Why Plan Your Retractable Seating Before You Build A Stadium

Choosing Cheap Retractable Seating Could Prove Costly

While it’s totally understandable that stadium builders are always keen to tightly control costs, dismissing premium retractable seating as a non-essential "luxury" option can prove a false economy. Builders should also avoid installing lowest-cost telescopic seating during stadium construction ("Just to get some retractable seating in; to tick a box."). Do that, and time spent in manually removing a tiered stand, or just the first few rows on the lower level, could take up to a fortnight, possibly even longer, believe it or not.

Reinstalling seating rows can take as long as row removal, and additional costs could be incurred through having to employ extra workers, to fulfil all the necessary moving tasks over a 14-day+ (24-hour turnaround) period. During such a trying time, hosting events is going to be difficult, if not impossible. All this is why installing state-of-the-art modern retractable seating in the first place — designed, safely delivered, and expertly installed by a proven seating company — is wholly preferable.

Advanced Planning Could Really Pay Off

At stadium planning stage, builders and architects should take decisive steps to circumvent an ongoing increase in operational costs (related to seating problems), once the venue is functioning. Arena funding managers should make an investment in exceptional seating ONCE, and save a fortune in the long run, while their premises forge a reputation for being a venue "where there's always something exciting going on!"

A failing venue isn't one that sponsors favor, for obvious reasons. If your stadium configuration can't be quickly and easily returned from, say, hosting an athletics championships to one that puts on rugby matches regularly, or other types of sporting calendar fixtures, sponsors will be reluctant to get involved. Would you spend a fortune securing the naming rights on a sports ground that could be shut for a fortnight, several times a year, due to a seemingly unsolvable operational issue?

Of course, the problem can be solved, in one stroke: by replacing the seating system with contemporary tiered retractable seating—with an automated design being your best bet...

'Go Automated!' You Won't Regret It

Successful stadium seating is all about providing a pleasurable spectator event experience, every time, right? Wrong. Of course, paying customers expect a clear sightline, comfort, safety, stability, and with easy location of and access to their seat being a given. But venue managers and staff must get their needs met, too. By opting for automated retractable seating stands (preferably with automatically folding seats) everyone's requirements are catered for. As a builder or architect, by recommending automatically retractable stands, you're helping venue managers to tick boxes, economically and in terms of functionality. Automated retraction is quicker, stadium downtime is minimised, and money can be saved on staffing, with seating system tiers being telescopically drawn in or out, at the mere flick of a switch!