Leisure Facility Management II BRE306

Learn to manage your staff effectively! Half of this course focuses onfacility design and the other half on managing maintenance of a facility. Students are assumed to have some broad experience or knowledge in Leisure Facility Management (Managing daily use iscovered in far more detail in the first course, but not in this one). Course Structure

Part 1: This course relates to the management and maintenance of both indoor and outdoor facilities and equipment, including swimming pools, locker rooms, buildings, gymnasiums, and sports turf. Content includes monitoring the condition of equipment, routine maintenance programming and simple repair procedures.

Part 2: This course develops a manager\'s ability to participate effectively as part of a design team for major works, or to plan and direct contrators in the development of minor facilities. It covers:

• Ergononmic considerations
• Managing construction work
• Design of sportsgrounds
• Design of indoor facilities
• Design of gymnasium equipment

Aims

• Identify work tasks involved in the maintenance of recreation facilities.
• Manage the condition of recreational water facilities, including swimming pools.
• Manage the condition of a sports turf facility, including monitoring and maintaining the condition of turf.
• Manage the condition of a gymnasium, including monitoring the condition of structures and equipment.
• Manage the condition of a public building, including monitoring.
• Explain design factors for recreation facilities.
• Explain the concept of ergonomics related to recreation facility design.
• Explain the design of an outdoor recreation facility used in the industry.
• Explain the design of an indoor recreation facility.
• Arrange moveable equipment and furnishings in a way to maximise predetermined criteria, including safety and function, within the physical confines of a facility.
• Explain the design of fitness equipment.
• Develop a management strategy for the construction of part, or all, of a recreation facility.

Half of this course focuses onfacility design and the other half on managing maintenance of a facility. Students are assumed to have some broad experience or knowledge in Leisure Facility Management (Managing daily use iscovered in far more detail in the first course, but not in this one).