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Kompan UK

LI Webinar: Creating Healthier and Happy Communities: Outdoor Fitness with Local Benefits

Available to download on LI Campus

All around the world people of all ages and abilities are moving towards the outdoors to exercise. People’s wellbeing and mental health, especially after Covid, has never been more important. Offering a ‘free to use’ community fitness hub that everyone can access whatever their age or ability can positively contribute to this.

When it comes to community open air fitness areas, it is extremely important to include universal outdoor fitness facilities that cater to the most users. This could be stationary outdoor cardio equipment, or fitness facilities that require body weight such as calisthenics or cross training equipment. Outdoor strength training machines are now completely changing the game for outdoor fitness, as they have adjustable weights to ensure everyone can get a workout at their fitness levels.

Consultation can be key. Consulting the local community through the design process, where everyone has a say on what is required, can ensure the right scheme for everyone is installed to suit their various needs and goals. This avoids installing token pieces of equipment no one uses and wasting valuable funds. As an end result, carefully chosen equipment with fitness related apps allows for everyone to have a full and beneficial workout.

KOMPAN’s purpose is to create healthier and happier communities through impactful outdoor play and fitness solutions. We strive hard to provide our customers with products that deliver outstanding performance on all parameters.

KOMPAN was born from art.

Half a century ago, sculptor Tom Lindhardt observed children playing on his artistic creations. Tom switched up his design process to create playgrounds that were beautiful and timeless, like objects of art. Since then, KOMPAN’s mascot figure –Homo Ludens – has become the iconic mark of inventive quality that says, ‘this is the art of playing.’

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Vectorworks

What’s new in Vectorworks 2024 for Biodiversity

Available on LI Campus

Join Vectorworks for a new webinar taking you through the newest updates and exciting new releases you won’t want to miss.

Vectorworks 2024’s new user interface (UI) improvements combine a streamlined and logical reorganisation with available customisation options for tools and palettes that allow you to create a highly minimal UI. This can help to enlarge the model space and support your creative design process.

The View Bar has three different modes: regular, compact and auto-hide. Landmark 2024 introduces the Fence tool and Railing tool as two parametric objects with a high level of flexible customisation. Guided by the needs of professionals like you, the Fence tool can incorporate customised gates, posts, gravel boards and other landscape-specific features in both 2D and 3D. It interacts with the site model surface and has edit options that allow for great customisation when it comes to the size and shape of the main fence parts.

In Vectorworks Libraries, you will find examples of fence and railing styles which can be used straight away, or further refined to suit your design needs. Pre-formatted worksheets can be used for general reporting and materials specifications, allowing for a streamlined communication with contractors and clients. And speaking of 'communication with contractors', in Landmark 2024, you will benefit from the new concept of viewport styles, in which design stage specific settings can be saved as a resource and applied across the projects to generate viewports of a pre-defined style that communicate visually with various project stakeholders. The Site Model has a new function to create a graphically rich legend for site elevation and site slope analysis, giving you, the designer, the power to customise your graphic representation of site model data. The site model snapshot feature also has a powerful new freeze/unfreeze capability that will help you to showcase modifications of a site model across various project phases more easily.

By using Landmark Colors from a new industry specific colour palette, you can add the right tone and create graphics that represent the site model changes in detail. Improvements to shaded rendering options and camera effects enable a real-time production of visuals with a higher level of realism. Project sharing and data exchange has been simplified and enriched with additional functionalities – DWG Import/ Export options have been enhanced and you will also benefit from the newly introduced Excel referencing. With further update releases throughout the year, Landmark will continue enhancing the existing tools and creating workflows that facilitate environmental design and serve landscape professionals to design without limits.

Vectorworks, Inc. is an award-winning design and BIM software provider serving the architecture, landscape architecture and entertainment industries in 85 countries. Built with designers in mind since 1985, Vectorworks offers you the freedom to follow your imagination wherever it leads you. Vectorworks is a part of the Nemetschek Group.

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