INDOOR FLOORING
Standards for
INDOOR SURFACES
SAPCA’s Colin Young discusses the flooring requirements needed to meet the existing European Standard and how it helps to evaluate indoor surfaces for specific sporting use
the performance requirements for the dif- ferent sports which are likely to be played on it as well as non-sporting applications. With so many factors to consider, choosing the right surface can be difficult. To help with this decision, indoor floor-
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ing standards exist, which have been produced for surface manufacturers to use in order to evaluate their products and help categorise their performance, quality, longevity and safety. However, in recent years there has
been a change in the standards used to evaluate these surfaces. The old British (BS 7044) and German (DIN 18032) stan- dards have both been superseded by the European Standards EN 14904.
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he surface of an indoor sports hall is arguably the most important aspect of the facility. The flooring should be capable of providing
The EN 14904 is aimed at indoor facili-
ties for multi-sports use (it is not aimed at elite sport-specific venues such as ten- nis centres) and hence is applicable to almost all sports halls within the UK. For sport-specific surfaces, the inter-
national or national governing body of each sport will normally have its own performance standards that have more stringent requirements.
What are European Standards? European Standards supersede National Standards (British Standards) where there are conflicting equivalents. They are
produced by the European Committee for Standardization or Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN) in Brussels. The CEN was formed in 1961 with the
aim “to foster the European economy in global trading, the welfare of Euro- pean citizens and the environment by providing an efficient infrastructure to interested parties for the development, maintenance and distribution of coher- ent sets of standards and specifications”. In other words, the aim is to normalise British (BS), German (DIN) and other countries of the European trade zone; and to remove conflicting or duplicating
With the publication of EN 14094 in 2006, the old British Standard BS 7044 was withdrawn and new facilities should be built to the new standard
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