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New member: Lexgames, Reykjavik (Iceland)

Lexgames is an importing and building company for urban sports and outdoor playgrounds. Founded in 2010, it has been consulting municipalities in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland.

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New member: Marcin Herra, Warsaw (Poland)

Marcin is CEO of the Arena Gliwice, being the second largest indoor arena in Poland. Before that, he managed PL.2012 and acted as chief coordinator and organizer of the Polish preparations for UEFA Euro 2012. As the Deputy Director of the Polish Handball Federation, he was responsible for the preparations of the EHF EURO 2016.

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Cor Van Raay YMCA at the ATB Centre in Lethbridge Alberta

The ATB Centre has within its scope a very large aquatics program, a fitness centre for strength training and aerobics, a large field house with six gymnasia and a 250-metre running track surrounding multiple studios, multi-purpose and meeting rooms, a youth room, children’s indoor playground, a childcare, physiotherapy, and retail food vendors.

IAKS Austria’s website goes live

Future events, the documentation of activities and portraits of particularly successful sports and leisure facilities in Austria: all this and much more can be found at www.oesterreich.iaks.sport – specifically tailored to Austria.

New member: Danish Association for the Technology of Swimming Pools

The Danish Association for the Technology of Swimming Pools works strategically with a wide range of technical, operational and political tasks. It aims to influence norms, standards and guidelines regarding both technical and safety issues.

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TAC cash register system in use

Swiss Holiday Park, one of the largest holiday and leisure resorts in Switzerland, was looking for a comprehensive software solution capable of managing sports activities and wellness services as well as the entire access control system. The All-In-One visitor solution with access management from TAC | The Assistant Company was the perfect solution.

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Multifunctional arena built by SMC2 opened

The arena was spanned by an intricate structure of glued-laminated timber and steel covered by a textile membrane. The advantage of this is that the interior of the arena is illuminated with daylight thanks to the membrane’s transparency. By its very nature, the building’s textile roof additionally reduces reverberation and ensures optimum acoustics in the arena.

New member: Zumtobel Group AG, Zurich (Switzerland)

The Zumtobel Group is an international lighting group and a leading supplier of innovative lighting solutions, lighting components and allied services. With its core brands Zumtobel, Thorn and Tridonic, the Group offers its customers all over the world a comprehensive portfolio of products and services.

New member: Stadtsportbund Köln and Sportjugend Köln, Cologne (Germany)

As the umbrella organisation of sport in Cologne, Stadtsportbund (Municipal Sports Federation) is the partner, contact , advocate and mouthpiece for its eight district associations, 33 sports associations, around 640 clubs and, of course, the roughly 282,000 active athletes in the 86 districts of the city.

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Activity area on top of a waste-to-energy plant

CopenHill, also known as Amager Bakke, is opening as a new breed of waste-to-energy plant topped with a ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall, embodying the notion of hedonistic sustainability while aligning itself with Copenhagen’s goal of becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral city by 2025.

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What makes activity areas successful?

Lessons learned at the 26th IAKS Congress on day 4: Everybody wants to connect with a youthful and hip audience in at urban sports facilities and to create inspiring urban landscapes for sport and physical activity. If done with consideration and creativity, urban sports environments can create landmarks for both the local population as well asand visitors. Presentations available for download

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Big turnout at the CONICA basecamp

CONICA presented itself at the FSB trade fair in Cologne with a very special fair stand and talented young athletes. The CONICA basecamp in the form of a alpine chalet that you would normally find at an altitude of around 1,600 m proved to be a real crowd-puller.

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Stainless-steel swimming pools

Since September 2018, the ageing pool in Gänserdorf near Vienna has been partially torn down and rebuilt. Beyond its core competence – the construction of swimming pools – Berndorf Bäderbau also assumes the role of general contractor and bears the full responsibility for construction right through to turnkey delivery.

New IAKS member: X2 Architects, Huddinge (Sweden)

Learn to move, move to learn. X2 Architects wants the world to be everybody's playground. X2 Architects deliver designs for outdoor landscapes as well as indoor solutions for multi-sport uses such as parkour, play, gymnastics, OCR, climbing, and dance.

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New member: Doug Wournell, Vancouver BC (Canada)

Doug has over 25 years of architectural experience exclusively in sport and recreation facilities. He spent ten years competing internationally in track & field team. The combination of Doug’s sport background and his professional experience allows him to move comfortably between the boardroom and the locker room.

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2020 IAKS Study Trip to Greater Vancouver

The 2020 IAKS Study Trip will provide international delegates with an opportunity to visit one of the largest concentrations of IAKS-recognized projects anywhere. The travel package costs 265 euros for IAKS members (315 euros for non-members) and includes:

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Meeting the needs of today’s and future users

Lessons learned at the 26th IAKS Congress on day 3: Multi component indoor recreation facilities are a typology of sports halls which are well established in North America and in the UK, showing potential for new approaches in Europe. Presentations available for download.

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ASB GlassFloor awarded

With a total of five awards, the company has been honoured for various products and projects – a perfect affirmation for the strategic direction, motivation for the future and a confirmation of the rule that “great ideas prevail”. “Innovations are born when modern technology and inspiration come together” – that is the wording of the ISPO Award 2019 Jury’s justification.

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