Athletic Training Facilities

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Athletic Training Facilities

• How to Plan Design Your Facility

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Designing a facility

• Before meeting with an architect, you must spend
  some time thinking about what will be needed in
  the new facility.
• Concept Planning Document
• Philosophy of the facility
• Intended space allocation

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Concept Planning Document

• Philosophy of the facility
• Administrations philosophy
• Type of sports to be served
• of patients to be served
• Hours of use
• Other functions

• Athletic training facility philosophy
• Must fit within administrations philosophy
• Proposed uses of facility
• Placement of facility (exits, locker rooms, easy
  access, male/female access)
• staff members
• patients served
• Traffic flow patterns
• Classes/labs

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Concept Planning Document

• Intended Space Allocation
• Offices Record Keeping - confidentiality
• Evaluation Treatment
• Rehabilitation
• Taping waste buckets, sink, flooring
• Storage - shelving
• Drug screening separate bathroom, privacy
• Exam room
• Teaching room/lab
• What type of equipment?
• Size (2-3 sq. ft./person during peak loads
  square footage occupied by equipment) others in
  area at time (AT, Dr.) (ideal is 1000-1200 sq.
  ft)
• Location compared to other facilities

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Concept Planning Document

• Intended space allocation
• Specific space allocation
• Electrical
• Plumbing
• Ventilation (hydrotherapy)
• Telephone, computer, communication systems,
  stereo systems
• Ceiling type height tall athletes
• Door width height -
• Cabinetry, workstations
• Flooring type non-slip, industrial grade
• Carpet vs. tile

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Concept Planning Document

• Wall covering sound absorbers
• Colors
• White safe, cleanliness, sanitary
• Black strong accent color, use in small
  quantities
• Reds exciting, stimulation, unpleasant tensions
• Orange similar to reds, but not as great an
  extent
• Yellow (creams, beiges) humor, cheery, decrease
  tensions
• Green calm, restful
• Blue rest, calm, overuse depression
• Violet rest, calm, uncertainty, depression,
  tension
• Neutrals (gray, brown, tan) grays good
  background w/ other colors, browns/tans
  homelilke lighter tones masculine heavier
  tones
• Lighting 4-5 ft. off ground GFIC,
• 20-50 foot candles of illumination 4 above floor
  for taping, rehab
• 50-100 foot candles facial expressions, skin
  color
• Windows more calming effect

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Concept Planning Document

• Application of Title III from ADA
• Installing ramps
• Making curbs cut in sidewalks/entrances
• Repositioning telephones
• Adding raised markings on elevator control
  buttons
• Installing flashing alarm lights
• Widening doors
• Installing accessible door hardware
• Installing grab bars in toilet stalls
• Rearranging toilet partitions to increase
  maneuvering space
• Repositioning paper towel dispenser in bathroom
• Installing paper cup dispenser at water fountains
• Removing high-pile, low-density carpeting

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Designing a Facility - Area Construction
Considerations

• Program areas
• General facility considerations
• Taping area
• Treatment area
• Rehabilitation area
• Hydrotherapy area
• Office area
• Exam room area
• Pharmacy area
• Storage area

• Program areas
• Specialty pad Orthotic work area
• Locker room, lavatory, shower
• Janitorial storage closet
• Conference room or library
• Rehabilitation pool
• X-ray room

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Construction Documents

• Floor plans
• List of Construction Documents
• (Rankin Ingersoll, 2006, p. 317)

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Communication with the Architect

• Concept Plans
• What you want in the facility (mandatory
  wishes)
• Preliminary Drawing
• Look at the plans review
• Space allocation
• Traffic flow
• Electrical, Plumbing, Lighting, Ventilation,
  Heating Cooling
• Walls floors
• Door placement
• Final Drawing
• Review everything again! Last chance to change
  things

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Remodeling an Existing Facility

• What do you want to change?
• How can you change it?
• What is cost effective?
• Can those walls be moved?
• Plumbing?
• Are there more headaches than would be if a new
  facility was made?

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Reading Floor Plans and Blue Prints

• Architectural symbols
• Rankin Ingersoll, 2006, p. 319
• Distance