Construction How to Determine the Feasibility of a Playground Area Many community leaders at schools, parks departments, child care centers, and other agencies often wonder if they should rally resources for new or improved… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Butch-Defillippo
Playground Is Your Playground Designed for Your Specific Needs? It Can and Should Be! I have few regrets from my years of working for municipal governments, but I do have a silly one to share with you. As a Superintendent of Parks, I was tasked… Updated Dec 9, 2022 Butch-Defillippo
Playground How Design Relates to Play Throughout my nearly five decades of designing play apparatus and spaces, I have been really gratified to see kids play on the results of my efforts. These… Updated Mar 2, 2026 Jay Beckwith
Nature Naturalized Playgrounds Among the many improvements in playground design over the last decade is an important movement toward incorporating more natural materials into the play space.… Updated Oct 14, 2023 Ipema Association
Rubber Playground Surfacing Standards critical fall height (CFH): a measure of the impact attenuation performance of a playground surface or surfacing materials; defined as the highest… Updated Oct 14, 2023 George Sushinsky
Parenting What Parents Really Look for at the Playground It is no surprise why kids love going to the playground. Being outside, combined with the adventure of all the elements a playground has to offer, it is the… Updated Dec 7, 2022 Scott Hornick
