Stadium lighting towers

Drawing of a lattice tower with a floodlight head and a guarded platform, lighting a soccer field at night

Keep the light where it was aimed

Every floodlight on a sports field is aimed at a precise point on the pitch. The lighting designer sets that point with angles of a few degrees, and the tower has to hold it in the wind for years. If the head moves, the light drifts from where it was calculated and the field ends up uneven. That's why, in these structures, strength is often not what governs the design. Stiffness is.

At Indumor we fabricate lattice towers and poles to light stadiums, club fields, truck yards and industrial or mining sites. We work from the lighting design's fixture schedule (number of floodlights, weight, wind area and mounting height), design the structure and deliver it in galvanized sections that bolt together on site.

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Lattice tower or pole

For stadiums and big heights, the lattice tower wins: for the same height it weighs less and deflects less at the top. At a club field or an industrial site, a pole does the job with less room and less upkeep. For small courts such as padel, tennis or five-a-side, we also make shorter poles in series.

What makes a good tower

A stiff head

Head displacement under service wind is limited, so the floodlights keep pointing where they were aimed.

A head frame to suit

The floodlight frame is designed for the number, weight and wind area of the fixtures, with room for electrical panels and a maintenance platform with guardrails.

Safe access

A fixed ladder with a cage or a ladder safety system. Argentina's Decree 351/79 requires a cage from 2.25 m and rest platforms every 9 m on fixed ladders.

Base and sections

Anchor rods set with a template in the foundation, and galvanized sections that fit the kettle and a truck. On site, a crane and bolts.

The lighting design (how many floodlights, what power, and where they point) belongs to the electrical designer or the fixture manufacturer; our part is a structure that holds it. If the project would rather avoid work at height, a pole with a lowering ring is an option: the floodlight ring comes down to the ground on a winch for maintenance. In that case the structure is designed around that system from the start.

What we need to quote them

  • The fixture schedule: number, weight, dimensions and wind area of the floodlights, or the model.
  • Mounting height and number of towers.
  • Location, to take the design wind from CIRSOC 102.
  • Access: caged ladder, ladder safety system or lowering ring.
  • Geotechnical report, if you have one.
  • Finish: hot-dip galvanized or painted.

Further reading

Frequently asked questions

No. The number of floodlights, their power and their aiming angles are set by the electrical designer or the fixture manufacturer. With that schedule, we design and fabricate the structure.
The lighting design sets it, based on the size of the field and the light level required. Stadium towers usually go past 30 m (about 100 ft); a club field gets by with much shorter poles.
By a fixed ladder with a cage or a ladder safety system, with rest platforms, up to a platform with guardrails at the head. On poles with a lowering ring, the floodlights come down to the ground instead.
Yes. If the floodlights are replaced or equipment is added (cameras, antennas, more fixtures), the tower should be checked under the new load. We survey it, run the numbers and fabricate whatever reinforcement it needs.
Because a tower gets painted once, and after that nobody wants to climb up and repaint it. Hot-dip galvanizing covers the whole part, inside and out, and holds up outdoors for decades.

Send us the fixture schedule and the height, and we'll quote the towers with their design.

Lattice towers or poles, galvanized, in bolted sections and with their ladder. Or email [email protected].