Sports & Play Area Netting
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Sports & Play Area Netting
We manufacture nets for many types of indoor and outdoor sporting activities including golf, football, rugby and cricket. More recently we have designed and supplied a range of bespoke netting and rope products for a new trampoline park company. We regularly supply and install netting around Multi Use Game Areas at many locations throughout the Uk.
Design, supply and installation of theming for amusement parks, water parks and other attractions using various types of netting, materials, synthetic or natural rope/twine is one of our specialities with Alton Towers, Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Madam Tussauds amongst our regular clients.
Leisure Centres & Sports Centres
Whatever the level of ability or choice of sport, multipurpose sports halls are a cost effective venue for a variety of drysports. From grass roots and community led sports initiatives upwards, these courts are designed to make the best use of space and to maximise the revenue opportunity from the sports hall or sports fields. These modular court systems enable sports such as Cricket, 5 aside Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Badminton, golf, trampolining etc to be played simultaneously side by side.
Cross court and walkway containment is effected by a net canopy, additional net curtains are clipped into place depending upon the need for rapid reconfiguration and the tracking system layout. Through careful design the netting can also protect internal lighting and public address systems.
The suitability of these designs has been established within 5 aside football. Each team play in their own contained area using a system of interlocking kickboards. Depending upon the physical nature of the sport and the need for flexibility the kickboards can slot into a plug and socket system direct into the pitch surface, allowing for any size and amount of courts to be created.
The modular nature of the design enables club requirements to be satisfied, whilst allowing for bespoke, retrofit or upgrade options to be taken into account at an operational level. The kickboards can be removed for storage, the netting drawn back if larger space is needed. All materials are designed for long term operation with constant use in mind leaving staff free to concentrate on their day to day responsibilities.
Schools & Sports Colleges
Boris ball court systems range from 0.9M in height to 5M (over 20 feet) and involve the use of kick boards, welded meshes & synthetic netting fabrics as necessary to meet architects specifications.
Different specifications and designs are available for outdoor sports boundary netting and crowd protection nets. Practice nets for golf, football, cricket are available in standard sizes and to bespoke dimensions maximising the opportunity from the space available.
Extreme Sports Protection Netting
When sports are played out in close proximity to the participating crowd, players and participants can put themselves in mutual danger. A crowd protection netting system at the Manchester Velodrome for the safety of both the cyclists and the public provided a cost efficient and simple transparaent method for the spectators to get as close as possible to their sport.
Netting systems can be designed to take the worst case scenario impact whether it be from an ice hockey puck, a cyclist racing around a velodrome or to stop a customer getting into difficulty on a watershute!
Sports & Play Area Netting
Support and Information for Specifiers of Academies, Sports Centres & Schools
Boris Nets offer a free consultancy service to clubs, architects, quantity surveyors, builders and owners of sports infrastructure to help save you time and money during the early specification phase.
This service is most useful when indoor multisports use is being considered or where there is a need for effective zoning and multi play facilities in line with the standard or formality of matchplay. Our advice is provided free of charge from the early stages of a project through to specification, we actively welcome enquiries.
What we Need to Provide a Definitive Quotation for Indoor Sports Partitioning
Steelwork drawings: detailing main layout or roof section showing beams, columns, purlin sizes and roof beam pitch.
Architect Drawings: Ground Floor and First Floor layout plans. Sections through side and end walls from floor to roof showing types of wall construction plus floor type and heights of beams at eaves and apex. Main lighting and heating drawings showing positions and height above finished floor level.
If advice is required please consider asking as early as possible as retrospective work can be expensive. To discuss any of the points detailed contact us on the number above or click here.
Structure Design Tips: Sport England provides two very useful guidance notes for sports hall design. The first covers all aspects of building design including ancillary areas outside the hall itself. These notes include comments on lighting, colours, changing rooms, construction type etc. To download click on the following link: “Sport England Sports Halls: Design”
Partitioning and Zoning Tips: The second guidance note considers the sizes and layouts of the actual hall depending on the standard of matchplay the facility intends to host. The document goes on to set out the court dimensions for popular indoor sports. There can be conflicts between courts and partitioning dimensions depending upon the sports specified and the standard of matchplay. Contact Boris Nets for further comment, or see the notes below. To download click on the following link: “Sport England Sports Halls: Sizes and Layouts”
Net Tracking Systems and Indoor Facility Roof Height
It is critical roof height is considered at the earliest planning stage. Based upon the requirement for badminton courts, Sports England guidance requires 7.6M clear height above the finished floor level. Bear in mind services including lighting and possibly heating will need to be above this height. Enough space must be left for the depth of the trackway and related fixing off which the division nets and cricket nets hang. Allow for gaps between the nets and any ambi-rad or similar roof mounted space heating and/or roof mounted retractable sports equipment. We can advise on how much space is required.
For variable pitch roofs the limiting factor is the lowest point of the roof ie the eaves height. This height determines the height of all trackway (eg cricket) which traverses badminton courts. Therefore in the centre of the hall, although there maybe plenty of height to the roof apex from the badminton court floor, in practice there maybe trackway passing over this space which must be set higher than 7.6M. Where you have a variable pitch roof please talk to us at the earliest stage for assistance and advice so that the installed trackway is compliant with the selected matchplay criteria.
Cricket Bay Widths
The English Cricket Board and Sports England recommend a minimum bay width of 3.66M and an optimal width of 4.0M. This would enable 4 bays to be installed in a ‘standard’ 18M wide sports hall with a 1.0M safety gap along the running wall edges.
If retractable matchplay basketball goals are to be installed as well as cricket bays then a gap along the centre line of the hall needs to be allowed for, to ensure the goals do not interfere with the cricket netting trackway in the roof space. If the hall width is a standard 18M then the bay width must be reduced accordingly to accommodate both sports. Further complications can occur if compliant matchplay for both cricket across 4 bays and basket ball is being considered then the hall would need to be at least 20.0M wide.
Underfloor Heating & Rebound Board Sockets
If plans are being made for underfloor heating in the hall then consideration should be given to areas separated by, or zoned by, rebound boards ensuring that the floor layout can accommodate the plug and socket rebound board floor fixings without compromising the underfloor heating system.
Contact Details
Telephone: +44 (0)1253 874891
Email: office@borisnet.co.uk
Facsimile: +44 (0)1253 778203
Head Office Address
Copse Road,
Fleetwood,
Lancashire,
FY7 6RP
Boris Net Company Limited
Reg. No. 00607513
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