Month: January 2022


Nate Whitman to craft ASM Global biz strategy

ASM Global names Chief Strategy Officer

ASM Global, the world’s leading producer of entertainment experiences, venue management and event strategy, has named Nate Whitman, Chief Strategy Officer, to expand upon the company’s recent pace of major acquisitions and strategic partnerships begun at the height of the pandemic and rapidly... » Read more


Safe standing pilot begins at Old Trafford

Safe standing re-introduced in the UK

The professional football club Manchester United F.C. (UK) fans were among the first football supporters to be legally allowed to stand while watching a Premier League game, when the club’s safe standing trial got underway during the fixture against its peer team Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. on... » Read more


ME Engineers inside look into Climate Pledge Arena

ME Engineers at Coliseum US

The 17,459-capacity Climate Pledge Arena is a multipurpose arena in the Northwest United States in Seattle. It is located north of downtown in the 74-acre entertainment complex known as Seattle Center, the site of the 1962 World’s Fair. The renovated building opened on October 19th, 2021.Full... » Read more


UK Event Research Programme findings

UK sporting and live music events research findings on the spread of covid-19

In a world plagued by COVID-19 and its variants Delta and Omicron, with Omicron devastating the world again, holding events safely has become the topmost priority of the events industry. In February 2021, the Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, asked the Events Research Programme (ERP)... » Read more


The ‘smart keys’ of Finland’s Nokia Arena

Mobile devices acting as key at Nokia Arena

Europe’s newest multipurpose arena, Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland, which went on stream on December 3rd, 2021, includes state-of-the-art access management. Security and access control systems are integrated with arena staff shifts and logistics. Mobile devices and wristbands are used as keys.... » Read more


Basketball arena to come up in Texas City

US Waco Baylor University new arena

The Waco City Council (Texas, US) signed off on December 21st a deal with Baylor University intended to set up $700 million in downtown-area riverfront development with Baylor’s $185 million basketball arena as a centerpiece. The ‘Waco Tribune-Herald’ stated that the City Council approved the... » Read more


Euro 2020 final: Wembley ‘moment of shame’

Final findings released about EURO 2020 final at Wembley

An independent Review of events surrounding the UEFA Euro 2020 Final ‘Euro Sunday’ at Wembley Stadium on July 11th, 2020 was carried out by Baroness Casey of Blackstock DBE CB, a British Government official working in social welfare. It was indeed a ‘shame moment’ not only for the whole of... » Read more


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