Plan your playground with playground specialists
Playground Centre’s FunMaker Process combines expert insights with exceptional service and a spirit of fun that ensures you’ll love the experience of planning, designing and building your playground as much as the result.
First, we DISCOVER everything about your play space location, goals and budget, who will use the play space and what matters to them. Then, we EXPLORE the play possibilities, drawing on our knowledge of what inspires people to play.
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Helpful resources to start planning
The Great 8
Our user-friendly guide that sets out the eight key principles for best practice playground design.
People Powered Play Spaces
Learn how our user-centred approach to playground design puts people front and centre from start to finish.
All Inclusive Fun Handbook
Your essential guide to creating inclusive play spaces where everyone can enjoy the benefits of play.
Design
Here’s where the fun really begins! We DESIGN your play space, unleashing our creativity and applying best practice inclusive and sustainable design principles.
We bring it all together, using leading edge design software to generate visual concepts and drawings that support community consultation and approvals, and guide everything from manufacturing to installation.
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Deliver
Once the playground concept is approved, we manufacture the play equipment, help ensure the site is prepared for installation, and that construction goes to plan.
This is followed by a thorough site inspection and complete safety and quality certification. And the support doesn’t end there! Playground Centre also provides comprehensive warranties, maintenance guides and schedules. We also offer our expertise for regular maintenance inspections.
Talk to a playground specialistWhat our customers are saying
Playground centre were amazing to work with the whole process of Memorial park. They took our ideas from the design phase and came up with a concept that told the stories of the park and took the poppy theme throughout the design.”
Glen Finlayson | Palmerston North City Council
Playground Centre were engaged to design a playground that would create an experience for all ages of children and encourage parents to visit with their children. They delivered a quality and outstanding play feature, on time and on budget, that has surpassed council’s expectations of use and attraction.”
Tony Bodger | Tauranga City Council
I would recommend Playground Centre for anyone looking to improve their play area. They were fast to send quotes and designs until we had a good balance of our grand ideas and our actual budget! They enabled us to get an amazing result. It was wonderful to see the community come together and help create this playground. The kids love it.”
Lauren Kennedy | Fundraising Committee
Answers to common questions to get you started
I’m building a playground, where do I start?
One of the first and most important decisions you need to make is who you will work with to plan, design and build your playground. Involving a company who specialises in playground equipment and design, like Playground Centre, can have significant benefits. There are three main ways that we work with our clients:
- Playground Design and Build Services – We partner with you to build your playground from concept to completion, including playground design, project planning, equipment design and selection and installation.
- Playground Project Partner – We offer our expertise and experience to support you to build your playground, working in collaboration with you and your preferred suppliers. This could include a project manager, landscape architect, playground surfacing supplier or contractors you have chosen to prepare your site for the installation of play equipment.
- Playground Equipment Provider – We support you to select playground equipment designed and manufactured to suit your playground design, needs and budget.
Talk to one of our expert playground design and build specialists today to find out how we can help you with your playground project.
What are the keys to a successful playground project?
At Playground Centre, we believe people are at the heart of every great playground design. Research and experience show that the more involved a community is in the design and development of a play space for their school or local park, the higher the use and the better the outcomes for everyone involved. It’s why community consultation is playing an ever-increasing role in playground projects.
Working with a playground specialist like Playground Centre who understands all the factors involved in building a playground can also be the difference between creating a playground you think people will like, and a playground you can be confident people will love. Here’s why:
- End to end ease: The right process from the start saves you time, money and stress.
- Personalised support: You have a dedicated project manager to help you navigate every step from design to equipment selection and installation.
- Creative ideas: Access to best practice thinking on inclusive, age and developmentally appropriate playground design that optimise the play benefits for all users.
- Compliance focus: In-house expertise to help you tick all of the boxes when it comes to procurement, installation and safety certification.
- Consultation tools: Designs and documentation, including 3D illustrations, to make decision making and approvals a breeze.
What size playgrounds do you build?
Playground Centre playgrounds come in all shapes and sizes – from large-scale destination playgrounds to adventure playgrounds in parks, school grounds and holiday resorts to compact play spaces for early learning centres. We’ve even created indoor playgrounds for shopping centres and entertainment complexes.
Talk to us today about designing and building a playground to suit your space, needs and budget. Or visit the Projects section of our website to explore the different types of playgrounds we have built.
Can you custom design a unique playground for me?
Yes! Custom play space and equipment design is where we shine. Playground Centre’s comprehensive, in-house design service gives you access to the latest playground design thinking backed by industry-leading playground equipment design and manufacturing expertise that enables you to achieve a truly unique and bespoke play space.
What countries does Playground Centre service?
You will find Playground Centre play spaces in countries around the world – from New Zealand to Australia, Asia, Europe and the UK, and the Middle East! While our HQ and manufacturing facility is in New Zealand, we also have manufacturing facilities and offices in a number of locations and the people, experience and expertise to help you design and build a playground wherever you are located. This includes a dedicated team with specialised skills in creating playgrounds for International Schools .