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Locker Reuse at Center of Locker Room Renovation
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Andrew Cohen,
April 2013
One might have expected the renovation of Brooklawn Country Club’s men’s locker room to yield new custom wood lockers, but members of the Fairfield, Conn., private club wouldn't hear of losing their cage-style metal lockers, which are valued by members and management for their history, large size and superior ventilation.
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Broken Lockers: Repair or Replace?
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Emily Attwood,
April 2013
When Kim Clark took over as the University of Houston's director of campus recreation in 2012, one of the first things she noticed was the poor condition of the lockers. ...
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Locker Room Design Goes Vertical at Oregon, Michigan
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Paul Steinbach,
August 2012
Glen E. “Bo” Schembechler Hall houses the University of Michigan’s football offices, a Michigan football museum and team locker rooms.
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Allowing Natural Light into Locker Rooms
By
Andrew Cohen,
January 2012
Locker room users don’t tend to be bathed in natural light. Locker rooms are often located on a building’s lower levels and very often inhabit an interior space that opens into a daylit pool, gym or fitness center on the building’s perimeter.
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Efficient Locker Room Design Maximizes Use of Small Spaces
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Emily Attwood,
January 2012
From high-tech lock technology to plush lounge areas, whirlpools, Internet access and private showers and dressing areas, it's easy to sink a significant amount of money into creating the ultimate locker room.
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Multi-Sized Lockers Serve Multipurpose Facility
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Andrew Cohen,
August 2011
Multipurpose recreation centers oughtn't feature single-purpose lockers, and yet many facilities come equipped with inappropriately sized day lockers.
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Lock Specification is Key to Locker Room Design
By
Nicholas Brown,
January 2011
There are few components in any recreation center, aquatics center or health club that nearly every facility user is guaranteed to touch on nearly every visit. One of those components is the locker door lock. And unlike major program spaces or available exercise equipment, locks are unlikely to be one of the amenities that initially draws patrons to a given facility.
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Today's Locker Rooms are Filled with Recycled, Recyclable Materials
By
Nicholas Brown,
October 2010
With the ubiquity of LEED certification, today's locker rooms are filled with recycled and recyclable material
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Technology Advances Complicate Cell Phone, iPod Usage in Locker Rooms
By
Nicholas Brown,
May 2010
Technological advancements in handheld personal devices complicate usage policies for the locker room and beyond.
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Failed Referendum Causes School Supporters to Make Repairs On Their Own
By
Michael Popke,
April 2009
A failed referendum to repair athletic facilities forces one school district's supporters to take matters into their own hands.
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