WSDG’s senior partner and co-CEO Dirk Noy will join the Danish Sound Cluster webinar on acoustic design for multi-purpose sports arenas, sharing the acoustic consultant’s viewpoint on designing stadiums and arenas as high performance listening environments.
The webinar, titled Acoustic Design for Multi-Purpose Sports Arenas, will take place on 28 April 2026 from 1400 to 15:15 CET, examining how acoustics can be fully integrated into arena design to support sports, concerts, and other large-scale live events.
Presented in English, the session aims to bring together perspectives from architecture, acoustic consultancy, and electro-acoustic systems design.
The session will be hosted and moderated by Jeppe Lindegaard, head of branding, strategy, and events, Danish Sound Cluster, and will feature Klaus Toustrup, partner and owner, C.F. Møller Architects, and Dominika Obwarzanek, senior application engineer, d&b audiotechnik.
The event aims to explore central ideas that are shaping the future of arena design, viewing venues as a canvas instead of a building and offering a range of creative possibilities and curation.
Throughout the session, speakers will address how architectural form influences acoustic behaviour, why acoustic strategy must be embedded from the earliest design stages, and how venues can be developed or transformed to support multiple uses without compromising listening quality, speech intelligibility, or overall audience experience.
Noy will explain WSDG’s perspective focussing on the practical and technical challenges involved in designing large, complex venues by examining speech intelligibility, the balance between sports presentation and concert performance requirements, as well as a deep dive into the acoustic design process from concept through to realisation.
Noy commented: “With sports arenas increasingly expected to serve as flexible, multi-use destinations, it is more important than ever that acoustics are considered from the outset.
“When sound is integrated early in the design process, venues can deliver clarity, impact and a far better experience for audiences, performers and operators alike. We are very pleased to contribute to this conversation with Danish Sound Cluster and our fellow panellists.”