Air domes have been operating in the modern world for the second century, and engineers and scientists from the United States are the precursors of this technology. Apart from a few episodes, they appeared on the Polish market for good after the collapse of the ancient regime. At the beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century, halls imported from Western Europe were in the lead, before the first sports tarpaulin factories appeared in Poland after 2000. The first 15 years of the new millennium definitely belonged to traditional rope technology, in recent times it is at least a draw with an indication of rope-free technology.
In the private segment, the advantage of “double-shell balloons” over “lines” is particularly visible. While in the first decade of the twenty-first year, pneumatic roofs were popular mainly among tennis enthusiasts, recent years have brought an avalanche of new football facilities equipped with halls based on overpressure generated by the blowing system. Especially large football pitches have become an arena of competition for suppliers of air halls, where the price differences between traditional construction on a fixed structure and innovative pneumatic technology speak particularly in favor of modern tarpaulin roofs. Demountability, mobility, the possibility of leasing, no risk of weather, time and financial proper construction in the traditional model – these are just some of the many advantages of air domes, which are increasingly becoming the subject of subsidies and public procurement.