun screen on the east, north and west facades keeping out solar heat gain.


    South African soccer goes green with the Soweta Football Training Centre! A great job done indeed by Nike and the RUFproject.
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    Posted in Topics:Architecture, Tags: , on January 18, 2011