Campus Recreational Sports Facilities: Planning, Design and Construction Guidelines

Campus Recreational Sports Facilities: Planning, Design and Construction Guidelines delivers expert advice on creating indoor and outdoor recreational spaces. It covers planning, feasibility studies, design standards for various facilities, and construction processes, with photos, a glossary, and website resources to ensure efficient, cost-effective projects aligned with institutional visions.

This book offers comprehensive guidelines for designing, constructing, and renovating indoor and outdoor recreational facilities. It incorporates industry standards, NIRSA guidelines, and planning principles, including universal and green design.

A dedicated website provides links to current field and court specifications from national governing bodies, facilitating efficient planning and design of sport spaces. A glossary ensures clear communication among architects, recreational sport directors, and contractors throughout the project.

Expert advice from architects, construction managers, and campus recreation directors is featured, along with numerous photos of facilities to inspire and illustrate guidelines. The book covers the planning process from the perspectives of campus master planners and recreational sport directors.

It details the feasibility study process, including decisions on building new or renovating existing facilities, and strategies for raising capital. Design and general planning standards are provided for indoor and outdoor recreational facilities, aquatic centers, and climbing walls.

The integration of furniture, fixtures, and equipment into architectural design and construction is addressed. An overview of the full architectural design and construction processes is included, along with guidance on moving in and opening new or renovated facilities.

Transforming the institutional vision of a recreational sport facility into reality is a complex, high-stakes process involving rising construction costs and institutional goals. This book builds confidence for those undertaking such projects.