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The accessibility and inclusiveness of children’s and leisure areas in public spaces is part of the basic legislation in a growing number of countries and of the requirements of most operators of these spaces. Polysoft has certified its system to guarantee accessibility conditions. Inclusive spaces provide the opportunity for everyone to play together and shouldContinue reading “Accessibility of Polysoft absorbent flooring in playgrounds, water parks, exercise areas and leisure spaces”

The luxury jewellery group Bulgari has several precious properties as Hotels and Resorts in some of the best cities in the world and the Bulgari Resort Dubai is one of the best examples. The Italian architects Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel designed the Bulgari Resort Dubai drawing inspiration from its ocean setting to create aContinue reading “A Playground that is as a luxurious jewel in Bulgari Resort Dubai”

Polysoft surfaces are present at some of the most exclusive residential and hotel developments in the World and specially with some of the best examples in the Middle East. The two examples I will present in this post are in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and Bahrain and both offer a warm, swanky, safe and super-coolContinue reading “Luxury Splash Parks in Dubai and Bahrain”

To repurpose a garbage tip to become one of Australia’s most loved children’s playgrounds requires several things: good landscaping potential and ideas, designing a lot of play value with motivating play equipment, high dose of innovation and good technology on both the equipment and the safety surfacing and of course finally a close residential areaContinue reading “How a garbage tip became a Playground at Sydney Olympic Park”

One of the previous posts with a high number of visitors and views in this blog was that published in November 2021 under the title: Moss, Mould, Mildew, Algae, Lichen, Fungus in your rubber flooring? No doubt that in some countries, when using rubber granules, this may be a common issue for areas. As I explainedContinue reading “Algaecide for Waterpark and Splash Park surfaces based on Polyolefin”

COVID-19 stopped a lot of projects around the World but also helped some architects, investors and promoters to refine their ideas, mature the plans and create innovative and magnificent projects for new leisure spaces. The award-winning landscape architects and environmental planners at Green & Dale Associates, known for the design of several Zoologic and AquariumContinue reading “The flooring of a Savannah Splash Zoo”

When I was working at CONICA AG, one of the leading companies for sports high performance flooring, I learnt that the best systems for athletic tracks flooring were usually those using broadcasted small granules of EPDM. To help protect the joints, cartilage, ligaments and tendons of athletes, flooring must have the right shock absorption, butContinue reading “The VERSATEX® Non-Porous Flooring with broadcasted Polyolefin”

In my latest post in this blog, I explained the Play and Splash system from Polysoft. This was a permeable system for dry and wet applications. When a non-porous system is needed, you can use the one I’ll present here. The post today is about the versatile and adaptable system in the Polysoft portfolio namedContinue reading “A trowelled Non-Porous Flooring for water applications with Polyolefin”

About ten years ago, while visiting the FSB fair in Köln I was impressed by the vivid colours and the nice, rounded pebble looking on the flooring I saw on a booth from Polysoft that was one of the exhibitors in the fair near our booth. Different Color mixes of Polysoft Play/Splash System At thatContinue reading “Learning about Polyolefin wearing layers on dry and wet flooring”

World leaders are these days in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt for the 27th United Nations Climate Conference, or COP27. The meeting comes after one of the hottest and driest summers in Europe, record flooding, droughts, big fires, and hurricanes elsewhere in the world. A recent article by Sònia Sanchez in the Ara newspaper indicated a fewContinue reading “Global warming and the safety surfacing of Outdoor Playground, Fitness areas and Waterparks”

A few months have passed since April when I announced the agreement for the termination of my contract with CONICA AG. I also explained my lack of desire for an early retire and my decision to start activities as a Freelancer, to offer my services to other companies, within my areas of expertise. I alsoContinue reading “Rubberman is back”

I’m afraid I’m not very good at predicting the future.When, in December 2019, my mother-in-law came upset with what she had just heard on TV about a virus in Wuhan (China) and the confinements that had been decreed there, I reassured her that she should not worry because that virus would not reach Europe. BrilliantContinue reading “I’m not good at predicting the future”

In the vicinity of many outdoor playgrounds and at several schools there is usually a ball game area, protected by closed anti-vandal fences of wood or steel that include goal posts and baskets for various sports, in which children can practice multiple games with balls, with the advantage of fences keeping the ball in playContinue reading “Wetpour rubber for Multi-sport areas or MUGAs”

One of my readers asked me a few days ago about possible applications of recycled tires because he was evaluating a possible investment in a new recycling plant. I will only be talking about the rubber applications, but if you recycle tires, you can also get some applications and customers for the significant amount ofContinue reading “What can you do with recycled tires?”

Cities with streets that have trees are much more human and pleasant for their citizens. I am lucky to live in a city that has many of its streets with trees on the pedestrian sidewalks on both sides of the street or at walking paths and the feeling of pur air and the shaded spacesContinue reading “Wetpour Rubber application in tree pits”

Over the last few months I have written a couple of articles about the supply chain disruptions that were causing a lot of delivery delays and extra cost in near all industries including our flooring business. These disruptions were amplified as a result of the COVID pandemic although some problems started before.In the last articleContinue reading “And now a war in Europe?”

In most municipalities and all countries, investment in playgrounds remains more or less stable, with a certain number of renovations of old facilities and some development or urbanization of new residential spaces.However, there is one type of installation, the number of which is constantly growing in almost all countries. There are projects everywhere of outdoorContinue reading “Rubber flooring for Outdoor Fitness areas”

Driveways and patios have been paved traditionally with concrete, asphalt or tiles. Periodic repairs are needed as a consequence of corrosive liquids or water making a constant erosion of this paving what in combination with the strength of pedestrian or vehicle transit generates cracks with functional and visual impact. There are several specialized companies andContinue reading “Rubber paving on Driveways and Patios”