Whether you’re considering renovations to your facility, or looking into building a new facility, it is important to consider the highest priority ways to enhance the playing experience that also yields the greatest return on your investment
With 30 years of experience as the industry leader in designing and implementing indoor tennis lighting and liner solutions for ceiling and walls, Sports Interiors has established itself as the go-to source for questions and best practices to ensure your tennis playing experience is the highest quality. Whether you’re considering renovations to your indoor college tennis facility now or in the future, or looking into building a new facility entirely, it is important to consider the highest priority ways to enhance the playing experience at your facility that also yields the greatest return on your investment.
1. Lighting
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The goal of any indoor tennis lighting system should be to have the highest possible light levels with as little visual disruption to the players as possible.
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In order to achieve this, the best strategy is to look to organizations that specialize in, and have had extensive experience working in, a variety of indoor tennis structures and have provided customized solutions to meet the needs of the end users.
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Not all tennis facilities are the same, and not all expectations at each facility will be the same. It is important for you as a university to decide exactly what your expectations are of a new lighting system and what you want to achieve with the new system.
2. Liner System
- A liner system is a customized fabric designed to be installed on the ceiling and walls of athletic facilities and metal structure buildings to both improve the aesthetics of the space by hiding the ‘skeleton’ of the building while simultaneously increasing the light levels and improving the playing experience for your players and members.
- It has exceptional durability, needs no maintenance or follow up treatment, absorbs noise made during active use and provides energy saving opportunities through the additional installation of insulation.
- When thinking about who to work with on a liner installation at your facility we would highly recommend for you to consider choosing a company that has vast experience with this type of work, has their own crews who specialize in this unique and challenging type of installation, and to consider implementing insulation behind the liner for additional cost and energy savings.
3. Comprehensive Implementation
- Whether you are considering new lighting, liner, or both at your facility, a key consideration should be the implementation process.
- We understand that facilities are in use 24/7 throughout the year and the more your provider can do as part of the installation process the easier it is for coordination, communication, and implementation. Many organizations offer some services, with other parts being either subcontracted out of left up to the facility to manage.
- Sports Interiors has a designated operations team that handles all the planning, preparation, and communication leading up to the start of a project. Each project has a team of Sports Interiors personnel carefully planning the installation process to ensure that we minimize disruption to facility operations.
4. Indoor Tennis Facility Options
Building a new indoor tennis facility involves a lot of planning and especially fundraising. The good news for colleges and universities that are faced with the problem of accessibility to indoor tennis facilities is that there are more affordable alternatives to building a traditional steel-frame structure.
- Steel-frame Structure
- These buildings cost more to construct than other options, but they offer better insulation
- Air-Supported Structure
- Air-supported structures, commonly known as bubbles or domes, are relatively inexpensive and efficient to construct
- Fabric Structure
- Fabric frame structures are particularly useful if courts need to be covered all year-round. These structures are more expensive to install than air-supported options, but in the long run thanks to their superior insulation, they will offer substantial savings
Whether you're considering renovations to your indoor tennis facility now or in the future, we would like to offer our specific recommendation to help deliver the best indoor tennis experience for your teams. Let us know if we can discuss your facility and how we may be able to help!
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