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ASSOCIATION OF PLAY INDUSTRIES
lines of responsibility. API members are
specialists in play space design and
delivery; they are responsible for more
than 2000 play spaces per year and have
developed methods and processes that
work. Yes there are large engineering
projects where qualified project
management is essential, but in the main,
play spaces are delivered on limited
budgets which cannot justify separate
costs for the design and project
management.
API members typically offer a free
design service and have between £10m
and £40m worth of live quotations, some
of which can be up to five years old. With
an average value of £30K per site, many
API member companies each have a builders. All this happens long before a
current investment of between £1.5m and contract or any guarantee of payment is
£6m in play space designs. These free agreed and often, the project is still at a
designs and quotes provide an invaluable competitive shortlist stage.
service supporting all those authorities The API and its members are a major
interested in delivering play schemes force in supporting and promoting
from: community groups, parish councils inclusive and challenging play spaces for
and private projects to the larger a variety of budgets and locations, and
organisations such as councils, corporate will continue to support its client base and
organisations, landscape architects and children’s play provision.
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