ASCE to Create Sports Lighting Support Pole Standard

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Three years ago this month, when AB first reported on a rash of sports lighting support pole failures, one source admitted that the industry had long seen little regulation or consistent design guidance. That appears to be changing.

The American Society of Civil Engineers, the nation's oldest engineering society, has announced it is working to create a national consensus standard for the proper specification, design and system support of these structures. "In the United States, current practices related to the specification, fatigue design, installation and ongoing maintenance of athletic field or other area lighting structures are very inconsistent," says Brian Reese of ReliaPole Inspection Services Co., chair of the ASCE Athletic Field Lighting Structures Standard Committee, which was created last fall. "When we started looking at these failures, we surmised that fatigue resulting from wind-induced vibration, as well as a lack of inspection and maintenance programs, are believed to have played critical roles in these failures."

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