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Each grade band gets its own zone on one campus drawing, with shade, surfacing and the accessible route from the school building door. Every order is planned back from the first day of your summer break.
The school range is the outdoor line sorted by the grades that use it, so playground equipment for schools is chosen zone by zone.
Ø114 mm galvanized, powder-coated posts · 19 mm HDPE panels · tamper-resistant 304 stainless fasteners. Construction details are on commercial playground equipment.
Each photo stands at the height of its age range: 2–5, 5–12, then 11–14 for middle school.
On every zone
Drawn into each grade's area on the same plan.
Supervision point
Clear view across zone B
A school playground is used in fixed recess periods, one group of grades at a time, watched from a supervision point. Each condition becomes a line on the plan.
You receive · 2D plan zoned by grade band and recess group · 3D renders of each zone
School playground design starts by assigning each grade band to a zone. The standard age zones, with the barrier and guardrail heights inside them, are set out on commercial playground equipment; this is how grades map onto them.
| Grade band | Zone on the drawing | Designed to | Equipment in the zone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 2–5 zone | ASTM F1487 / CPSC handbook | 2–5 structure, spring riders, full-bucket swings, ground-level panels |
| Kindergarten | 2–5 zone by default, or 5–12 zone at the school's choice | ASTM F1487 / CPSC handbook | Follows the zone chosen |
| Grades 1–5 | 5–12 zone | ASTM F1487 / CPSC handbook | Multi-deck structure, climbing nets, belt and nest swings, spinner |
| Middle school (ages 11–14) | Upper 5–12 zone plus fitness and obstacle area | ASTM F1487 for climbing and rope; ASTM F3101 / EN 16630 for fitness stations | Upper climbing and rope structures, outdoor fitness stations, obstacle rigs |
| Infant and toddler rooms | 6–23 month area | ASTM F2373 | See preschool and daycare playground equipment |
EN 1176 campuses are drawn to the requirements of the site.
Kindergarten sits where the 2–5 and 5–12 zones meet, so the school decides. It goes in the 2–5 zone by default, or the 5–12 zone if it shares a recess with grade 1.
Students aged 11 and 12 use the upper end of the 5–12 zone. Fitness stations are designed for users 13 and over; each sign carries the 13+ marking, and the school decides which grades use the fitness zone.
Each zone is bounded by the use zones of its equipment. Swings and spinners sit at zone edges. Fall heights set the surfacing thickness, to ASTM F1292 or EN 1177.
Structures are numbered zone by zone: S1-014 in the pre-K zone, S2-014 in grades 1–5. The same number is on the part, the drawing and the packing list.
You receive the 2D plan zoned by grade band, 3D renders of each zone, and the spec sheet and compliance document list keyed to the zones.
Once approved, the layout becomes the installation drawing and your structures are pre-assembled to it. See playground layout design and playground safety standards.
The same zoning rules produce three kinds of campus drawing.
Elementary school playground equipment in two zones: a pre-K and kindergarten zone with a 2–5 structure, spring riders and full-bucket swings, and a 5–12 zone for grades 1–5 with a multi-deck structure, nets, a swing bay and a spinner. The accessible route links both.
Upper climbing and rope structures, fitness stations and an obstacle rig, all on the same Ø114 mm steel system, so posts, footings and colors match across the site.
Zone A · by the door
Zone B · grades 1–5
Zone C · farthest outOne supplier · one project manager · one quotation · one container plan · structure numbers run zone by zone, so your installer builds one zone at a time
Middle school areas use three groups of equipment, all from our own workshops.
5–12 structures at the top of that zone, with 16 mm six-strand polyester rope over a steel wire core and aluminum and nylon connectors, replaceable section by section. See rope playground climbing nets.
Station sign · 13+Designed for users 13 and over. Each station sign carries the 13+ marking, and the school decides which grades use the fitness zone.
Same Ø114 mm galvanized, powder-coated steel as the play structures, with sealed bearings on moving stations. See outdoor fitness equipment.
Built from the ninja course line in the Ø114 mm galvanized, powder-coated system, in RAL colors chosen for the campus.
All three get their own use zones, surfacing and footing drawings, and ship in the same container plan as the younger zones.
Inclusive play is drawn into the campus layout from the first 2D plan, planned around ADA accessible-route principles.
Full inclusive options · inclusive playground equipment
Every grade on one campus drawing, from the pre-K door to the middle school fitness stations.
Zone A · Zone B · Zone C · one site plan
School playgrounds are installed while students are away, so every school order is planned back from your break dates: the first day of break sets every date before it.
SITE PLAN DUE
Send the date your break starts and the date students return. That is your installation window.
Working back from the first day of break:
This gives the date your site plan needs to reach us.
From the day the drawing is approved, work starts at both ends: your contractor on site, our workshops on the parts.
Footing detail drawings for every post are issued at drawing approval. Your contractor removes the old equipment, excavates and pours new footings, ready before the container reaches port.
S2-014 · first assemblyYour structures are assembled for the first time in our pre-assembly yard, to your approved drawing, before anything is packed. See how pre-assembly runs on the home page.
Parts numbered to your drawing, packed in installation sequence. Loading plan before shipment, photos of each container before sealing, packing list keyed to part numbers, zone by zone.
Your installer builds zone by zone from numbered parts already assembled once. Drawings, video guides and live video support follow the same numbers; an on-site supervisor is optional. See installation.
The break is spent installing, and parts are fitted and checked before they leave our yard.
Design office · 2D + 3D · 3 working days
Send your campus site plan, the grades on your campus and your recess groups. A 2D and 3D layout comes back within 3 working days.
What you receive at each approval step of a school order, and when it reaches you.
Anna · Sales ManagerSends the board, bid and tender files.Within 3 working days of your site plan
Sent by Anna
On request · with your quotation
The values copy line by line into a tender or an "or equal" comparison.
Sent by Anna
During production · before shipment
Sent by your project manager
With the shipment
Sent by your project manager
After installation
Kept on file by your project manager
Schools usually weigh us against two kinds of supplier: catalog playground brands such as Playworld and Kompan, and single-category exporters. The two right-hand columns describe typical practice for each kind of supplier, not any one company's program.
| School requirement | Run Playgrounds | Typical catalog brand | Typical single-category exporter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tender documents | Editable specification text and a data sheet for every item, with values from your quotation | Catalog-level documents and model-level data sheets | Product sheets for its own category |
| Records for the order | Coating, adhesion and wall-thickness readings for your own parts; third-party testing per project on request | Model-level documents | Varies by factory |
| Seeing your equipment | Factory visit during your production by appointment, or live video tour | Varies by brand | Varies by factory |
| Before shipment | Every outdoor structure pre-assembled, with video of your own structures and part numbers | Structures assembled from catalog components at the site | Varies by factory |
| Every grade on one drawing | Pre-K to middle school, fitness, obstacle rigs, shade and surfacing on one layout and one container plan | Layout from the brand's catalog modules | Its own category, with other categories from other suppliers |
| Installer and dealer bids | Project registered under the installer's or dealer's name; files unbranded or in their brand | Through the brand's dealer | Varies by factory |
Solid = ordered · dashed = drawn on the master plan, ordered later
Many schools build over more than one budget year. The whole campus is drawn as one master plan, then ordered in phases.
Tree · stays
Old structure · removed by school's contractor
Pole · stays
Drain · stays
Gate · stays
Door · route start
Mark the old equipment, trees, poles, drains, gates and building doors on your site plan or in site photos; the new zones are placed around what stays.
Most school playgrounds replace old equipment, so the split of work on site is set before the drawing is approved.
New footings go at the post positions on your approved layout. An old footing stays in use only when the school's engineer confirms it.
Every route uses the same tender files and installation package.
Same tender files · same installation package
General routes are on custom playground solutions and wholesale playground equipment.
Copy this list into your first message, and the first drawing already fits your campus.
