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Anytime opens specialist fitness showroom in Scotland
Anytime Leisure has announced that it has now moved to a brand new head office and showroom in Newbridge, Edinburgh. The existing staff team of 31 moved to the
new location at the end of September and the showroom is now open to customers and the public, having been opened by special guest Judy Murray on 6 December. Anytime director Jonny Curley said: “The
showroom is an excellent step forward for Anytime and will allow us to move more into the home fitness market while supporting our existing commercial fitness clients.” The company also made the decision
to relocate to a 23,000sq ft warehouse, in order to accommodate its recent growth and to develop the business, which has been rewarded with several large commercial contracts for organisations including; West Dunbartonshire Leisure, City of Glasgow College and Nuffield Health.
The Perthshire facility has been given a Wimbledon-themed finish
Doe Sport North serves up Murray’s championship court at Cromlix
With a backdrop of Perthshire forest, it’s surely the most picturesque tennis court setting in Scotland, but the owner isn’t renowned for tak- ing his eye of the ball. Doe Sport North has just completed the
Surfacing made from old sport shoes
Recycled play surfacing range expanded
Playtop, the play surfacing company, has added four new colours to its Playtop with Nike Grind range, where at least 70 per cent of the content is recycled material. The range is created using worn-out
sports shoes, recycled vehicle tyres and other recycled rubber materials, meaning that every square metre of the improved range contains rubber from at least 22 shoes, making the journey straight from player to playground. The expanded range will include four new colours: Sand, Brown, Flame and Plum to complement the existing range of Red, Black, Blue and Green. Each of the colours, with the Playtop black
base layer, will have a recycled content of up to 91 per cent. The cost of this new range is considerably less than conventional play surfacing per square metre which employs an EPDM top layer – able to save facility owners as much as 30 per cent.
installation of a brand new facility at Andy Mur- ray’s soon to open country house hotel near is hometown of Dunblane in Perthshire. Needless to say, the fetching purple and green finish was specified by the Wimbledon champion. Les MacLean, managing director of Fife-based Doe Sport North, explained that the Wimble- don-themed finish was down to the versatility of the surface. “The facility we’ve installed here is designed specifically for the UK and is in de- mand by top tennis clubs.” he said. “It’s a quite
sophisticated porous macadam, and it’s finished with an acrylic protective and decorative coat- ing which helps maintain the consistency of the court, whatever the conditions. Guests should spot right away the Wimble-
don-themed finish. While keeping their first serves in play will be down to the users, every- thing else should be kept courtside by fencing from long-time collaborators JB Corrie & Co. Doe Sport North has completed a number of private client facilities in the area. Les MacLean has been working personally
with Judy Murray on the project, and is keen for Doe Sport’s own community involvement ambitions to grow on the back of such high- profile approval..
‘Living exterior’ for Sweden’s new national arena
Friends Arena, in Solna, Sweden, boasts an impressive ‘living exterior’, comprised of dynamically controlled architectural RGB floodlights. The stadium has a capacity for 50,000-seated visitors or 65,000 standing. The arena and exterior are illuminated by Philips lighting solutions, which undertook the project on the behalf of Lighthouse AB. “The ambition was to give Friends Arena a living exterior which can be altered to suit a particular event being hosted,” says Helena Åkerberg lighting architect for Lighthouse AB. The arena uses a combination of RGB
floodlights to create a spectacular façade, the effects and colouring of which can be modified to match the atmosphere of ev- ery occasion. Inside the arena itself, there are 316 ArenaVision MVF404 floodlights
Friends Arena in Solna, Stockholm
and 16 ArenaVision floodlights with hot re- strike feature, all mounted 42m in the air on a custom walkway. Each of the floodlights is individually directed to comply with the FIFA requirements, where lighting for HD televi- sion broadcast has to be below 3500 lux.
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