Achieving Aesthetics Without Compromise
In modern building design, architects and facility owners often face a trade-off: prioritize aesthetics or performance. Traditional construction methods limit material choices, restrict design...
Sports & Recreation Buildings
Discover Ways to Reduce Building Operating Costs
Why Environmental Performance Matters in Building Design Energy efficiency is crucial in construction for long-term operational success. For facilities like industrial, municipal, and athletic...
Indoor Sports Facility Design: A Guide to Best Practices
Architects today face growing pressure to balance performance, efficiency, sustainability, and visual appeal in every athletic facility design. The same is true for indoor sports facility design and...
Why Clubs Are Choosing PVC-Clad Solutions for Indoor Tennis Facilities
If you’re planning an indoor tennis facility, performance matters just as much as protection from the weather. Today’s racquet sports facilities must deliver year-round playability, meet governing...
Innovative Fabric Architecture Solutions for Large Span Sports Venues
At Legacy Building Solutions, we believe sports facilities should do more than serve their purpose—they should inspire, perform, and endure. That's why we design custom-engineered tension fabric...
The Ideal Free Span Multipurpose Building for a College Campus
For colleges large and small, athletics are a vital part of campus life. But beyond sports and recreation, there are so many other activities that require large, unfettered space and/or smaller, more...
Advantages of Fabric Buildings for Public Works
Caring for critical infrastructures such as roads and bridges, equipment, and other resources is a big task for those working in local, state, and national government agencies. Entrusted with...
Pitchin' the Myths in the Fabric Game
We want to go out. We want to run, to dance, to fly. As humans we try to be active, and as people we lean towards interaction and connectedness. Having a place to go to do these things increases the...
Opening the Door to Fabric
If you don't automatically think "fabric structure" when you are contemplating a new building, you have some catching up to do. This article in ReNew Canada summarizes the changes that have taken...
Contractors Talk Fabric
Many contractors we talk to haven’t had a lot of experience with fabric buildings. For some, our tension fabric structure is their first experience with this unique type of project. We asked them if...
Innovative Athletic Facility Design for Modern Sports Spaces
Most people watch the Olympics for the athletes, the events, the spectacle and the heroic stories. At Legacy, because we spend so much time and effort on sports facilities, we watch the Olympics for...
Rigid Frame Structures vs Inflatable Sports Domes
Air-supported fabric structures—also known as sports domes or sports bubbles—are a tempting solution for indoor sports arenas. These structures offer large free-span areas and lower costs compared to...
Building Value into Sports Facilities
In this article in Civil & Structural Engineer Magazine, the authors look at creating cost effective structures with a different approach to the traditional fabric building. The new generation of...
How to Start Your Next Athletic Facility
It’s time to start planning your next athletic facility, and there are some things you should consider. We at Legacy have been building a lot of athletic complexes lately and there are a lot more on...
