Wi-Skies Designs Lighting of Pedestrian Bridge, Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA

As part of a design-build project, Wi-Skies designed the lighting for a pedestrian bridge to safely allow pedestrians to cross the busy six-lane roadway immediately adjacent to the new Atlanta Falcons stadium (Northside Dr).

The bridge spans a total of almost 1000’ of walkable path, including a 140’ long covered portion as it crosses Northside Drive. All of the pathway is being lit to high pedestrian traffic lighting design criteria, including vertical illuminance design criteria, which is being accomplished with a combination of pedestrian scale LED fixtures for outside of the covered portion and architectural ceiling mounted fixtures inside the covered portion.

The sidewalk areas along the perimeter of the west loop are also being lit to ensure good visibility of fellow pedestrians while not providing a glare concern to the drivers along Northside Dr.

In addition to the pedestrian lighting, Wi-Skies was also responsible for designing the impressive architectural lighting features on, in and around the bridge. Both sides of the bridge have continuous multi-color rope lights which span a total of over 2000’. Additionally, accent lights are provided at crucial areas, such as the bridge decorative columns and outer aluminum skin of the bridge as it crosses Northside Dr. All of the decorative features are centrally controlled for the client to have the ability to change the colors freely, depending on the venue.

While the architectural features of this bridge will mesh well with the new stadium’s architectural features, as it is immediately adjacent to the new stadium which will be aerially viewed often to show off both the stadium’s architectural features, the lighting on the bridge really sets the bridge and its features apart from the stadium.