Shadow assessment for open-air events and infrastructure

Concretisation of the measure

A shadow assessment involves analysing the shadow development during the course of a day at the appropriate time of year for the event in relation to the location and its use. This can be well integrated into the general evaluation and planning phase of events. The longer the event lasts and the sunnier and warmer it can get, the more important it is to find shady and cooler areas and to use them.
Both, heat-sensitive (technical) infrastructure, as well as spectator areas and whereabouts for contributors, should be taken into account. Special attention should be paid to areas that are identified for vulnerable groups of people, i.e. children, the elderly, pregnant women or people with wheelchairs.
Technical infrastructure can be planned in the shade in the early planning phase. The audience area and the contributor area should provide sufficient shady places. If this is not the case, putting up nets can already be a compromise between ventilation, susceptibility to wind and shade.
It should be checked in advance, whether transportable bucket trees and bushes, parasols or heat-sensitive infrastructure, including the construction of various shadow arrangements, can be rented by service providers for open-air events.

Note

Covered parking decks, underground garages or even barns can be useful places for a temporary conversion as a technical or recreational area. If necessary, take this into account in the approval planning.