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Hosting Special Events Inside Sports Venues

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Changes to NHL Rinks Target Lacerations and Concussions

Small changes to NHL rinks are minimizing the risk of lacerations, and even concussions.

Basketball Skillastics Jazzes Up a California After-School Program

A new game teaching sports, fitness and life lessons jazzes up a California after-school program.

Gym Floor Splinters a Pain in the Backside

Splintered floorboards make for a pain in the backside.

Facility Specifications

Facility SpecificationsA standard badminton court measures 20' x 44' and can be used for both singles and doubles play. The diagram includes specifications for long service, short service, center and side lines.A standard baseball diamond measures 90' from base to base and 60'6" from pitcher's plate to home. Diagrams include specifications for base lines, batter's box, catcher's box, foul line, pitcher's plate, home plate, coach's box, on-deck circle and grass lines. The PDF includes variations for youth league, pony league and senior league fields.Optimum dimensions of a basketball court are 94' x 50' (professional/college) or 84' x 50' (high school). Diagrams include specifications for sidelines, three-point line, free-throw lane, center circle, coaching box and scorers' table.Optimum dimensions for field hockey are 100 yards x 60 yards with the grass cut to a height of ¾" - 1½". The diagram includes sidelines, striking circle and penalty stroke line.A standard football field measures 360' x 160' (including end zones). Diagrams of professional, college and high school feature pylon specifications, goal post detail, recommended yard-line numbering and end zone detail.Recommended ice hockey dimensions vary in the range of 85' - 100' x 185' - 200'. Diagrams include specifications for face-off configuration, crease and goal frame.A standard lacrosse field measures 60 yards x 110 yards. Diagrams include specifications for sidelines, goal, defensive area and wing area. A standard pickleball court measures 22 by 40 feet. Diagrams include other court dimensions, line tolerances and net height.A standard racquetball court configuration measures 20' x 40' x 20'. A racquetball court may be converted into an international 20' singles squash court.Measurements of a standard rugby field are not to exceed 70m x 144m. The diagram includes goal specifications.Soccer field dimensions may vary in the range of 50 - 100 yards x 100 - 130 yards. The PDF includes specifications for both outdoor and indoor soccer fields.The PDF includes international singles and doubles courts, and hardball doubles court.The distance between bases on a softball field varies from 60' (fast pitch) to 65' (slow pitch). The PDF includes in-field diagram, home plate details, official distance table and wheelchair softball specifications.Included here are the facility standards of FINA and USA Swimming; APSP construction dimensions for class B and C pools; and NCAA recommended dimensions for collegiate competition (long-course swimming, short-course swimming and diving facilities). A standard team handball court measures 2,000 by 4,000 centimeters.A standard tennis court measures 36' x 78' (including doubles alleys).Dimensions for track and field events based on requirements set forth by the NFHS. Diagrams serve merely as examples; rules allow variation in geometry and layout. PDF includes specifications for 400 meter track, 400 meter events (with staggers and hurdle settings), track/playing field configuration, shot put pad, suggested discus/hammer cage, javelin runway, pole vault landing area, long jump/triple jump pit plan and high jump detail.A standard volleyball court measures 29'6" x 59' (9m x 18m). The PDF includes diagrams for both indoor and outdoor volleyball courts.A standard water polo course measures 25m x 20m with a recommended water depth of 2m. The PDF includes diagrams of both floating goal and wall-mounted goal variations.Diagrams for high school, college and international wrestling mats.

Keeping a Campus Rec Center's Construction Budget Under Control

Balancing macro- and microeconomic factors is vital to keeping a campus rec center project's budget under control.

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Soccer Players and Fans Benefit from a North American Building Boom

Soccer players, and fans of the world's most popular sport, are benefiting from an unprecedented North American building Boom.How the different fields interrelate constitutes another important consideration. In strictly recreational settings, fields are sometimes laid out without berms, bleachers or other obstructions between them so that practice fields can be striped in either a north-south or east-west direction. This helps reduce wear around goalmouths and areas between fields, the two most heavily trafficked spaces during competitive play. If a complex's owner hopes to attract tournaments, fields should be laid out a minimum of 30 feet apart in all directions (50 feet is preferred). Even greater clearance should be provided for central spectator areas that serve more than one field (in cases in which two fields are laid out parallel to each other). Tall barriers, such as suspended net systems, are recommended to contain errant shots behind goals.Naturally, the addition of a large spectator venue to the mix will complicate things. Sites large enough to hold the infrastructure required of a professional sports venue aren't easy to come by in many cities, let alone sites big enough to hold a stadium and a dozen soccer fields. In addition, issues such as parking and recreational field placement (secondary fields shouldn't sit in the shadow of the larger structure, for example) are far more difficult to finesse in such cases.

Technical and Aesthetic Innovations in Free-Weight Areas

Technical and aesthetic innovations have lifted the free-weight area to new levels of user-friendliness and operational efficiency.

Managing the Construction Process from Excavation to Ribbon-Cutting

Managing the construction process requires that clients be fully engaged and informed from the initial site excavation to the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

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Basketball and Football Practice Facility Design

It doesn't matter whether Your basketball and football practice facilities are plain or pretty. Just make sure they're well organized.

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It Pays to Know How to Maintain the Roof Over Your Head

You can choose to leave the details to your architect or contractor, but ultimately it pays to know the composition of - and how to maintain - what's over your head.

Groundskeepers Strive for Peak Irrigation Efficiency

Rainfall was already lagging 30 inches behind the 12-month norm when drought conditions spiraled out of control last July in Mesquite, Texas. For two solid weeks, high temperatures topped 105 degrees, baking the city's clay-based recreational sports fields as if they were in some giant meteorological kiln. Fractured soil and patches of brown turf characterized many fields - the usable ones. And in a cruel bit of irony, updates to the in-ground irrigation system at one of Mesquite's multipurpose venues had bared so much soil to the blazing sun that cracks on that field measured a full 12 inches wide and three feet deep, exposing the system's brand-new wiring strung 18 inches below the playing surface and rendering the renovated tract useless for the entire baseball and football seasons.Grant Trenbeath, head groundskeeper for Major League Baseball's desert-based Arizona Diamondbacks, recently tweaked the irrigation system at Chase Field to allow high-speed rotors to water much of the facility's skinned areas. "To alleviate some of the man-hours we were pouring into the watering of our infield dirt, I put in a system that allows me to turn on one manual valve and run it while I'm hand-watering at the same time," Trenbeath says. "I can be done watering my infield and darn near flooding it in 15 minutes, as opposed to it taking three people up to 45 minutes."

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