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High-Performance Flooring  

Identifying the best performance flooring

Sponsored by Ecore USA

When selecting the right flooring for sports, fitness, and recreation applications, one size does not fit all. While the many choices in flooring can add aesthetic appeal to a facility, more critical are the safety, ergonomic, and acoustic benefits these surfaces provide for athlete safety and performance enhancement. This course identifies the different flooring types and designs needed for various sports, fitness, and recreational needs, giving architects, designers, and specifiers clear guidance on the optimal performance surfacing to select.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  1. Identify the critical needs for performance surfacing in sports, fitness, and recreation applications.
  2. Define important terminologies and concepts for performance flooring. Discuss how performance flooring benefits athletes, fitness, and recreation enthusiasts.
  3. Examine the flooring priorities for the most common athletic applications and identify the best performance flooring to specify for safety, acoustics, and ergonomics.
  4. Discuss a case study showing many types of performance flooring specified in one complex facility.