more work could be done to mitigate heat inside the venue<\/a>.<\/p>\nSpeaking on Newstalk ZB\u2019s Mike Hosking Breakfast today, Venues \u014ctautahi chief executive Caroline Harvie-Teare said they were \u201cstill in the defects period\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing is the variation between what\u2019s outside and what\u2019s inside is a bit higher than what the modelling was indicating,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cObviously our job as the operator is to put all the mitigations we can in place, but we do need to go back to the modelling and to the engineers and go, why are the variations not in line with what we expected?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harvie-Teare said they would work in partnership with other agencies on the issue. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve obviously got the issue right in front of us,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur role is to work with the council and work with those that designed and built it and just to see if there are any defects or anything that we can do that are material – other than what we\u2019ve got available to us operationally.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christchurch City Council general manager citizens and community, Rupert Bool, said the council was working with Venues \u014ctautahi on options to mitigate the temperature inside the stadium. <\/p>\n
\u201cVenues \u014ctautahi has used operational controls such as fans and extra hydration stations during events held on warmer days,\u201d Bool said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDiscussions will continue about further options to help reduce the heat within the stadium as required\u201d<\/p>\n
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High temperatures on Labour Day saw 4000 bottles of water sold at One New Zealand stadium as temperatures soared. Photo \/ Alyse Wright <\/p>\n
Canterbury player Johnny McNicholl told Newstalk ZB after the game that hydration breaks \u201cdefinitely were needed\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the start, the first half was really hot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey let us know on Saturday, so two days ago, that we were going to have [hydration] breaks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve probably lost about three or four kilos.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking on Newstalk ZB\u2019s Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald on Tuesday, Harvie-Teare said there was \u201cno hiding from the fact it was really warm\u201d \u2013 or that there was more work to be done to mitigate temperatures.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is safe \u2013 but it\u2019s not particularly comfortable in some areas and we\u2019re very, very conscious of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no hiding from the fact that we need to do a bit of work on this.<\/p>\n
More than a dozen fans from US company Big Ass Fans are deployed inside the stadium to help regulate the temperature.<\/p>\n
However, Harvie-Teare reiterated that the fans are not just cooling fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are moving the air around, which does give you a sense of cool when you get a breeze,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Harvie-Teare said there were pitchside fans that could mist, but these couldn\u2019t be used before sport or when the public is attending an event, but could be used beforehand to cool the venue.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey bring the temperature down about four or five degrees.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harvie-Teare said guests should \u201ctreat attending the stadium as you would for any outdoor venue\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the stadium is covered, the roof allows for 90% of the sun\u2019s UV rays through to allow for grass growth,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, if you are sitting in the sun for extended periods, wear a hat and sunglasses, put on sunscreen, and keep hydrated.\u201d<\/p>\n
No formal complaints had been made regarding the heat, Harvie-Teare said. <\/p>\n
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The transparent roof of the venue allows natural light to flood the stadium. Photo \/ Alyse Wright <\/p>\n
It comes after much was made of the heat inside the stadium in Canterbury\u2019s quarter-final against Waikato a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n
At the time, the venue sweltered above 30C as fans flocked to the NPC quarter-final and the women\u2019s Farah Palmer Cup final.<\/p>\n
MetService reported temperatures in the low 20s outside, while parts of the stadium reached 25C under the roof, and areas in direct sun hit 31C<\/a>.<\/p>\nJazlyn Whales is a multimedia journalist based in the Christchurch newsroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MetService recorded temperatures of 24C outside on Sunday, while inside the venue it reached an average of 26C…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[314921,74,4487,50545,3191,315621,10116,3523,9878,111,43,139,69,17711,384,20488,42912,4739,16674,107499,23505,2766,3593,80],"class_list":["post-643779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-325c","tag-after","tag-christchurch","tag-christchurchs","tag-heat","tag-heatrelated","tag-incidents","tag-medical","tag-monday","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parts","tag-people","tag-reached","tag-required","tag-six","tag-stadium","tag-sweltering","tag-treated","tag-treatment","tag-venue","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}