Articles in issue 2012 - 5

Planning, Designing, Building

Play Reaches New Heights at Chatsworth

Chatsworth have recently enhanced their popular adventure playground in their farmyard with the addition of a Climbing Forest from Timberplay.

Planning, Designing, Building

Sandmaster cleans even your synthetic surface

Synthetic surfaces require regular and intensive care for the daily wear and tear as well various weather conditions lead to a build-up of dirt particles and other impurities in the open porous structure of synthetic surfaces.

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Stainless steel fitness equipment

The activity trail developed and designed by Sergi Fernández Herrera promotes mobility and makes exercise fun.

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Timber or steel?

Playground equipment purchasers are spoilt for choice:

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Finland’s President Sauli Niinistö opened Lappset’s new factory in Estonia

Lappset Group Ltd has expanded its international business operations by opening a factory of its own for metal components and metal product ranges in Estonia, just outside its capital, Tallinn.

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Sutcliffe Play launches new inclusive ballcourt

Play experts Sutcliffe Play is furthering its specialism in inclusive play with the development of a new inclusive ballcourt.

Planning, Designing, Building

Cutting edge design from Playdale

Playdale have been at the forefront of playground design and manufacturing for over 30 years and continually strive to create innovative products with cutting-edge design.

Events

GaLaBau is still the sector’s leading trade fair – but … !?

But: are there signs that GaLaBau’s importance to the German market is on the wane? Why are some of the top manufacturers staying away? How can the site be further improved?

Playground Report

Hamburg society builds playgrounds in crisis areas

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the French oceanographer, once said that “playing is one activity that can’t be taken seriously enough.” The work of the voluntary society alma terra is based upon the same principles. The name of the society translates as ‘bountiful earth’.

Coverstory

Child’s play makes you clever

They need to be exercise spaces that provide for free and unlimited physical activities and a wide range of play and game options. This is the conclusion of Prof. Dr. Renate Zimmer, who claims that “child’s play makes you clever”.

Planning, Designing, Building

Bernbruch is pleased about a new “Climbing Trail” playground designed by Ziegler Playgrounds A – Z

The kids of the “Parthenzwerge” day-care centre enthusiastically stormed the new attraction of the idyllic village Grimma.

Planning, Designing, Building

DIN Handbook 105 / Playground and recreational equipment

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Better than its reputation – A plea for dirt

These dirt pitches should be treated with more acceptance - not least in the face of increasingly limited community finances – as they have a rightful place in existence and under given circumstances, are a sensible alternative.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Environmentally friendly recycling of artificial turf

The technical advantages of the artificial turf, high usability and playability in all weather conditions, are now recognized by all football associations.
Meanwhile international qualifications will be held on artificial sports fields.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

A Mini-Playing Field for Poessneck

"The 1000 mini pitches are also an expression of thanks to the people for a wonderful football championships final held in Germany - and what could be better than to pass on these thanks to the children who can play on these pitches" stated Dr Theo Zwanziger.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

The ball is in play on the mini playing fields

This was motivation for the German football association (Deutschen Fußball-Bundes, DFB) to initiate construction of 1000 mini playing fields throughout Germany.

Planning, Designing, Building

The Step Bench: sitting comfort and playful exercise

The Step Bench has three different seat heights, which can be used depending on the body height and the individually desired seating comfort.

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Leisure and Recreation Trade Fair is held for the second time in the halls of the Venray Exhibition Centre

It seems as if the second Leisure and Recreation Trade Fair, which will be held on 5th, 6th and 7th February 2013, is still a long way off. Far from it! Its organization is well under way and exhibitors have already signed up for participation in the trade fair.

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Safety in children’s playgrounds

With these documents, engineer D. Hecking wants to give people dealing with playground safety issues a solid understanding of relevant regulations or bring them to mind: “Safe children’s playgrounds – a guide”.In addition, there is the handbook “Exercises and questions concerning playground equipment and playgrounds.

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Play space – in Düsseldorf (A Book)

Children need play areas to develop and test their physical limits, they need space to play, to let off steam, to explore, try and push their limits, but also to retreat.

Events

PlayFair 2012 - Celebrating Five Years of Play

The first PlayFair was held in 2008 in order to provide a platform for API members to promote their products directly to communities and schools. It has not taken long for the reputation of PlayFair to grow over the years, with increasing numbers of visitors attending at every show.

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Worlds of Exercise

Schuzlhof school playground: “BeWegte Welten” (Worlds of Exercise) on the “Am Botanischen Garten” primary school playground in Frankfurt (Oder).

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Design opens up countless possibilities

1. Playground@Landscape: In English and French design means "creation" or "conception", whereas the Italian disegno (English: drawing, sculpture) has the stronger meaning of a process to be tested, like the Spanish diseño.

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Sparkling source of ideas for the school playground

The editors of “Playground@Landscape asked Erich Hiller Vice President of the Bundesverband Garten-, Landschafts- und Sportplatzbau e. V. (BGL) (Federal Association for Garden, Landscape and Sports Fields) and member of Ausbildungsförderwerk Garten-, Landschafts- und Sportplatzbau e. V. (AuGaLa) about the outcome of the competition held in 2011.

Playground Report

School playgrounds – schoolyards as public playgrounds

Where can children play in a densely populated town these days anyway?
School playgrounds are generally the only resources that can even be considered as public play areas. The grounds that would be used for play areas – if at all – are expensive and hard to come by, yet there are already alternatives available, which are completely free.

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“Exerting yourself sensually and voluntarily”

Exercise – a law of nature, on the school playground too.
Unlike us adults, “health” or “fitness” isn’t enough of a reason for children to exercise. Children exercise because they are curious about wanting to discover their environment and, above all, because exercise is an evolutionary conditional “law of nature”.