Sports Stadia
An EcoShield is engineered planting that absorbs the pressure wave from a bomb blast, so less of it reaches the people on the other side. At a stadium it stands on the approach, between your vehicle mitigation and your search regime, where the match-day crowd queues in the open.
What an EcoShield does at a stadium
Your vehicle mitigation stops something being driven at the ground. Your search regime starts at the gate. Between those two lines several thousand supporters stand still in the open for twenty minutes, which is the densest crowd on the site and the part of it carrying no physical protection.
An EcoShield stands between the queuing lanes on that ground and takes blast energy into dense living material instead of passing it on, which reduces the overpressure reaching the people in the next lane. For a safety officer it puts protection on the one stretch of the approach that currently has none, and it is recorded in the reasonably practicable judgement you have to sign.
Where it goes on a stadium approach
It flanks the queue rather than enclosing it, with deliberate gaps supporters walk through, and it is placed where the crowd is densest, which on most grounds is the last stretch before the turnstiles. Circulation and evacuation routes are inputs to the design rather than casualties of it, and every section is drawn to your ground rather than lifted off a standard layout. The approach still looks like the approach to a ground.
Protection between your bollards and your turnstiles
Your bollards stop a vehicle reaching the ground, and your search operation checks everyone at the turnstiles. The supporters queuing between the two are inside the first line of protection and waiting to reach the second. An EcoShield gives that stretch of the approach physical protection of its own.
It is a planted barrier with an engineered structure inside, designed for the threat of a bomb carried in by a person. It absorbs blast energy, so less of the pressure wave reaches the people behind it. It sits alongside your queuing lanes, so stewarding and search carry on exactly as they do now, and it gives you a physical measure to record in your Martyn's Law documentation.
Supporters see planting. A match day still begins with a walk up to the ground that feels like part of the day out, without a hint that anyone is expecting trouble.
Where it sits alongside what you have
Your bollards stay and keep doing the job they were bought for. Procedures, stewarding and the search regime do not change. Conventional hardening suits the service gate. An EcoShield takes the public approach, which is the part of the perimeter your supporters stand in.
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