The Facilities Designer
As park facilities designer, you will be adding equipment to help keep the park clean, useful, and relaxing.

Equipment that the park currently has:

• 5 Pavilions with bathrooms (each is 20 feet by 60 feet)
• Lighting throughout the park

Equipment that needs to be renovated or replaced:

• 20 benches
• 15 picnic tables
• 15 grills
• 50 trashcans
• A new playground to replace the old, broken one
• Anything you feel will help make the park cleaner, safer, more relaxing, more useful, and more beautiful.
  

You will use the worksheet linked below to compare prices of benches, grills, picnic tables and trashcans. You will have to find the prices of each at three different Web pages. Several search engines are listed below. Compare price, dimensions, and quality to decide on the most suitable facilities for the park.

Facilities Designer Worksheet (PDF)

Some helpful sites:
One Stop Catalog
http://store.yahoo.com/onestopshopcatalog/patio-catalog-patio-furniture-picnic-tables.html
Dealtime.com
http://www.dealtime.com/xDN-Furniture-picnic_table
Catalog City
http://cj.catalogcity.com/cc.class/cc?main=product_categories&act=0-0-0-28688&ccsyn=22
Backyard America
http://www.backyardamerica.com/park_amenities.htm
Burke Premier Play Environments
http://www.bciburke.com/
Wholesale Playground, Inc.
http://play-ground.com/commerical.htm
APark Playstructures
www.apark.com/subpage.asp?catagory_id=141

Application:
You are working with a park space of 2000 feet by 2000 feet. You will need think about the amount of space each facility or piece of equipment will require. Use the information from the web sites to estimate size and to plan for placement of these facilities in your park.