Allowing Natural Light into Locker Rooms
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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Drought-Ridden Field Owners Reconsider Maintenance Practices, Synthetic Turf
Robert Lee, Texas, population 1,106, got three inches of rain in the first 11 months of 2011.
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Efficient Locker Room Design Maximizes Use of Small Spaces
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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How High School ADs Can Rein in Questionable Coaching Behavior
The final months of 2011 brought almost weekly stories of high school coaches misbehaving.
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New Projects: Baylor; St. Joseph's College; Washington State University
St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn, N.Y., began work on a new athletic facility last month.
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Outdoor Sports Lighting Projects Don't Need to Rile the Neighbors
The Westport (Conn.) Planning and Zoning Commission, in granting the Installation of permanent lights at the Staples High School football field in November, brought to a close nearly 35 years of often-contentious debate between city leaders, sports boosters and school neighbors over spill and glare issues.
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Record NCAA Graduation Rates Don't Tell The Whole Story
Nearing the end of a year marked by scandal and scrutiny, the NCAA finally had some good news to share.
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Rethinking Municipal Golf Course Operations
Last November, the City of Duluth, Minn., hired a consultant from National Golf Foundation Consulting Inc. to evaluate its two 27-hole municipal golf courses and suggest improvements.
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Sexual Abuse Expert Cordelia Anderson Assesses Coaching Scandals
As president of the National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation, Cordelia Anderson sees the Penn State University scandal as both a tragedy and an opportunity.
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Ten Things to Consider When Purchasing a Hardwood Gym Floor
The Road to the Final Four is paved in maple. And so are the majority of gymnasiums at every level of competition across North America.
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Universal Truths in Fitness Facility Management
We may be showing our age here, but we regularly invoke Bill Murray from Groundhog Day, the 1993 film in which his hapless weatherman, Phil Connors, relives the same day over and over until he gets things right.
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