High Pressure Misting Systems for Qatar 2022 World Cup? After winning the bid for the 2022 World Cup, partially by promising to have air conditioning to cool the stadiums, Qatar’s leading architect for the venues announced last week that this would be very impractical and too expensive to do on such a large scale.

This of course is true, but it does not solve the problem of trying to hold the most prestigious soccer event in the middle of an oven. Qatar can easily reach 122 degrees during the time the games will be played in June. This could equate to even hotter temperatures inside an open air stadium, such as they plan to build in Qatar, because of the heat absorption effect of all the concrete and metal. This could lead to a big problem for everyone including the players, the fans and the promoters if something is not done about it.

They are now proposing to use wind towers that suck up hot air to create fan-like air movement inside the stadium. This can certainly help a little but only moving air around could come up very short in relieving the real potential of heat related health and other problems, like no one wanting to attend or play.

I understand that trying to cool such a large outdoor venue with air conditioning alone is not very practical and would be very cost prohibitive. But I also know they could do a much better job of keeping these stadiums and the people in them cool, other them by air movement alone. One way that has been proven effective is with mist cooling. Cloudburst has been using high pressure misting systems and misting fans to successfully cool large venues for years, such as the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, College and NFL Football, the Jamarat Bridge in Saudi Arabia, the Mexico City Subway and other large indoor and outdoor areas. Read More→