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Audience barricade

A purpose-built barrier used to separate, guide, or protect audiences and working areas at an event.

Also known as: crowd barrier, bike rack

Reviewed

Setup

  • Selection and layout account for crowd loads, gates, emergency access, pit staffing, sightlines, cable paths, anchoring, and the event’s crowd-management plan.

Venue contexts

  • Theatre, concerts, festivals, broadcast, and corporate events, as applicable

Signal flow

  • Confirm the source, patch, transport, control, and destination for the system involved.

In practice

Selection and layout account for crowd loads, gates, emergency access, pit staffing, sightlines, cable paths, anchoring, and the event’s crowd-management plan.

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