the covair journal

For most sports organisations, the greatest challenge in delivering a covered facility is not engineering or construction. It is approval. Funding applications stall, planning submissions drag on, committees lose confidence, and stakeholder objections surface late in the process.

British sport has long operated under an unspoken constraint: the weather sets the terms. For decades, participation, performance, and revenue have been shaped less by ambition than by rainfall, cold snaps, and waterlogged surfaces.