ROOFING PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Top of their game: The Texas Rangers’
new Globe Life Field presents baseball’s
first retractable Texlon ETFE roof installation
Stadium and arena designs have
changed over the last 15 years. No
matter the location around the
world there are commonalities in
overall design results, and they are
the comfort and experience of the individuals
in these stadia.
Each new stadium brings more advanced
technology and more efficiencies than the
last. In addition to the ETFE (ethylene
tetrafluoroethylene) façade, Globe Life Field,
the new home of Major League Baseball’s
Texas Rangers, includes an intelligent shading
Texlon ETFE roof system designed and
supplied by Vector Foiltec.
Large stadia are no longer reserved only
for sporting venues, they are multi-purpose
destinations. Just like other professional
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sports teams, the Texas Rangers will share its
space for special events and musical
concerts. Olympic stadia are transformed into
usable spaces post-Olympics as well. Vector
Foiltec has been an integral part of the
transformation of stadia, both old and new,
with its Texlon ETFE technology.
Best of both worlds
This innovative technology offers a variety
of benefits when included in the design of
stadia. Fully enclosing venues is important in
many different climates to protect spectators
and players from environmental elements,
and in this case the hot humid Texas weather.
ETFE offers enough transparency that
fans feel as though they are in an open air
stadium, while simultaneously controlling
the light transmission. But, at the same time,
a retractable roof, that incorporates ETFE,
can be opened within minutes and offer
spectators a whole new experience.
Different print patterns, foil thicknesses
and the number of ETFE layers, are all unique
to the goals of each stadium project. Each of
those key components affects the light
transmission, U-Values, and Solar Heat Gain
Coefficients, which all affect the overall
comfort for the visitors of the stadium.
Texlon ETFE can also be used for smaller
areas of stadia, such as canopies covering
seating areas, or even as a façade for
aesthetics. Its durable and lightweight
properties enable many design possibilities.
ETFE can span long distances, and the
cushions of a multi-layered system can be
easily designed in various shapes and sizes.
With over 35 years of experience, Vector
Foiltec is a specialist in ETFE technology, and
was responsible for the first stadium ETFE
application in North America at U.S. Bank
Stadium, and the largest ETFE application in
the world at the Beijing Water Cube. Vector
Foiltec provides turn-key design build
services; from initial concept through to
scheme design, climate based optical and
thermal assessment, and foil and structural
engineering analysis. Vector Foiltec
constantly brings more innovations to the
industry and holds the world’s only
independently verified environmental
product declaration for this technology. n
The use of Texlon ETFE offers
benefits of light transmission
and flexible design for stadium
roofing and façades
The facts:
Globe Life Field Texlon ETFE façade and
roof installation
• ETFE - 124,000ft2
• Retractable roof
• East facade
• Retractable upper east facade
• West concourse
• Cushions: Three layers
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