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Articles in issue 2010 - 5

Planning, Designing, Building

Design Your Own & Win @ www.matta.co.uk

One of the UK’s leading suppliers of playground safety surfacing, Matta Products has launched an exciting new website to showcase its unique range of superior safety surfaces.

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Planning, Designing, Building

Super bright and vertical - Groundbreaking innovations at the 2010 GaLaBau trade fair

As usual, visitors from the horticulture and landscape industry coming to Krinner’s stand at the 2010 GaLaBau trade fair in Nuremberg were not to be disappointed as Krinner showcased numerous innovations.

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Planning, Designing, Building

Soonwald Municipality of Spabrücken wins Kompan playground equipment

This year marks the 40th anniversary of playground equipment manufacturer Kompan. The company took this opportunity to start looking for the oldest piece of Kompan playground equipment still in use in Germany and to replace it with some new playground equipment.

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Planning, Designing, Building

Comprehensive range of top-quality timber bridges

Pieper Holz has established itself and has become renowned for its bridge constructions even outside of Sauerland.

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Planning, Designing, Building

Hags goes for the Jeeves ERP system

The Swedish company Hags Aneby AB, one of the largest manufacturers of playground equipment as well as park and street furniture in the world, is switching to the fully scaleable and global complete ERP solution Jeeves Universal.

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Planning, Designing, Building

playfit present new outdoor fitness equipment at the 2010 GaLaBau in Nuremberg

Adequate physical and mental exercise, positive thinking as well as a healthy, balanced diet help promote and maintain independence, vitality and joie de vivre among the elderly.

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Planning, Designing, Building

Zentro

With its new design and fantastic play value, this new rotating play equipment is sure to capture children’s attention.

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Planning, Designing, Building

eibe support “Eight 17-year-old young people raise cash for Ben Parkinson.”

They cycled from Fort George, Inverness in the north of Scotland to Fort Blockhouse, Gosport, in southern England, starting on 26th July and finishing on the 7th of August 2010.

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Planning, Designing, Building

Botswana school discovers the benefit of Snug

A school in South Africa is discovering the benefits of Snug, Sutcliffe Play’s dynamic playground equipment. Thornhill Primary School, Botswana is the latest school to invest in the revolutionary kit that is proving successful in schools across the world.

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Planning, Designing, Building

National Play Day

Wicksteed Playscapes was represented at two very different Play Day events this year where their play and sport equipment was put to particularly significant use during a nationwide celebration of children’s outdoor play.

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Planning, Designing, Building

Healthy exercise – from couch to the great outdoors!

Join us as we celebrate our company anniversary and true to our motto “WE INVITE MANKIND OUTDOORS“, we would like to invite all of you to have a good time outdoors – with our products:

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Planning, Designing, Building

Obra receives the Golden Vöckla Award

On Monday 6th September 2010, this year’s ”Vöckla Awards“ were presented in the new VArena shopping centre in Vöcklabruck.

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Playground Safety

Creative play ideas with Euroflex EPDM and Design Slabs

Childhood as an important stage in human development does not evolve by itself but needs to be sensibly shaped by parents, teachers and the social milieu.

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Playground Safety

New BSW multi-purpose sports flooring brings cost benefits

To ensure plenty of active fun on multi-purpose game courts, BSW, the Bad-Berleburg-based manufacturer of sports and leisure flooring, has developed a surface whose ease of installation brings considerable cost savings: Regupol kombi play.

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Coverstory

Municipalities sound alarm - companies rally round

Local authorities in Germany frequently lack the resources to construct new playgrounds and to maintain those already in existence. Commercial enterprises have decided that they have a duty to provide help.

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Municipalities and Associations

Managing risks – shaping developments: How associations become fit for the future

Andreas Schriefers, lawyer, anwaltsKONTOR Schriefers Rechtsanwälte. The current economic crisis, which has been extensively covered by the media, leads to a reassessment of structures and forms of action everywhere.

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Sports & Leisure Facilities

A clear win

Polytan football turf celebrated its entry into the French first league with a flourish and a clear decision in its favour from the top league clubs FC Lorient and AS Nancy.

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Sports & Leisure Facilities

The TURF and GRASS EXPO 2010

The TURF and GRASS EXPO 2010: 8. - 9. Dezember 2010, Amsterdam

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Sports & Leisure Facilities

The redevelopment of the Jakob Frey Stadium in Heidesheim

The specialist firm Gebr. Becker Sportanlagen GmbH has been commissioned to refurbish the Jakob Frey Stadium in Heidesheim. This is a pilot project in which a public-private partnership (PPP) concept is being employed, an alternative to the standard public tender procedure with which the involved parties are more familiar.

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Playground Report

More playing space for playing children

More happy, bright children’s eyes – that is the main wish of the initiative spielKind (literally ‘playing children’), which is committed to its campaign for more playing space.

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Playground Report

Lamp posts and paving stones to fight obesity

With discovery tours of real life, the German insurance company DAK and the Deutscher Turner-Bund (German Gymnastics Association) are counteracting a lack of physical exercise and obesity among children.

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Playground Report

First place: the “Sunshine” playground

The outstanding winner of the “Green playgrounds“ competition sponsored by the NürnbergMesse GmBH, the BSFH and BGL federal associations and the trade magazine Playground@Landscape.

Playground Report

The people factor exists in medium-sized businesses

The “Great Prize for Medium-Sized Businesses 2010” goes to companies from Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hessen and Thuringia.

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Playground Report

Savings bank play arena: green venue for families

Play facilities at the State Horticultural Show in Villingen-Schwenningen.

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Playground Report

The mountain calls in a swimming pool

Since March 27, 2010 the Hardtbergbad swimming pool has a further attraction - the first climbing forest in Germany to be located at the local baths.

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Fitness & Urban Sports

A healthy mind in a healthy body

The sport centre of the Technical University in Braunschweig has realised the first university outdoor fitness park in Germany.

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Planning, Designing, Building

On route to a better school

Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth, Executive Committee President of buddY E.V., talks about the future of schools in Germany and the role of the Buddy Project.

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Planning, Designing, Building

More focus on early childhood education in Germany

The early childhood education state monitor internet portal Ländermonitor Frühkindliche Bildungssysteme 2010 reports widely differing rates of investment by individual Germany states - more and more 1- and 2-year-olds are attending day care centres

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Planning, Designing, Building

Financial emergency: German local authorities cut back on services and increase taxes

Survey among German local authorities

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Events

Zukunft Kommune Trade Fair 2011 has a new location

The Zukunft Kommune Trade Fair is coming to North Rhine-Westphalia: The 8th trade fair for community solutions, services & procurement is opening up its doors on 12 and 13 April, 2011 with its events running in parallel, public11, PUBLIC ENERGY and Public IT. All are to be held at the Messe Düsseldorf trade hall.

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Events

IOG SALTEX 2010 - Exhibitors commit to 2011 event

With nearly 7,000 visitors over the first two days of IOG SALTEX 2010, and a steady flow of serious buyers, the organisers were enjoying their highest ever level of re-bookings for next year’s event as well as numerous requests for extended stand space.

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Planning, Designing, Building

BAT’s Foundation for Future Studies publishes new survey of patterns of recreational behaviour in Germany

Everyday life in difficult times: more leisure time spent at home; TV, family and indolence dominate.

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Planning, Designing, Building

Author collective: more colour for ‘white areas’

Munich 2009: Brochure published by the ‘Spielraumkommission der LH München’, 56 pages

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Planning, Designing, Building

Second round of competition with "Mission Olympic"

Five active NRW towns want to reach the final

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Events

More than 60,000 trade visitors at GaLaBau 2010

The 4-day GaLaBau exhibition with its PLAYGROUND and Deutsche Golfplatztage segments finished in Nürnberg on Saturday, 18September 2010, with more than 60,000 trade visitors once again.