Buyer guide
How to budget a tennis court resurfacing
What drives the price, what public bid tabs in our five states actually show per court, and how to get a budget number you can put in next year's plan.
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Buyer guides for court owners
Written for the people who have to put a court project in a budget and defend it: parks directors, facilities directors, athletic directors, club managers and board members. Facts come from public bid results, the manufacturers and the ASBA manuals, and every figure is cited.
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Resurface or rebuild: how to decide
Most cracked courts can be resurfaced. Some cannot. Here is how we tell the difference, and what each path has cost other public owners.
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Post-tensioned concrete courts explained
Why the best courts in Texas and Oklahoma sit on a slab held in compression by steel cables, what that costs other public owners, and what to ask a builder.
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Converting tennis courts to pickleball
One tennis court holds four pickleball courts. The conversions that last are planned like new courts; the ones that crack in two years were painted like a parking lot.
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How public agencies can buy court work through cooperative contracts
A cooperative contract lets a public owner buy court work on a purchase order instead of running a bid. Here is how it works, which vehicles EliteTrax can deliver through, and the steps.
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