Article form issue 2013 - 4

Planning, Designing, Building

Boundless jumping fun and experiencing unique bouncing motion for young and old alike

Planning, Designing, Building

Motorikparks for everyone

Planning, Designing, Building

smb develops versatile low-ropes course variant Adventure Park with rope tensioning system

Planning, Designing, Building

Huck group celebrated 50 years of Manfred Huck GmbH and 20 years of Huck Seiltechnik GmbH

Planning, Designing, Building

Kompan News

Planning, Designing, Building

An innovative piece of urban furniture - Standbank

Planning, Designing, Building

Keeping fit and having fun outdoors – Erlau presents three new pieces of fitness equipment

Planning, Designing, Building

Caribbean island gets blue and yellow synthetic athletic track

Planning, Designing, Building

An even wider range of services and offers for all outdoor athletes: the outdoor equipment special by Erhard Sport

Planning, Designing, Building

Stone love for Timberplay at Ecobuild

Planning, Designing, Building

New: Lappset Gym – Callisthenic training for everyone

Planning, Designing, Building

Flipflap Order No.: 7.6655-E

Planning, Designing, Building

Let the water flow – for Euroflex shock-absorbent surfacing systems

Coverstory

Activity trail or rollator parking spaces?

According to Media Control’s spring survey, 79% of Germans want to do outdoor sport. And: the number of older people is increasing rapidly the world over.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Mission to Moers: a combined sports complex that is out of this world

This is a very special project for Polytan|STI.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Trofil and SMG Synthetic turf seminar organised by the Siegburger Turnverein 1862/92 e.V.

The main topic was how much care a synthetic turf pitch requires (by the owners and external companies) in order to achieve optimal durability.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Bloemfontein Athletic Stadium with new CONICA track

The Mangaung Athletics Stadium in Bloemfontein has been undergoing major renovations during the last two years.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Proper maintenance for playground and sports field surfaces

Rain, wind and other environmental elements cause dirt particles and other impurities to get lodged in the open pore structure of synthetic surfaces.

Playground Report

Scherz e.V. creates sports facilities and activity areas

The lack of physical activity by children and young people has become a serious problem not only for families but for society as a whole.

Playground Report

The trend growing older – Demographic change

In his sketch of an ideal condition for society, the British diplomat was convinced that it formed an obstacle to people from “reaching paradise on earth”.

Playground Report

Not just for senior citizens: Design students create fitness equipment

As soon as funding has been secured, these are to be set up at the Lindenplatz in Würselen near Aachen.

Playground Report

On the path to a town where life is long and good

Demographic change can and must be responded to at the municipal level. It is on the basis of this conviction that an ageing society has for many years been a key issue for the town of Arnsberg.

Playground Report

Outdoor fitness

Chairman of the newly founded "Outdoor fitness park" committee within the Bundesverband für Spielplatzgeräte- und Freizeitanlagen-Hersteller e.V. (BSFH) [a federal association of playground equipment and leisure facility manufacturers].

Playground Report

Outdoor fitness area in Berlin Neukölln

Neukölln is the eighth of a total of twelve boroughs that make up Berlin and it is located in the southern section of Germany’s capital. Neukölln has a population of more than 313,000, but this part of the city is characterised by high levels of unemployment, child poverty, rapid resident fluctuation, a lack of community spirit, a large proportion of immigrants and poor access to education.

Playground Report

Accommodating the differing requirements of freedom of movement and safety

Niederbronner Platz in Fürstenfeldbruck: neighbourhood square, activity garden and water feature.

The construction of Niederbronner Platz as a neighbourhood square in the major district city of Fürstenfeldbruck is part of an overall concept for structural development of the eastern inner city.

Playground Report

The outdoors trend

“Augmented Outdoors” describes the origins of a new understanding of nature for the 21st century. The focus is no longer on the inspiring ideal of the untouched, which was, moreover, always an illusion.

Events

Euro Attractions Show 2013 Opens Second Exhibit Hall to Respond to High Demand

The Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, will host Euro Attractions Show (EAS) 2013, the largest European conference and trade show for the attractions industry, Wednesday, 18 September through Friday, 20 September.

Playground Report

Europe’s largest motor activities park

It means that coordination and motor skills can now be honed out of doors.

Municipalities and Associations

FEPI - NEW BEGINNINGS.

The meeting was attended by representatives from Lappset , Hags, Legnolandia and the Association of Play Industries (API).

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Artificial turf technology – A visit to Morton Extrusionstechnik factory in the Odenwald

The Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region is one of the most populated and revenue-rich regions in Germany; Morton Extrusionstechnik GmbH (MET for short), one of Europe's largest manufacturers of monofilaments, has also been based there in Abtsteinach since 2008.