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GL EVENTS PROJECT, BRIGNAIS (FRANCE) LINDNER GROUP, ARNSTORF (GERMANY)

For almost 15 years, GL events Project supports all its clients in their needs of construction, renovation or extension of semi-permanent or permanent buildings: stadiums, athlete villages, arenas, sports facilities but also special projects such as the “Grand Palais Ephémère” and exhibition centres. Based on an off-site constructive principle and designed as a sum of various prefabricated modular elements the “modurable” construction concept is halfway between “modular” and “sustainable” and preserves the benefits and features of standard constructions.

www.gl-events.com

The Lindner Group is Europe‘s leading specialist in interior finishing, facades and insulation technology. The family business has more than 50 years of experience in „building with new solutions“. With its many years of experience and extensive range of ball impact resistant ceiling solutions, it offers added value for sports halls. Guaranteed safety, sophisticated design and integrated lighting - all from a single source.

www.lindner-group.com

JUSS SPORTS, SHANGHAI (CHINA) AKADEMISCHER SPORTVERBAND, ZURICH (SWITZERLAND)

Established in 2016, Juss Sports claims the leading role in the innovation, promoting and development for Shanghai’s sports industry. Juss Sport operates multiple businesses in sports, such as event asset owners and promoters, athlete management, stadium management, stadium construction, sport investment, and sports technology services. It also holds ownership of the Shanghai Sharks basketball team which is the only professional club of the CBA in Shanghai. The company produces seven international sporting events including F1 Heineken Chinese Grand Prix, and ATP’s Rolex Shanghai Masters. It also manages several iconic Shanghai stadiums. Since 1939, the Akademischer Sportverband Zürich (ASVZ), a university sports association, has been organising voluntary university sport for the five universities in the canton of Zurich with their 75,000 students and around 15,000 other eligible persons. To this end, it operates several sports centres at the university campuses and also provides an extensive programme of outdoor activities. Thanks to the diversity of its offering and its 1.8 million visits annually, the ASVZ has broad experience of a great number of sports stagings, ranging from martial arts training in the dojo to group fitness lessons in the large sports hall and running events with 14,000 participants.

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NÜSSLI, ROTH (GERMANY) ANTON PAAR SPORTSTEC, GRAZ (AUSTRIA)

Event structures from NÜSSLI open up new scope for your ideas and visions. We supply you with all the structures you need for your event from a single source. The constructions are assembled using our modular building systems developed in-house. You’ll be impressed by their cost-effectiveness, sustainability and compliance with the highest safety standards. Flexibly extendable and quick to dismantle, they are hard to beat in terms of versatility. When it comes to the erection of temporary and permanent structures, we are the right choice. Such structures can be spectator stands, temporary halls and stadiums, stages, event structures, floodlights and entertainment lighting as well as classic hall structures put up to tight deadlines. In addition to design, erection and dismantling, we can also take overall responsibility for your project if requested.

www.nussli.com

Assessment-based training & scouting: skills.lab is the leading international brand for high-tech football training systems. By combining physical activity with advanced measuring and 360° display technology, all skills.lab training systems enable to precise measure and improve the technical and cognitive skills of a player. Clubs such as FC Bayern Munich, TSG Hoffenheim and Lech Poznań rely on skills.lab training systems to develop their players.

skills.lab is a brand of Anton Paar, an international company for high-precision measurement and laboratory instruments based in Graz, Austria with more than 3,600 employees worldwide.

skills-lab.com

GEMEINDE BELP, (SWITZERLAND) BINNIE & ASSOCIATES, BURNABY (CANADA)

The real estate division of the Belp municipal authority is responsible for the operation, management and maintenance of the public buildings such as school, sports and leisure facilities.

The area of responsibility also includes the location rental for a wide variety of events: ballroom in the castle, two vaulted cellars, congress halls, meeting rooms, gymnasiums and sports fields.

www.belp.ch

Led by Catherine Eiswerth and Blair Arbuthnot, Binnie’s Sports and Recreation team design public spaces that breathe life into communities and improve local livability. They clame to be industry leaders in outdoor recreation design and construction management in Canada. Their multidisciplinary approach utilizes a wide range of services to deliver complex projects from under one roof. Over the last 20 years, they have been a part of hundreds of sports facility projects including synthetic turf fields, natural grass sports fields, running tracks, and sport courts.

www.binnie.com

HESSISCHER FUSSBALL-VERBAND, FRANKFURT AM MAIN (GERMANY) LARCAN, PORT MACQUARIE (AUSTRALIA)

The Hessischer Fussball-Verband e.V. (HFV) is the association of football-playing clubs in Hesse. The purpose of the HFV is to spread and promote the sport of football in Hesse and to support the clubs in the performance of their sporting duties.

To this end, the association organises championship and cup fixtures, and fields and coaches selected teams from Hesse. In addition, the HFV is responsible for the initial and further training of match officials as well as the training of players at junior and senior level. The association‘s tasks also extend to the licensing of coaches and trainers as well as their initial, further and advanced training. The HFV monitors football matches for their adherence to international football rules.

www.hfv-online.de

Larcan is a unique Australian based organisation that specialises in the sectors of leisure, aquatics, recreation, community, aged-care and not-for-profit. Larcan is passionate about having more people actively engaged in physical activity to help them live happier and healthier lives regardless of their age, location, ability, or gender.

Larcan specialises in feasibility studies, providing expert operational advice on design, driving participation through inclusiveness, and overall business improvement support. The Larcan team can support a project anywhere from winning a tender, feasibility to funding right through to the first day of operation, continuous improvement and beyond.

www.larcan.com.au

DAVID BURNS, SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA) ARI PENTTILÄ, OULAINEN (FINLAND)

David has worked in the leisure, health and well-being industry in Australia and the UK for over 21 years, in roles spanning local government, peak bodies, private sector and the social economy. He is operating from two platforms: DB Consulting works with government, peak bodies and universities on specific commissions, and Collective Leisure co-creates programs that work for communities through a „systems“ approach. Being Australia’s first social enterprise leisure management company Collective Leisure is focused on providing education, services, and opportunities to those most in need. Ari’s career in the ice sports facility industry started in 1989. He acts as Managing Director of Prorink International LTD. He recently focused on technical background information to ice sport-related projects. Ari is the author of the book „Lex Aqua and all about ice“ - a research report on ice quality for the past ten years. The book concentrates on facts that affect the ice quality. This was critical for designing a new product: the Closed-Loop Water Treatment for reusing the ice scrape from the ice surface, which improves the ice quality and increases energy savings.

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ARCTIC SPAS®, HARTLEBURY (UK) CITY OF LEIPZIG, GERMANY

Coldtub (Arctic Spas® Ltd.) manufactures and supplies cold water immersion tanks & pools for professional athletes, sports therapists and residential users. The company has been supplying the UK / European market with cold water immersion solutions since 2010. The Coldtub products offer recovery solutions not just for low temperature applications, but also high temperature (up to 40° Celsius). The products also feature (as standard) an automated sanitising system which can be monitored remotely, as well as an online app where individuals can input their body specifications and receive detailed options on which temperatures and time frames will work best for their desired recovery. Leipzig is a growing, vibrant city with a population of 600,000 and a great sporting tradition. Trade, commerce, science, sport, culture and tourism have shaped its history to this day. It is widely known as a trade fair city, a city of music, a university city, and above all as a city of sport with Bundesliga football team RB Leipzig as its international flagship.

By becoming a member, the city of Leipzig hopes to gain new inspiration for the ongoing development of its sports facilities and playing areas, as well as for its public spaces. The city of sport looks forward to exchanging its experience with other cities and members of the network.

www.coldtub.co.uk www.leipzig.de

OLYMPIA WORLD, INNSBRUCK (AUSTRIA)

Olympiaworld stands for a unique top location in the heart of the Alps. The unique centre for sports, culture and business in the Alpine region offers all event organisers, sports promoters, companies and clubs the perfect framework conditions. In addition to its function as the largest training and competition centre in western Austria for leisure, amateur and competitive sports, the Olympiaworld is known as an event centre for major sporting events, concerts, shows, trade fairs, galas, conferences and TV productions as well as workshops and banquets.

www.olympiaworld.at

KAZAKHSTAN ASSOCIATION OF SPORTS FACILITIES, NUR-SULTAN CITY (KAZAKHSTAN)

The KASF organization’s goals are to contribute to the creation of high-quality sports infrastructure, to increase the level of equipment, technical data base, and sports infrastructure both within the Olympic movement and physical culture as a whole, to integrate cutting-edge methods for managing sports facilities based on modern approaches to digitizing processes and performance, and to provide the population and athletes with safe equipment and technical data base.