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Design Essentials for Creating a Successful Spa Business in Your Health Club
For people to remember a spa and want to return to it, the spa must offer detailed programming and design of the spaces....
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Design Essentials for Creating a Successful Spa Business in Your Health Club
For people to remember a spa and want to return to it, the spa must offer detailed programming and design of the spaces....
How to Create Pools at Your Fitness Facility That Will Amaze Your Members
Ensure success by keeping these factors in mind when designing the perfect pool at your facility....
New ADA Requirements Affect Fitness Facilities
New requirements from a 2010 update of the Americans with Disabilities Act go into effect on March 15, 2012, and those requirements affect fitness facilities with and without pools....
Workout Spaces Should Entertain and Engage the Health Club Member
Your health club should have an exciting and engaging design where the equipment helps define the experience, the colors build excitement and the lighting creates energy....
Improving Indoor Air Quality in Your Fitness Center by Controlling VOCs
Decreasing volatile organic compounds in clubs is important because inhalation rates increase while exercising, which results in increased exposure....
The Basics of Adopting LEED Standards in Club Design
A number of recent changes have led to a resurgence in commercial buildings going green. At the forefront of this movement is Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), the benchmark in green building certification....
Designing Around New Technology in the Fitness Industry
New technology is having an effect on all aspects of gym design and operations, including equipment design, training aids, member experience and operational efficiency....
The Environmental Impact You Can Make in Your Health Club by Going Green
Eco-friendly practices that health club operators should consider implementing at their fitness facilities....
Seeing Green in Your Fitness Facility's HVAC System
You can improve your health club's HVAC system to make it more comfortable for members while being more "green."...
Bidding and Negotiations: Getting Your Money’s Worth
The pressure to control the cost to build a project has never been greater. The ability to forecast the final cost of a building project is not only important to the business plan, but it is absolutely essential to financing a project...
Affording Green Design: Rebates and Incentives
What is our responsibility as a health-based industry to the green movement, and what are the incentives? While we are all for the environment, we are, after all, in business to make money...
Lighting Can Be Part of Your Environmentally Friendly Gym Design
Green gym design includes lighting and how a few simple steps can help reduce your electricity bill and help the environment....
Environmentally Friendly Gym Design: Green Flooring
The concept of sustainability seems like a logical fit for the fitness industry but has only recently begun to gain attention....
Fit for the Individual: How to Design Personalized Routines
Today’s society is progressively productivity driven. From increasing your company’s ROI to maximizing the amount of time you spend with friends and family...
How to Design for the Optimal Cardio Experience
How many membership sales opportunities have been won or lost by your cardiovascular area? Modern members have seen the light. Gone are the days of long, drawn out cardio sessions where members count down the time...
How to Think Green For Your Fitness Facility
The green movement has arrived and is gaining tremendous momentum. Businesses are realizing this is a topic they must address. ...
