Play By Design
Company Profile – 2022
Table of Contents
4. Company Profile: Key Staff / Capabilities / References / Warranties
7. Innovation: Materials / Design / Components
10. Beyond ADA Accessibility
15. Architecture by Design
17. History by Design
20. The Magic Within…
21. “Design Day”
24. References / Portfolio Highlights
40. Contact Us
Key Staff
Dennis Wille ADA Specialist Senior Designer
Lee Archin Play By Design Co-Founder Designer, Project Manager, Construction Consultant 25 Years Experience (18 years at Leathers & Associates) Dave Iannello Play By Design Co-Founder Senior Designer 35 Years Experience (26 years at Leathers & Associates) Barry Segal Construction Consultant Project Manager 45 years experience 200+Design Days (30 years at Leathers & Associates)
Samantha McAdams Assistant Project Manager 5 years experience 5 Design Days.
28 years experience 400+ Design Days (20 Years at Leathers & Associates ) Lisa DeShano Senior Designer Project Manager 14 years experience 50+ Design Days (5 years at Leathers and Associates)
Mary Archin Marketing & Development
20 years experience
Laura Sehn Senior Designer ADA Specialist
Nate Bishop Construction Consultant Former landscaper
15 years experience
20 years experience
Company Capabilities
Play By Design is a fully insured, Limited Liability Company (LLC) and with nationally recognized Certified Playground Safety Inspectors (CPSI). We are knowledgeable of ASTM, ADA and CPSI guidelines and laws as they apply to playgrounds. In addition to making the safety of our structures a priority, our professional team offers significant expertise in all-abilities design, community build, hybrid community build, and overall project management. • Project Management: You will be assigned and Project Manager with considerable design experience that best suits your community. • Organization: We will help you secure and develop your playground steering committee. • Communication: Our team is available after hours, on weekends and even in person if that’s what the collective team needs. • Build expertise: Our construction consultants are prepared to empower the volunteers to completion. • Flexibility: In three decades, we have adapted and upgraded as our world does. Please refer to our build methods below. • A Record of Accomplishment: We are dedicated to giving each client the best of what we can to provide excellent service, innovative design and safety for all. You can expect our team to walk you through each step of our process to reach your goals and milestones. After the build, you can rely on us to help you with anything that should arise!
Warranties At Play By Design, we provide top notch customer service. We will be your constant source of support and guidance during the design, planning, and playground build. We will also be your one and only call for maintenance and warranties for your playground structure and equipment post-build. Our maintenance department will work directly with the manufacturers for all your replacement and maintenance requests. No need to wait on hold with multiple suppliers, Play By Design does all the leg work for you.
All manufactured equipment and our building materials come with a warranty. These warranties will available for your review upon request.
Play By Design provides full service and support for the life span of your playground structure.
Innovation: Materials Recycled Plastic Timber Building materials and playground components have gone though a series of major advances since the original community playgrounds were built. We take our position of creative leadership and quality control seriously and align with vendors that reflect our values for innovation, quality, reliability, affordability and longevity. Gone are the days of sanding, sealing and staining wooden playgrounds. Say goodbye to splinters and rotting wood! Our playgrounds today are built with recycled plastic timber that is rated for sea water and extreme weather . From Hawaii to Alaska, we have had continuous success utilizing this product in our playgrounds. Additional benefits are as follows:
• The look and feel of wood without the unwanted maintenance • Ecologically sound • Sturdy structural plastic posts in various shapes and sizes • Comes in a variety of colors • Has a warranty of 25 years • Textured high-density polyethylene is strong and UV stabilized
• Stain and graffiti resistant • Will not splinter or crack
Innovation: Components We have spent many years cultivating relationships with our playground component vendors based on quality, affordability, innovation and warranty’s. Our team actively seeks out the latest in innovation and accessibility and that can bring us overseas as well. On the following pages, please enjoy the visual highlights of some of the newer and most popular components that we incorporate into our designs.
Music!
Beyond ADA: Accessibility
Community build, to us, means far more than playground design, we view it as an opportunity to include the entire community in a process that unites, educates and empowers its members from start to finished product. Our designers are dedicated to all abilities play. We work with therapists, parents and teachers to ensure that the needs of all children are met and that often brings us to far exceed current ADA guidelines. We believe that inclusivity is not limited to the children that play on the playground, but also includes the adult caregivers that
are with them. In the following pages, we provide an example ”ADA Narrative”, one that we would submit to accompany your redesign.
In the past 20 years, we have seen considerable upgrades the quality and innovation of playground components especially in the area of ADA equipment. We can now offer our communities affordable equipment from both made in the USA and from abroad. Since opening, Play By Design has been dedicated to exceeding the accessibility guidelines in our designs while remaining within budget . Double wide ramping is something that we have been incorporating for almost a decade and it allows two wheelchairs to pass freely. Below is a list of some highlighted equipment, but we are always on the look-out for new equipment and ideas.
ADA Design: Development
Accessible equipment can often come with a higher price tag. We can work with each budget to maximize accessibility.
The inclusive Merry-Go-Round gives wheelchair bound children the opportunity to independently approach and use together with their friends and siblings. The Liberty Swing allows for wheelchair bound children to experience the thrill of swinging without needing to transfer from their chair.
Stainless steel tube slides that are safe for children with Cochlear implants
The Team Swing allows multiple users of all abilities to swing together.
Double Wide Ramping throughout, means that there is space for two wheelchairs to pass side by side or for a double stroller to pass freely.
Parallel play – the Hi-Lo Monkey Bars and Hi-Lo rings , allow wheelchair bound children and their peers to play together side-by-side.
Adaptive Swings and harness in both the 2-5 and 5-12 models.
A Central Seating Area along with the increased sight lines
All Abilities Play: Sample Design & Narrative
ADA Design:
Development
Design for Sensory input includes visual decking that change direction to aid in depth perception, colorful rainbow stairs, different textures in panels and materials, small houses for children with autism to have a quiet space and a musical area. Other ideas are ADA play panels, zip lines, a berm and a sensory garden spiral of varying herbs.
Architecture by Design Lee, Dave and the entire design team put in considerable effort to build playground components that will not only stand the test of time, but that will be also be an architectural showpiece that your community can be proud of. Quite often this piece will be directly from a child’s imagination such as a giant robot playhouse or an elephant slide, but it can also be an historical element too.
History by Design Featured Playground: OurSpace @ RecPark - Bingamton, NY
History by Design Featured Playground: Kenosha Dream Playground – Kenosha, WI
History by Design Featured Playground: Sherley Park Playground – Anna, TX
Awarded best playground under 2 million in the state of Texas. Honored for its historical design.
The Magic Within _ _ _ We are mindful of the flow of play within the playground structure and intentionally place "Easter Eggs" to facilitate exploration. This can include play panels, internal nets, bridges, ladders, multi-colored pathways, and even shadows from a starry roof cut-out. With attention to architecture and alignment, we can also create a geometric kaleidoscope visible to a child moving through tunnels and up ladders allowing for a multi-dimensional, and multi- sensory experience.
Children are interviewed and asked to share their dream playground ideas. Our designer then uses these ideas to design the playground that day. In the evening, there is a public unveiling of the design to the parents, children, and other members of the community. The Design Day Process can be modified to meet the Safety guidelines for each state.
DESIGN DAY
Press Play: Design Day Reimagined
Design Day – Online
or in person
DREAM PLAYGROUND
IDEAS THAT COME TO LIFE!
References
As a custom design firm, we have so many designs to pull from. The following playground examples have a traditional “community build” look that honor the history and design of the original. That said, each of the rebuilds were redesigned where needed to improve sight lines and overall ”flow” of play. Many of them exceed safety and ADA guidelines and can be expected to outlive their lifespan. Finally, some of these references have had the opportunity to work with both Play By Design and Playgrounds by Leathers. They can offer their insight as to the strengths of each company.
Mt. Wolf, PA
Organization: Leg Up Farm Therapy Center Contact Person: Lou Castriota, Executive Director Contact Information: (717) 266-9294, ljcastriota@legupfarm.org Work Description: In 2013, we were asked to create a playground for a cutting edge Therapy Center. The playground is fully accessible and contains within in many different play elements to address the different physical, emotional and sensory needs of the children that use it.
The Treehouse @ Lititz Courtney Richie, General Coordinator courtneyg8gt @ gmail.com (717) 333-0296
Lititz, PA
Example of a playground safely built during the pandemic with community volunteers (fall 2020)
Highland Village, TX
1990
Organization: Kids Kastle Playground Contact Person: Phil Lozano - CPRP, MCPTM, FMP, Parks and Recreation Director Contact Information: ( 972) 317-7430 ex 130 plozano@highlandvillage.org Work Description: Built during the pandemic, our team had to switch from a full volunteer build to a contract labor build as well as pre-building components in our custom shop in upstate NY. Despite the changes, we came in under budget by 30k.
Kenosha, WI
Kenosha’s Dream Playground Tammy Conforti, General coordinator tammyjconforti@yahoo.com (262) 948-1956
Ojai, CA
King, NC
Ann Arbor, MI
1990
Eberwhite Elementary School Playground Bill Harris, Principal Eberwhite Elementary
Telephone: 734-994-1934 harrisw@aaps.k12.mi.us
Wilmington, OH
Organization: Castle Park II Contact Person: Jermaine Isaac, CPRP, Parks and Recreation Superintendent Contact Information: (937) 382-4781 Work Description: Mr. Isaac started the playground rebuild process with Leathers & Associates but ultimately contracted Play By Design. We were able to incorporate building materials that were donated from a local company into the design.
1990
Winters, CA
Organization: Project Playground Contact Person: Emarie VanGalio, General Coordinator Contact Information: echervinskas@gmail.com
Work Description: The original Build was in 1987. In 2017, the playground Committee of Winters, CA started the planning of the rebuild with Leathers and finished the community build with Play By Design. Despite being brought onto the project with only ten weeks until the build, this project was redesigned and completed joyfully, on time and on budget. The donated redwood is simply stunning!
1987
Franklin, WI
East Hempfield, PA
Organization: Amos Herr Playground Contact Person: Ed Bartakovits, Playground Committee Member Contact Information: (484) 225-0435
Work Description: Ed can provide rare insights into successfully rebuilding community- built playgrounds and has experienced the professional differences by completing playground projects with both Play By Design and the current Playgrounds by Leathers.
1987
Rowlett, TX
Organization: Kids Kingdom 2 Contact Person: JimProce, Former Assistant City Manager, Rowlett, TX Contact Information: (972) 924-3325, Jproce @ AnnaTexas.gov
Work Description: Jim Proce is currently the City Manager in Anna, TX. He was so inspired by the rebuild of Kids Kingdoms’ “Robot Playground” in Rowlett, that he contracted Play By Design once again to spearhead another community build playground in Anna, TX. This playground celebrates the local history and was awarded Best Playground (In Texas) Under 2 Million in 2019. For the best view of the playground, please click the video flyover below:
1994
Denton, TX
Organization: Eureka2.0 Contact Person: Emerson Vorel , Parks & Rec Director (retired) Contact Information: ( 406) 916-8316, Emersonvorel @ gmail.com Work Description: The video below highlights the community’s connection to their beloved playground and their process of rebuilding it. What we love about this video is the heart of the volunteers.
1995
Belmont, MA Joey’s Park www.joeyspark.org
1989
Deland, FL
Organization: Freedom Playground Next Generation Contact Person: Rick Hall, General Coordinator Contact Information: (386) 848 6167, hallr@deland.org Work Description: Built in 1991, it was estimated that this playground was enjoyed by more that 1.5 million families in the years it was open. Deterioration and the need for upgraded equipment, Play By Design was hired to help lead the rebuild in 2015. 1991
Contact us!
Contact Lee: (607) 351-5160 lee@PBDPlaygrounds.com
Contact Mary: (607) 280-2113 mary@pbdplaygrounds.com
Contact Samantha: (607) 339-0245 (Office Number) Samantha@pbdplaygrounds.com
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