Architectural, construction and environmental matters of Bahrain's International Formula 1 Circuit

Alnaser, N.W.; Flanagan, Roger; Al-Khalifa, S.E.; Mumtaz, Rizwan; El-Masri, Souheil; Alnaser, W.E.

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2006.01.014

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“…Despite the global appeal of motor racing, the increasing level of international competition to host F1 events and associated sports tourism, there is a dearth of research associated with motor sport venues with just a handful of exceptions (cf. Alnaser et al, 2007;Larsen & Hughes, 2012;Larsen, 2016). While continually evolving, the UK's F1 venue of Silverstone (owned by the British Racing Drivers' Club [BRDC]) currently has over 100 buildings of different sizes, ages and uses, ranging from a University Technical College, to two separate pit facilities, VIP and media centres, clubhouse, showrooms, training centres, conference facilities and supporting infrastructure.…”

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Challenging the Rhetoric of Construction Briefing: Insights from a Formula 1 Sports Venue

Hollely¹,

Larsen²

2019

10th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organization

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Purpose-This research subscribes to the ongoing process school of construction project briefing. Stakeholders underrepresented in the literature are engaged with by focussing on Formula 1 motor racing circuits. Attention is given to the rationales through which stakeholders define construction projects at such venues. The aim of this paper is to understand the realities experienced by stakeholders and how these resonate with the rhetoric of briefing literatures. Design/Methodology/Approach-A single case-based research approach, encouraged for studying informality and emergence, was used to study a heritage oriented construction project at Silverstone Formula 1 Circuit, UK. Data included field-notes, interviews and strategy documents. Stakeholder interests cannot be directly accessed; however, language used when defining projects can be. Analysis focussed on how project rationales drawn directly from data could be grouped into interpretative repertoires. These repertoires are linguistic resources, drawn upon by stakeholders, formed partly from sets of rationales oriented around a common interest. Findings-The priorities given to competing rationales are found to fluctuate through time and depending on audience. Project advocates mobilise these conflicting rationales, from different repertoires, to different audiences simultaneously when strategically defining the heritage project. Discursive definitions emerged during analysis through studying both formal and informal briefing practices. Research Limitations/Implications-Conflict among stakeholders with competing agendas during briefing is widely recognised however references to discursivity are currently scant. Practical Implications-Coping with discursivity during briefing poses significant challenges for construction professionals. Originality/Value-By interpreting strategic briefing as an ongoing and discursive process of project definition, researchers and practitioners can better empathise with realities experienced by stakeholders.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenging the Rhetoric of Construction Briefing: Insights from a Formula 1 Sports Venue

Hollely¹,

Larsen²

2019

10th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organization

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“…the temperature or the occurrence of rain is different from one season to the next, and it can be argued that these uncontrollable variables are not strictly speaking circuit design features. Regarding F1 design features, the FIA provides an updated list of requirements for the F1 circuit drawing (FIA, 2018) even providing an AUTOCAD template; in this regard, Casanova et al (2001) develop the reconstruction of the Barcelona and Suzuka race circuits from racing car characteristics and Alnaser et al (2007) highlight the success of the Bahrain International F1 circuit from its architectural characteristics.…”

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Benchmarking Formula One auto racing circuits: a two stage DEA approach

Gutiérrez

Lozano

2018

Oper Res Int J

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Formula One (F1) World Championship has become one of the most successful sport tournaments over the last decade. Races take place in modern-day closed racing circuits, whose design plays a key role in racing results. This paper proposes a framework for the design efficiency assessment of the more representative racing circuits that hosted Grands Prix during the recent F1 seasons. The proposed approach considers two basic circuit features (namely, circuit length and number of turns) and combines car performance and race safety data. The methodology used is based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The number of inefficient circuits is small, five in the case of variable returns to scale and nine (out of 21) when constant returns to scale are assumed. Potential improvements in terms of speed, fuel consumption and safety targets are computed. For each inefficient circuit its reference set is identified. Also, a second-stage DEA fractional regression analysis is carried out to study the influence of the circuit type (race or street circuit), the track orientation (clockwise or anticlockwise) and the number of redflagged races due to rainfall on the circuits' efficiency. The results indicate that all three variables are significant. The implications of the results for track designers and F1 organizers are also discussed.

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“…BIC has six separate tracks, including a test oval and a drag strip. More information on Architectural and Environmental Aspects of the circuit can be found elsewhere [2,3]. About 28,000 spectators watched the race and the top year for Bahrain's Grand Prix was in 2008, when the race attracted 30,000 fans [4].…”

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Level of Electromagnetic Radiation Emitted from Mobile Phone Base Station during F1 Race in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Alnajjar¹,

Alnaser²,

Alnaser³

2019

Int J Phys Stud Res

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Measuring the power density of the Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR), or Radio frequency radiation, emitted from the mobile base station (transmitting mast) during three days event of Formula 1 Race in 4th, 5th and 6th April 2008 at Bahrain International Circuit, Kingdom of Bahrain, revealed that the exposure to EMR is much lower than the allowable limit set by several professional organization (seven organizations); it represents less than 0.1%. The instantaneous recorded power density at distances 160 m, 230 m and 300 m from the transmitting mast were, on average, 46.5 µW/m 2 , 86.8 µW/m 2 , 395.8 µW/m 2 , respectively. The highest recorded instantons power density during the whole event was 901 µW/m 2 and was on Sunday afternoon of 6 th April 2008, where it was the winner announcing day.The long-term recorded power density during this international event shows lots of variation during this 90 minutes recording in last day (Sunday) of the event which is winner announcement event. This indicates that F1 spectators do substantial number of phone calls during the events where the variation in this day was from 0.607 µW/m 2 to 16.832 µW/m 2 while in Saturday was from 0.313 µW/m 2 to 5.455 µW/m 2 and in Friday was from 0.139 µW/m 2 to 2.356 µW/m 2 .

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Architectural, construction and environmental matters of Bahrain's International Formula 1 Circuit

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Challenging the Rhetoric of Construction Briefing: Insights from a Formula 1 Sports Venue

Challenging the Rhetoric of Construction Briefing: Insights from a Formula 1 Sports Venue

Benchmarking Formula One auto racing circuits: a two stage DEA approach

Level of Electromagnetic Radiation Emitted from Mobile Phone Base Station during F1 Race in the Kingdom of Bahrain

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