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Articles in issue 2013 - 1

Planning, Designing, Building

Playtop Perfect for Pandas

Tian Tian, meaning "sweetie", and Yang Guang, meaning "sunshine", have two separate enclosures at the zoo, one of which includes a Playtop impact-absorbing surface.

Planning, Designing, Building

Coir logs for the design of children’s playgrounds

Coir logs were originally developed for near-natural river bank stabilization and have been successfully used for this purpose for decades.

Planning, Designing, Building

Snug provides mobile play resource for market town

Following the construction of a Sainsbury’s Supermarket, Section 106 funding was made available in Neston resulting in the publication of a Public Realm Design Guide which highlighted the need to develop the market square.

Planning, Designing, Building

Leisure pools now provide a special play experience on Euroflex® EPDM Aqua Slabs

This is how one could define this type of outdoor areas, usually incorporated into a thermal bath or an open-air swimming pool.

Planning, Designing, Building

New Play Panels for Schools

A unique modular system allows you to combine the panels and transform them into a fantastic fire engine or a colourful camper van.

Planning, Designing, Building

The swinging and the splashing begins at Martin Mere

an increase of 6000 visitors from the same time the year before.

Planning, Designing, Building

Huck Bird’s Nest® prevents accidents

Bird’s nest swings are therefore popular play items in every playground as they fit several children at one time, which brings an added thrill to the play.

Planning, Designing, Building

Mega Zip Line in the Harz Mountains opened

As of now, starting from a launch tower, riders can soar down a 1,000 metre long zip line with the aid of a pulley (OC Falcon) either alone or in pairs of two side by side at speeds of up to 50 mph.

Planning, Designing, Building

2012-2013 Handbook for Landscape Architects published

The 2012/2013 handbook is the first publication of the Federation of German Landscape Architects to forge a link with the bdla’s anniversary year for on 29 October 1913 landscape architects around Grand Ducal Hessian court garden engineer Philipp Siesmeyer founded the Association of German Garden Architects in Frankfurt on the Main.

Planning, Designing, Building

ESTO secures victory for Synthetic Turf Industry

The German Institute for Normalisation (DIN) in 2011 introduced a "pre-standard" for synthetic turf, DIN SPEC 18035-7.

Planning, Designing, Building

Design is what makes the style, the look

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.

Coverstory

More in the community funds?

The NRW local authorities are to receive circa € 8.7 billion from the state coffers in 2013.

Planning, Designing, Building

“Moved Childhood” Congress for the 8th time in Osnabruck

With 3,000 participants, they belong to the largest events on the topic of childhood, and every two years attract educational staff to Osnabruck from all over Germany and elsewhere in Europe.

Planning, Designing, Building

How do you pay for an activity trail when you’ve no money?

However, there are certain communities in which the authority personnel are facing up to the challenge and are finding ways to successfully acquire funding.

Planning, Designing, Building

Synthetic turf fall-protection provides numerous advantages

(Hennef, Germany, 14.01.2013) – The company Trofil Sportbodensysteme GmbH & Co. KG, based in Hennef, Germany, not only produces synthetic turf for uses in sport and events, for some time now, it has also offered synthetic turf systems for impact protection which ensure improved safety and which have already been installed in nursery schools, school playgrounds or sports facilities.

Planning, Designing, Building

Seminar on the topic of plastic and synthetic turf surfaces

Organiser of the conference is the International Association for Sports and Leisure facilities (IAKS).

Planning, Designing, Building

German youth welfare organisation development fund is welcoming applications until 31 March 2013

The goal of the development fund is to improve the lives of children and youths through participation.

Events

PLAYFAIR joins IOG SALTEX at Windsor Racecourse

In a deal struck by PlayFair organiser Brintex Events, with the support of the Association of Play Industries (API), PlayFair’s move to co-locate with IOG SALTEX is a welcome development.

Playground Report

“Make three from one” – providing more play options in Nuremburg

Through its “Make three from one” (Aus 1 mach 3) programme, the city of Nuremburg contributes two euros for every donated euro in order to ensure that projects can be accomplished that would otherwise be delayed because of lack of funding. In 2005, for example, this concept proved to be so successful that it was possible to construct a cycle path from the finances raised.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Structural change in sport

Usually, however, the main focus of attention is the over-ageing of society. How should the younger generations carry the weight of the older ones? How can the health system help shoulder this burden?

Playground Report

Themed playgrounds in Vienna: Planning is everything

When playgrounds are being planned, renovated and redesigned, the users (young people, children) are integrated in the planning process by means of participation projects, so that their interests can be taken into consideration and included.

Coverstory

Playgrounds - when money is a problem

One of your first ports of calls might well be your bank, who will be happy to explain their various loan options to you. However, who can you consult if you need advice on how to obtain funding for playgrounds?

Individual loan agreements at optimal rates?

Sports & Leisure Facilities

4th "Sportinfra" of the lsb h provides impulse for communities and associations

More than 60 exhibitors, well over 1000 registered visitors and a pretty impressive supporting programme. These are the main facts of the fourth "Sportinfra", the leading German trade fair for sports facility planning and construction.

Playground Report

Rainbow strip in Helene Deutsch Park

In a hidden little park in Vienna, colourful module furniture is at once a key element and a space divider, furniture and play equipment.

Playground Report

Wiener Wohnen: Facility for all ages on Donaustadt municipal estate

The Alfred-Klinkan-Hof at Donaustadtstrasse 30 is home to a total of 533 flats. Thus more than 1,000 people share the green and open spaces of the municipal apartment complex.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

FC Kray plays on Polytan artificial turf

And because these conditions were no longer fitting or acceptable for a league club, action was quickly taken. It was little over the length of a summer break, after 14 weeks of construction time, before Günter Oberholz Chairman of FCK announced: “We really hit the jackpot with the decision to select the Polytan turf.