Standardisation – Commitment to Safe and High-Quality Sports Facilities
Our mission at ISP GmbH – Institut für Sportstättenprüfung is to ensure the safety of sports facilities and playgrounds – and not just through our services as a testing laboratory. We also want to leverage our vast experience and expertise in standardisation work. For this reason, we are a member of numerous national and international standardisation committees, where we play an active role in the continuous improvement and modification of standards.
We are involved in the following standardisation committees:
National committees
DIN 18032-2 – Sports hall flooring
The DIN 18032-2 standard deals with the composition and required technical properties of floors in gymnasiums and sports halls. It delineates the various types and construction methods of sports hall flooring, defines the technical requirements and specifies various test methods that can be used to test the necessary properties.
DIN 18032-3 – Safety against ball throwing in sports halls
The DIN 18032-3 standard deals with the safety against ball throwing of installations in a sports hall. First and foremost, the standard delineates the test procedures for evaluating the safety against ball throwing of specific installations and the loads they must be able to withstand.
DIN 18032-7 – Impact protection surface systems for walls
The DIN 18032-7 standard deals with impact protection surface systems for walls in gymnasiums and sports halls. It stipulates the requirements that must be met and the manner in which these requirements are to be verified.
DIN 18035-6 – Synthetic surfaces
The DIN 18035-6 standard establishes the requirements that synthetic surfaces for outdoor sports areas must meet with regard to composition, materials and properties. Moreover, it delineates the tests that are used to evaluate adherence to the designated properties.
DIN 18035-7 – Synthetic turf systems
The DIN 18035-7 standard deals with synthetic turf systems for sports grounds. It delineates possible construction methods and stipulates the technical properties that a synthetic turf pitch or a synthetic turf system intended for sports grounds must fulfil. In addition, it describes the set-up and procedure of individual tests that are used to analyse these properties.
International standardisation committees
CEN TC 217 – Sport surfaces
CEN is the European Committee for Standardisation and one of three major European standardisation organisations. The abbreviation TC stands for ‘Technical Committee’. TC-217 is the technical committee for sports surfaces. The remit of this committee and its subcommittees encompasses the domains of test methods, classifications and environmental aspects of indoor and outdoor sports surfaces. ISP – Institut für Sportstättenprüfung has a DIN representative on this committee.
We are also represented on three subcommittees:
CEN TC 217 WG 2 – Surfaces of sports halls
CEN TC 217 WG 6 – Synthetic turf areas
CEN TC 217 WG 11 – Test methods for sports surfaces
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Standardisation work is considered to be of paramount importance at ISP GmbH – Institut für Sportstättenprüfung. Our direct insight into and involvement in the creation and further development of national and international standards enables us to constantly optimise our services and contribute our experience and know-how to standardisation work. This synergy allows us to offer our customers the best possible range of services at all times.
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