Real
pioneers in
Squash in France, INTEC Squash developed as soon as the appearance of the first
courts a series of new techniques in Europe: since 1979 these courts arestill in
use in one of the most dynamic clubs as well on the sportingl and commercial
level: Rouen Squash has indeed more than 35.000 players per year on 7 courts,
that is to say 8 players everyhour!
Each of the 7 courts is in fact the prototype of a new process tested by INTEC
Squash.
The experimentation of the techniques suggested, the experience gained in
the completion of more than 35O courts in France an abroad, up to the perfect
knowledge of the exploitation of the equipment make INTEC Squash, not only one
serious supplier but also a highly qualified partner:
- In the phase of the preparatory project for the study of the complex,
the number and the location of the courts
- In the choice of the building systems, coordination, the dates, and the
reservations
- In the follow-up of the execution in relation to the project superintendent
and, in close cooperation with the future user, during the development of the
project until the opening day, for the profit survey, the financial arrangements
and the estimated operating statement.
Thus, from innovations in achievements, in the most varied sites of reception,
such as camp-sites or private or public sportclubs, company-unions or
hotel complexes, mountain or sea resorts, in France or abroad, INTEC Squash has
acquired an outstandind experience and an exceptional reliability .
The control of INTEC Squashcourts by the
n°1French company in building- insurance has awarded them a sufficient
level of quality to clear them without reserve to give them a decennial
guarantee on the installation and all the components.
VERTICAL COATING OF PLAYING SURFACES INTEC Squash
ACCESSORIES FOR COURTS INTEC Squash
ESTIMATE OF CONSTRUCTION
DIMENSIONS of a COURT OF SQUASH:
CARCASS WORK HEAVY CASTINGS AND FINISHED DIMENSIONS:
FRONTWALL
Carcass work Heavy castings :
width 6,6O ml
height. 6ml/surface min. 39,60m2
width of completed court 6,4O ml
Frontwall height with line of game: 4,57ml
HEIGHT UNDER CEILING:
6 ml (ideal)
5,35ml (minimum)
5,60 ml (recommended) court completed
+ lights 25 cm env.
+floor 7 cm.
BACKWALL HEIGHT Glazed
2,204 ml Built 2,40 ml:
starting from the GROUND CONCRETE (to erase, flagstone or cover)
height of the wall: inside measure in court: 2,134 ml
height floating floor: 70 mm.
Height of lines of game to be added to the height of the wall: 50 mm.
SIDE WALL
carcass work must be
at least 2Ocm over the dimensions courts fcompleted.
Surface carcass work.
minis. 36m2
length carcass work
9,95ml mini
length of court 9,75ml
GLASS BACKWALLS INTEC Squash
The translucid backwallst INTEC Squash are made from tempered glass panels 12 mm thick of the Securit type, presenting white lines anti reflectionlines serigraphies in the lower part; these volumes of glass are assembled with metal anodic aluminium parts insulated from the glass with Teflon joint; fixings are ensured by stainless screws and bolts in the thickness of the glass inside the court and coming out outside; in the same way the lock with latch on one side and child-safety-handle outside; the central door stands on aon a brass rotating part and a threshold bar ensuring a greater longevity thus, whereas a hinge connects it to the upper part of the wall without any extra weight for the side volume.
INTEC Squash presents the broadest choice in the market for the equipment
of the back walls.
Thus theready made solutions suggested are as follows :
* CHAMPIONSHIP WALL (R): see photo below: entirely
glazed, this wall is the most usually installed, the prettiest and also
the most economic one: consisting of 2 great volumes rigidified by two
stiffeners, with 1 central door, and, on both sides, 2 large glass stiffeners.
Protruding outside the court, the width of the stiffeners in the corridor 30 cm.
INTEC Squash replaces also any elements broken of any other
glasswall brand name,doors and volumes. In the same way we do renovation
and setting in conformity of glazed walls to the standards, in particular for
the replacement of plastic wall by a glazed wall as above.
Test of resistance under control of a lawyer
The floor of a squashcourt must be flexible,
non-skid and of a pale colour. This is why wood is the material generally
proposed, a white and hard wood.
Unfortunately it is an expensive material.
It is also a material sensible to dampness.
The player is also sensitive the consecutive shock- waves to the
violent impact of the foot on the ground must be without harmful consequences
for the sportsman.
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* blade studded on tie bar * tie bar fixed on sole * sole stuck on concrete |
Also the floor of a court of squash must be treated as the most delicate
one among the sport floorss.
INTEC Squash thus chose the most constraining options.
For that, nothing less than one tie bar every 25 cm is set in order to ensure
the robustness of the lot
(whereas the standard requires only 35 cm).
The parquet-wood-panels are laid in the English traditional way;
each tie bar is assembled in the workshop with a strip footing with closed cells,
both time suple and anti-humidity, able to absorb the shock waves of the most
violent impacts without secondary vibration: thus 264 meters linear of absorbing
material ensures acoustic comfort but also protection against the tendinitises
and fatigue, in the same way the protection of the whole floor underneath
against moisture by capillarity; 15 years of experimence in this single type of
assembly make it possible to affirm that floating floor INTEC Squash is the best
sporting ground existing until today..
The visible face can be built up by different wood varieties: the necessary
facing must be hard and white: INTEC Squash recommends beech as the
hardest and clearest wood, ina pasted way to ensure a perfect
insensitivity tofloor dampness and for the best /ratio price/ quality; massive
plate of wear 8mm and total thickness to stud 22mm.
In massive or pasted version, beech 1st choice thickness 23mm, or realized with
other in the same way machined gasolines (GRAY French CEDRE OR ROSE, BILINGA of
African origin, or EUCALYPTUS of origin the EEC) parquet floors INTEC Squash
enjoys the same guarantee and same serious while respecting the international
standards of Squash, but especially the more constraining standards as regards
sporting grounds.
The completion is ensured with a fine sandpapering, the only real and
durable non-skid treatment; For the players, the grip is real and perfectly safe.
The parquet floor thus built is then in conformity with the recommendations of
associations of players; obviously to Squash standards too.
On request, the new surface, or in restoration old surface after sandpapering,
will be able to receive the application of a "sealer" a non-skid varnish of
surface in one layer, ensuring at a relatively modest cost the access without
disorder to the shoes with black or hard soles of the jogging type (advised
for the municipal courts or club without filtering of the players at the
reception).
These supports can then durably receive the application of thegame lines (cf
accessories Rιsiligne (r) of INTEC) with a 2 years'garantee. No adhesive tape!
VERTICAL
COATING OF SURFACES OF PLAY INTEC Squash
Constructive diagram
structure carcass work heavy castings : breeze
blocks or rammed concrete
setting coat or of flatness cement bases
specific INTEC Squash, washable, plain white coating or pastel
colour
lines of play sharp Rιsiligne (r) red
COATING INTEC Squash (r)
Various phases :
ROUGH MASONRY
COATING CEMENT
SYNTHETIC EMULSION
1st fiberglass reinforced layer
2nd fiberglass reinforced layer
3rd fine layer
LINES OF game RESILIGNE(r)
The process suggested belongs to a "traditional" mode of realization. It
is the cheapest process; it offers the best qualities for the game, as well as
the best guarantees.
And this in opposition to the method
of construction "prefabricated" which calls upon a shaping of panels in
the workshop, a transport and an implementation on the premises which requires
if not a support built at least a frame of reception; the unit is always more
expensive, because everywhere in the world it is the masonry which is the
cheapest, the 10 years guarantee offered with the traditional method is often
shorter with the panel system, the compactness of the walls required by the game
of squash is obviously weaker in a prefabricated construction than in a concrete
made wall, the comfort in the game in all cases always lesser...
INTEC Squash presents nevertheless two prefabricated systems
recommended if the weight or the speed of execution is required. Cf self
standing court or vertical playing surfaces in panels.
(description, commercial references and estimate on request).
COATING INTEC Squash: It is a modern technique made up of resins in aqueous
phase; the multi-layer complex reinforced with glass fibres in the heavy layers,
is a pure synthetic emulsion. With the differences of the coatings cement, there
is no risk of cracking up; moreover the completed complex is washable: it thus
keeps its whiteness with time, therefore all its playing quality.
It can also be tinted with the desired color but the standard in squash and the
advise of the club owner go in the same direction: it seems best to make
it in the clearest possible color.
ACCESSORIES of SHORT INTEC Squash
Vertical surfaces of game are coated in white to
the lines of game: on each side wall as maybe on the backwall if it is not
glazed; on the sound plate to the upper line of game. On the ground, the
floating floor is also equipped with lines of game.
The accessories with the equipment of the court are thus:
- lines of game RESILIGNE (r) and plates sound INTEC Squash
LINES OF GAME RESILIGNE (r) Of INTEC
Squash
They are in-laid on site with resin for the vertical coating, painted on
the floor .
This choice is the one of longevity in relation with a reasonable cost:
this compromise is gaining with the exploitation compared to the lines of game
for the walls made with wooden or plastic profiles, expensive and completely
useless, with the adhesive tape for the ground, unpleasant to the eye as soon as
sthey come off, and requiring to be redone very often.
SOUND PLATES INTEC Squash.
Meant to announce any
faulty ball, sound plates INTEC Squash resound at the slightest
touch: they are hung on the pediment with above the parquet floor.
Their profile makes it possible to hold the line of red game in the upper part
.A woodencleat comes to block them against the pediment; anti- deformation
material makes it possible for the plates to resist to the kicking of the
players.
Three plates by court are necessary; each one of them is independent and can be
used as an advert-billboard with the agreement of the club.
Finally the metal of the plates is tstainless; beige painting is applied in a
fine layer twith a spray , then heated in an oven so as not to peel off.
ESTIMATE OF CONSTRUCTION
The construction of a court includes the carcass work heavy castings, i.e. reception facilities, the installation of the courts as, behind, parts of the club, corridors, steps, cloakrooms etc... This estimate is made by a quantity surveyor quantity surveyor starting from the plans of anarchitect. It is for this reason approximate and with all the reserves of use; here are nevertheless some figures coming from former works:
carcass work heavy castings: shed like roof, building insulated double skin, sewage,water,electricity and various services included: 600 /M2
cloakrooms facilities: from 300 to 1.500 / m2 according to the quality of the desired services
club house facilities not specialized: approximately 300 /m2
Required surfaces by activities:
Fitness: 600 m2 desirable
Squash: for 6 courts approximately 500 m2
Badminton: for 8 courts approximately 1000 m2
that is to say an ideal total for a viable structure in many large French cities of approximately 2.000 m2 on the ground and 2.700 m2 useful and an approximate total investment of 1.500 K.
The installation of a court of Squash includes lighting, ventilation, air-conditioning or heating, the carcass work heavy castings specific to the 3 or 4 walls and the possible roof, the special coating squash of vertical surfaces of game, the floating floor and the possible glazed back wall.
1. The masonry 3 or 4 walls bricked up to the lines of game (breeze blocks and surfacing ) and on the ground a possible cover, represents an average budget of 4.600 /court for 3 adjacent courts.
2. Specific installation "squash" coats parquet floor, wall glazed and accessories of court, is worth approximately 15.000 H.T at the average price of the market. (NB: a single court in assembly in period charged will be much more expensive):
coating from 2.300 to 4.600 HT
floor from 2.800 to 6.900 HT
sound plates from 150 to 760 HT
door with the glazed back wall from 950 to 5.500 HT
3. Lighting for a court costs on average 1.500 all subjections included.
4. The heating ventilation or air-conditioning can be dealt with from 1.500 to 3.000 /court.
In short, the construction of a COURT of squash represents an average budget of 23.000 HT the glazed court heated ventilated lit, for a total realization of 3 courts 29.000 HT for an insulated court and a service including the best options 15.000 HT the court ,4 full walls,lit,ventilated ans masonry included . ( average Prices of the market met to confirm according to the final description, building of reception in addition.)
The installation of a court of badminton represents the following approximate costs:
Net Posts : from 50 to 450 per court according to the models, numbers of courts, and ballasts desired
Floor covering: synthetic welded carpet from 2700 to 53.000 HT
Floating parquet floor with layout set of doubles: from 5300 to 8.400 HT according to options
To Which must be added the cost of a cement layer on the ground on the ground, lighting according to the number of courts and the building itself for approximately 600 HT /m2.
