Phased Playgrounds: How to Make Your Custom-Designed Commercial Playground Work With Your Budget

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When choosing playground equipment, budget is often a huge factor, if not the primary factor. What if it didn´t have to be? One of the best and most effective ways to have the playground equipment you want with a price tag you can handle is to Phase your playground, installing it in incremental stages.

Phasing a playground can be done in different ways:

You can Phase the composite structure

• To begin you must determine your first goal. How much money will be available for the first phase, second phase and so on?

• Once you have settled on a budget you must decide on the right playground for the children you are trying to accommodate. Would you like the structure to be ADA compliant or wheelchair accessible? What age range will the playground be designed for? How much area do you have to utilize?

• With these items specified, you may want to choose some play components that are most important to your first installation phase. A qualified playground designer can then help you incorporate items in successive phases that best fit the guidelines of your budget.

You can Phase the overall playground site

• Just as in phasing a composite structure you need to answer the same questions. Deciding on an itemized budget is the first step. Secondly, you must decide who the playground is for and thirdly a list of items you would like to include in the overall design. Area will be very important in this option, since freestanding components such as swings may be used.

• A qualified playground designer can help you choose a complete composite structure that fits your phase 1 budget.

• As time goes on and Phase 2 begins you can expand your playground environment with the addition of freestanding items such as climbers, swings, panels, and sand/water areas, as well as site amenities, including benches, picnic tables, awnings, shade, gazebos, and tricycle paths.

Both of the phasing methods can provide a way to soften the budgetary impact, avoiding the play-limiting compromises that are often made in such matters. Whether you are phasing a commercial playground structure, or a playground site as a whole, you are ensuring that every stage of your installation produces an environment that is both tailored to your budget as well as the immediate needs of a usable playground. Both of these phasing methods are a great way to make your budget work for you. As your community/school sees the playground environment grow, and their children enjoying it, you will find that raising the money for continuing phases to be much easier.

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