Challenge
Since its creation in 1987 as part of preparations for the Barcelona Olympic Games, the high-performance sports center, Centre d’Alt Rendiment (CAR), has been helping some of the world’s best athletes fulfill their potential while pioneering new sports coaching techniques.
CAR was one of the first venues in the world to provide facilities in one location not just for training, but also for related disciplines such as sports science and research, medical treatment, and a complete school onsite for full-time students. Its 215 staff members include coaches, doctors, physiotherapists, and teachers focused on some 400 athletes aged 12 to 18-years (both resident and non-resident), who show sporting promise. The center also accommodates 200 students on coaching education programs.
A founder member of the worldwide Association for Sports Performance Centres, Car commits to innovation and sharing its experience and expertise with other facilities around the globe. In 2008, government funding to refurbish the venue enabled the center to take sports coaching to new levels.
In a new 25,000 m2 building costing €36 million are three separate pools (for swimming, water polo, synchronized swimming, and diving) and facilities for a total of 12 sports including artistic gymnastics, taekwondo, wrestling, judo, trampoline, table tennis, and weightlifting.
“We want athletes and coaches to not only benefit from the most advanced sports environment, but also to share best practice and interact with others around the world,” says Josep Escoda, the CAR chief technology officer. “The idea is to change the way athletes and coaches train, to truly extend the concept of the freedom of sport.”
The challenge was to build the world’s first facility to be designed at the outset to support state-of-the-art performance equipment and collaborative training regimes. CAR needed to create a wireless IP-enabled environment able to support unified communications, entry access, climate control, and lighting and ventilation systems.
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Challenge
Since its creation in 1987 as part of preparations for the Barcelona Olympic Games, the high-performance sports center, Centre d’Alt Rendiment (CAR), has been helping some of the world’s best athletes fulfill their potential while pioneering new sports coaching techniques.
CAR was one of the first venues in the world to provide facilities in one location not just for training, but also for related disciplines such as sports science and research, medical treatment, and a complete school onsite for full-time students. Its 215 staff members include coaches, doctors, physiotherapists, and teachers focused on some 400 athletes aged 12 to 18-years (both resident and non-resident), who show sporting promise. The center also accommodates 200 students on coaching education programs.
A founder member of the worldwide Association for Sports Performance Centres, Car commits to innovation and sharing its experience and expertise with other facilities around the globe. In 2008, government funding to refurbish the venue enabled the center to take sports coaching to new levels.
In a new 25,000 m2 building costing €36 million are three separate pools (for swimming, water polo, synchronized swimming, and diving) and facilities for a total of 12 sports including artistic gymnastics, taekwondo, wrestling, judo, trampoline, table tennis, and weightlifting.
“We want athletes and coaches to not only benefit from the most advanced sports environment, but also to share best practice and interact with others around the world,” says Josep Escoda, the CAR chief technology officer. “The idea is to change the way athletes and coaches train, to truly extend the concept of the freedom of sport.”
The challenge was to build the world’s first facility to be designed at the outset to support state-of-the-art performance equipment and collaborative training regimes. CAR needed to create a wireless IP-enabled environment able to support unified communications, entry access, climate control, and lighting and ventilation systems.
