TENNIS
The LTA suggests that one existing court can be covered from £55,000 for a single skin airhall to £450,000-plus for a building using traditional construction methods
The costs of improvements? When it comes to budgeting for im- provements, the range and costs of tennis courts in particular vary widely. Ignoring regional variations and site specific issues, indicative costs for the various facility types as described in the table are as follows: • Court upgrading – resurfacing and upgrading existing porous macadam courts to the same sur- face type – approximately £18,000 for a block of two courts • Construction of a block of two new tennis courts – porous macadam or artificial grass – approximately £48,000 and £64,000 respectively • Floodlighting a block of two exist- ing courts – around £20,000 • Performance courts – the Lawn Ten- nis Association (LTA) views these as being clay and impervious acrylic courts, but there are now many vari- ations of these two types of courts which, according to the suppliers, have similar performance charac- teristics. The range of variation is also reflected in the range of costs, where acrylic courts (similar to those at Flushing Meadows) can start at £30,000 per court and clay courts can be anything up to a staggering £60,000. It is not surprising there- fore that Britain has only a modest number of outdoor performance courts. There are less than 30 in the whole of Scotland • Mini tennis markings – cones or plastic temporary lines can be used effectively, otherwise around £300
for the permanent marking of play- grounds or hard surface areas • Practice walls – greatly dependant upon type and size of construction but costs from £3,000 • Covered courts – considerable vari- ance in costs depending upon the type of construction and the number of courts. The LTA suggests that one existing court can be covered from £55,000 for a single skin airhall option to £450,000-plus for a building using traditional construction methods • Pavilions – again, costs are de- pendant upon the scope, size and materials used, but off-site modular buildings are now of more interest to clubs and venues where sites are appropriate and square metre costs for a modular timber construction can be around half that of a tradi- tional construction. With further cost efficiencies realised if stan- dardised designs can be maximised
These can only be viewed as guide budget costs (excluding VAT, which of course is set to increase to 20 per cent in 2011) and assume normal site conditions. More detailed expert guidance should always be sought. Life cycle costs should also be evalu- ated to assess the level of funding required for major works and replace- ment costs in the future. Chris Trickey, chief executive of the
Sport and Play Construction Asso- ciation (SAPCA) states: “Experience shows that those clubs and clients that take a far more business-like approach to facility procurement are
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