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Operating 119 fitness and lifestyle centres across the United States and Canada, the Life Time Fitness and Life Time Athletic brands are well on their way to establishing themselves as leaders in the health and wellness field.

As part of the organization’s expansion into Canada, we have been with them every step of the way.  Our team provided them with assistance and products for their Mississauga location back in 2012 and for their Ajax location just last year.

As the organization was ready to unveil yet another state-of-the-art fitness and health facility, we were right there to provide them with everything they needed once again.  The site of their most recently established Life Time Athletic location is located in the Vaughan region just north of the City of Toronto.  The facility offers members the benefits of a full-service spa, cafe, indoor cycling studio, indoor turf field, basketball courts and much more.

While customers have access on the internet to an endless amount of possibilities to upgrade or outfit their facility or stadium, they are generally unaware of all the options that exist in the way of bleacher customization.

When purchasing a big-ticket item such as a bleacher structure to safely house spectators, we have and will always aim to push the envelope, delivering highly customized products to suit the individual needs of our current and future customer base.

By showcasing our work using our blog and social media channels, we have been successful in displaying the high level of design and custom work that can be done to bleacher structures.  Whether your goal is to make your seating structures as safe as possible, expand capacity, provide accessible seating or make your bleachers mobile, we have the know-how and experience to get the job done.

Operating since 1905, the Rotary Club is made up of 1.2 million members who work diligently throughout each and every year to overcome their community’s toughest challenges.  Through the strength of the Rotary Club’s resources and partners, individual clubs are able to successfully promote peace, fight disease, support education and help communities flourish.

While we unfortunately cannot give to every organization, we do proudly support a number of charitable organizations each and every year.  As part of this mission, we are particularly proud of events that are held right here in our community, including one with which we have worked for over 35 years.

The Almonte Hospital Charity Golf Tournament, as its name suggests, supports the Almonte General Hospital-Fairview Manor Foundation.  Governed by a group of community leaders and hospital management members, the foundation sets out to provide funds to support the goals and objectives of both the hospital and the manor. 

Currently in the United States there are an estimated 24,000,000 people who play soccer in one level or another.  This statistic has increased to the tune of roughly 89 percent since 1990, and in 2015 soccer was rated more popular to watch on television than ice hockey, auto racing, tennis and golf.

In light of this growth, youth soccer programs in the United States and Canada have exploded over the past years.  What was once a sport played by young players on worn out fields is quickly becoming a premier pastime in North American society. 

One of our most recent projects brought us to beautiful Greensboro, North Carolina, the home of Pitt Community College.  The college, established in 1961, now awards associate degrees, diplomas and certificates for more than 60 programs, serving more than 23,000 credit and non-credit students each and every year.  The college is currently the seventh largest in the 58-member North Carolina Community College System and is home to the Pitt Community College Bulldogs, who are represented with athletic programming in baseball, men’s basketball, softball and women’s volleyball.

                               Bleachers Before Retrofit                                                        Bleachers After Retrofit

As any athletic facility owner or operator knows, specific needs and requirements can sometimes change like the weather.  With growing programs, fan bases and participants, equipment purchased in the past can often require expansion or upgrading as your program progresses.

Keeping up with these changes along with having the ability to pivot and scale quickly can make or break a growing program.  With that in mind, a large portion of our business is dedicated to designing structures such as bleacher seating systems that can undergo relatively painless retrofits, giving operators the ability to grow, without the pain.

We all love the roar of the crowd while taking in a football game, or the rush we get while watching players blaze down a basketball court.  The sensations that sports illicit in both spectators and participants can sometimes make us forget about everything that went into the design and production of the courts, bleachers and other athletic products used on a daily basis.

Before these products hit the floor of any gymnasium or grace the sidelines of any football field or soccer pitch, they oftentimes have gone through years of research and development.  While technological and design elements are forever changing, making our lives easier, safety is still the top priority for equipment and infrastructure manufacturers like us and the customers we serve.

Photo: Our installation team lowering a customized press box atop a grandstand bleacher at Millennium Park

We’ve all been treated to the sight of a large-scale grandstand bleacher rising from an athletic field waiting to be filled with throngs of avid fans eagerly waiting to support their favourite team.  While these structures alone give us a warm and fuzzy feeling inside, nothing completes these marvellously engineered structures quite like a press box affixed to the upper portion of the stands. 

In addition to giving fans a comfortable seat and great vantage point for viewing their favourite sporting events, bleachers completed with a press box give timekeepers, staff and members of the press a hub from which they can operate. 

Founded in 2009, Fieldhouse Athletics and the Fieldhouse Pirates Baseball Club is a premier high-performance baseball development program located in Canada for U.S. college-bound baseball players.

Offering players access to year-round development and training from experienced coaches, the program fields 13U, 14U, 16U and 18U baseball teams and will soon be the first Ontario-based club to field 10U and 11U teams as well.

Their state-of-the-art training facility is where baseball dreams come true.  Inside, players make use of the MLB spec clay pitching mound, pitching machine tunnels, laser-timed 60-yard dash area, long-toss throwing lanes and a 5-toll video analysis centre.