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Basketball Court Building Packages: Popular Sizes
Indoor basketball courts have special requirements that are best met by a steel-built structure.
While it’s possible to use wood-frame, pole barn, or bricklaid buildings as options for these special-use facilities, steel offers a wide variety of benefits you can’t find with conventional building materials.
General Steel offers pre-fabricated, kitted steel gym building solutions that are perfect for use as indoor basketball courts. Not only do our steel buildings provide decades of outstanding protection from the elements, they come with the industry’s best structural warranty—that’s 50 years, backed by the manufacturer!
If you’re looking for a steel building supplier that has an existing track record of engineering high-quality, customized indoor basketball court solutions, General Steel is the name to know.
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30×60
Given its rectangular shape, a 30x60 metal building is versatile enough to be utilized by businesses or...
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50×50
A 50×50 metal building from General Steel provides a versatile solution for a variety of customers. Whether you...
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50×100
Our 50×100 steel building is one of our most versatile and popular sizes. With 5,000 square feet of space, this...
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60×100
This 60×100 steel building is one of our most versatile sizes.
It’s large enough to accommodate warehousing...
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100×100
One of the many benefits of prefab buildings is the column-free interior design, which is a standard feature for...
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100×200
Our 100 x 200 steel building package is the most efficient and economical way to get 20,000 square...
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100×300
A 100×300 steel building is the best option if you’re looking for maximum efficiency and space. At this...
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200×400
Our building system can be clear span up to 300' which makes this 200x400 steel building a versatile solution.
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100×100 Warehouse
The 100x100 metal warehouse package is one of the most popular choices for a warehouse business because of its...
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100×100 Sports Facility
The 100x100 metal building package is one of the most popular choices for indoor sports complexes because...
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100×300 Sports Facility
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40×80 Fitness Center
The 40x80 metal building package is one of the most popular choices for fitness centers because of the column.
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200×400 Fitness Center
A 200x400 prefab steel building package is well-equipped for a large-scale fitness center. The clear span framing..
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100×200 Sports Facility
The 100x200 metal building package is one of the most popular choices for sports clubs or communities in need...
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80×100 Fitness Center
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Why Choose General Steel for an Indoor Basketball Facility?
Sports clubs, community organizations, and collegiate athletics groups need indoor basketball courts that provide ample room not just for the court itself, but for adjoining locker rooms, equipment storage, and seating areas for spectators.
Steel buildings from General Steel suit this need perfectly by allowing for up to 300 feet of support-less indoor spans, a length which is more than sufficient for any regulation-sized basketball court.
Additionally, there are three reasons why steel is the optimal choice for indoor basketball gym:
- According to the National Basketball Association, court dimensions must be exactly 94’ in length and 50’ in width. Also, the indoor space must have a ceiling that is at least 23’ in height. Factoring these requirements into the equation, steel buildings are perfectly suitable to house indoor basketball courts. In fact, you could have as many as three regulation-sized basketball courts placed side-by-side under the same steel building roof!
- Construction of steel indoor basketball courts is must faster than other building types. Because General Steel indoor basketball facilities are shipped with everything needed to erect the structure, overall construction times can be reduced by 50% or more compared with other building structure types.
- Steel-built indoor basketball facilities are less expensive to maintain. The protective properties of steel combined with deep-channel walls that are easy to insulate make for an exceptionally energy-efficient building that is inexpensive to heat and cool.
When you critically evaluate all of the pros and cons that come with the variety of available building types, there really is no better option than steel for indoor basketball courts.
General Steel specializes in supplying advanced steel building solutions for developers, schools, real estate investors, and businesses looking for durable, versatile steel building solutions.
We’re proud of our legacy in the steel building industry. We’ve grown to become America’s #1 choice for steel buildings used as indoor basketball courts, and we’re ready to get started on the design process for your structure.
General Steel offers pre-fabricated, kitted steel gym building solutions that are perfect for use as indoor basketball courts.
Not only do our steel buildings provide decades of outstanding protection from the elements, they come with the industry’s best structural warranty—that’s 50 years, backed by the manufacturer!
When you’re ready to obtain a formal quote for the cost of the steel-built indoor basketball facility you need, we’ll be ready to answer all of your questions and get you on the road to owning a completed steel structure that will deliver on performance for decades to come.
How to Build an Indoor Basketball Court in Your Own Home | by The Plan Collection
Building an indoor court for your home can be a challenge but worth the effort.
If you live in a part of the country where the winters are long and very cold, you may struggle to get out of the house and into the gym. So, why not add an indoor basketball court to your own home?
Indoor basketball courts don’t have to be restricted to shooting hoops. They’re just as valuable for playing racquetball, doing gymnastics, or hosting a quick pickup game of kickball.
They also make fantastic indoor gyms, providing ample space for all of your weightlifting and cardio equipment.
Before you delve into our house plans with indoor basketball courts, it’s important to understand some nuances and specifics about them.
We have built several homes with indoor basketball courts. This has been a lot of fun and challenging.
Indoor basketball court dimensions are about 30'x35' with ceiling height at a minimum of 17' high. These dimension and height specifications mean many house plans with indoor basketball courts are for larger homes, but we’ve also built homes with basketball courts under the garage. I tend to like this option because it means virtually any home plan can have an indoor court.
To start building your indoor basketball court, you will need to pour your footings as a monolithic pour. That simply means you pour the floor of the gym 4 inches thick, except at the edges it will be 10 inches thick. The 10 x 20-inch concrete on the edge will have horizontal and vertical rebar like a regular footing.
Also, where the wall sits you will need to use a keyway where the foundation walls will be. The keyway simply leaves a 2–3 inch groove in the footing so the foundation wall concrete can mold into the footing, thus creating a unit that works together. This also helps seal the bottom of the wall so water shouldn’t get in.
The foundation walls will need to be engineered. My engineer requires the walls to be the regular 8-inch walls, but the rebar is placed every 12 inches, both vertically and horizontally. The rebar at the top of the wall will need to stick above the walls so it can be bent over and tied to the concrete of the garage floor. We have our suspended slabs made off-site. They bring in the “pre-stressed concrete slabs” and install them with a crane. We then seal all of the joints, then bend all of the rebar over and tie in the horizontal rebar. This creates a 12-inch mat of rebar throughout the entire floor. We then pour a 4 inch sloped floor over the pre-stressed concrete and matted rebar.
One thing to note about indoor basketball courts under garages: the pre-stressed concrete is about 12” thick. That means you need to have 9-foot basement walls, or set the gym an extra foot deeper. Otherwise you will have to step down when you enter your home from the garage.
Another thought to consider: To have a gym under the garage, you will be digging over 16 feet in the ground. Many areas have water tables well above the 16 feet. All of the homes we have done are on the benches of the mountains in Utah. These are areas where there isn’t going to be a water problem. Usually we try and find a lot where it really drops off, so we don’t have to dig and haul away 16 feet of dirt. Sometimes we get really good deals on these lots, because they drop off too much for a typical house.
Be cautious when digging and forming the tall walls. You certainly want trained professionals to do this type of work. You should also consider placing a temporary fence around the deep hole.
Make sure to schedule everything out so that you can get the deep hole, backfilled and covered as quickly as possible.
Most of the homeowners have chosen to put a thin carpet on the walls and an industrial gym carpet on the floor. The carpet reduces the noise and is more kid friendly.
One last thought, about lighting and heating. Because these rooms are so deep in the ground, they won’t need central air and may not need any heat. You can do forced air, but a better alternative is to have in-floor heating.
The lights need to be low profile, like fluorescent lights. You can get fluorescent lights with a wire cage around them. You can also have glass block put in towards the top of the walls to shed some natural light in the gym.
Now I know my directions may not be that clear, but I am a builder, not a technical writer. Just know that most any plan with a garage could be adapted to have an indoor basketball court under the garage. You will need to get with a local engineer to help you review your plan.
Just explain how we are doing it and he will understand all of the terms and guidelines you need in your area.
Many keep asking about the cost to build an indoor basketball court. Of course every part of the country is different. I know that my raw cost to build a gym under a garage is in the neighborhood of $25,000 — $30,000. However, in my neck of the woods, it increases the property value much more than the money invested. They make great spec homes because the profit margins are much greater.
If you’re ready to step up your A-game, there’s no better place to find a house plan with an indoor basketball court than The Plan Collection. We’ve compiled some of our favorite house plans with indoor basketball courts or sport courts for you to look through:
This luxury mountain house plan features an indoor basketball court beneath the garage in the basement, along with an entertainment room, exercise room, home theater and more.
This 3-bedroom house plan includes an indoor gym that’s spacious enough to serve as an indoor basketball court.
It’s located in the finished walk-out basement along with a family room and covered patio for top-notch entertainment all year long.
Designed for the active family, this 3-bedroom house plan features a large indoor basketball court with 16-foot ceilings. Measuring more than 800 square feet in size, there are no limits to what you can do with this space.
An indoor basketball court in the finished basement is nestled alongside a game area, entertainment room, exercise room, sauna and wet bar, making this 5-bedroom the ultimate house plan for the entertainment lover.
As I have mentioned before, we built our personal home about nine years ago. We built it with an indoor basketball court and have loved it. We live in an area of the country where we have cold long winters, and it is so nice to have a place for our family to be active. A home gym can be used for so many activities like basketball, racquetball, gymnastics, climbing, skating, and even golf. We hit those yellow foam golf balls in ours.
Hopefully, you love your indoor basketball court like we do.
Originally published at www.theplancollection.com.
Basketball hall construction
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The quality of a football field is more than half dependent on the quality of the base! Our base is a monolithic solid single layer, which over the years does not form any fractures, the soil does not go anywhere and remains flat throughout the entire period of operation. Relatively speaking, even if a tractor passes over the base, there will be no tire marks, because everything is solid and dense!
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We carry out all types of additional improvement works: we can install a fence for you, pave an asphalt path to something, level the territory, paint walls, curbs, etc.
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The laying of artificial grass itself is as important as the preparation of the base. When laying the field, an important aspect is gluing the rolls and cutting the markings. Gluing must be done securely. The material in the work requires getting used to, because the two-component glue rolls down after a while and they need to work quickly.
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Be sure to remember: the gate is installed with a safety requirement so that it does not turn over. Therefore, this aspect is given special importance. In this regard, the gate is either concreted or attached to an accompanying fence.
Installation of the goal
The backfilling of a football field determines a large part of the playing characteristics. Backfilling is a responsible job, because the presence or absence of drops and bumps, which will eventually be felt during the game, depends on the uniform distribution of sand and crumb rubber on sports grounds.
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We cooperate with the largest manufacturers of stands, fences and other sports equipment in the Russian Federation. Therefore, if necessary, we can supply everything you need to the object at a wholesale price. We install all this equipment, advise in which cases which is better, etc. We can supply many things both in a finished version and make them ourselves on the spot.
Installation of additional equipment (treadmills, jumping pits, safety fences, grandstands)
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The thickness of the foundation pit and the amount of materials that are needed for your foundation, we select depending on the size of the field. We select drainage and other systems based on the regional location (how much precipitation is in your region, what kind of drainage is needed).
Additionally, we equip drainage wells, or divert them to the drainage system. Field slopes of several different types depending on site operating conditions.
Preparing the excavation, sand bed, drainage system
The quality of a football field is more than half dependent on the quality of the base! Our base is a monolithic solid single layer, which over the years does not form any fractures, the soil does not go anywhere and remains flat throughout the entire period of operation. Relatively speaking, even if a tractor passes over the base, there will be no tire marks, because everything is solid and dense!
Sequential compaction of base layers
We carry out all types of additional improvement works: we can install a fence for you, pave an asphalt path to something, level the territory, paint walls, curbs, etc. We will perform all the required related work!
Installation of the curbstone
The laying of artificial grass itself is as important as the preparation of the base.
When laying the field, an important aspect is gluing the rolls and cutting the markings. Gluing must be done securely. The material in the work requires getting used to, because the two-component glue rolls down after a while and they need to work quickly.
Laying the grass on the prepared base, gluing it and cutting the markings
Be sure to remember: the gate is installed with a safety requirement so that it does not turn over. Therefore, this aspect is given special importance. In this regard, the gate is either concreted or attached to an accompanying fence.
Installation of the goal
The backfilling of a football field determines a large part of the playing characteristics. Backfilling is a responsible job, because the presence or absence of drops and bumps, which will eventually be felt during the game, depends on the uniform distribution of sand and crumb rubber on sports grounds. That is, there should be both a flat base and a high-quality pile with an even distribution of backfill under it.
Raising grass, distributing sand and crumb rubber across the field
We cooperate with the largest manufacturers of stands, fences and other sports equipment in the Russian Federation. Therefore, if necessary, we can supply everything you need to the object at a wholesale price. We install all this equipment, advise in which cases which is better, etc. We can supply many things both in a finished version and make them ourselves on the spot.
Installation of additional equipment (treadmills, jumping pits, safety fences, grandstands)
You can also be sure that we will carry out all the necessary arrangements for their improvement on the site and the adjacent territory.
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We are engaged in the construction of turnkey basketball halls: we design, draw up design estimates, coordinate the construction, mount the foundation and roof structures, lay the bases and coverings, perform finishing work, provide communications and deliver sports equipment. Each of the stages of work is implemented strictly according to the schedule agreed with the client, which allows us to deliver a fully finished project on time.
We build basketball halls on a turnkey basis based on prefabricated structures
Our company is ready to offer a wide range of structures for the construction of basketball halls: from a metal frame - LSTK and LMK, structures with wooden supports for covering with sandwich panels or air-supported, frameless, frame- awning and inflatable arenas.
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- The cost for the construction of prefabricated objects is always 30-40% lower;
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Basketball court markings: standards and norms
Author of the article
Dmitry Khvatkov
Consultant in the production of rubber coatings
Basketball field marking requirements are approved by the FIBA standard. The site must be flat with a hard surface, free of bends, cracks and other obstacles. The accepted dimensions of the field are 28 m long and 16 m wide. By NBA standards, the field is slightly larger: 28.
7 m (94' ft) long and 15.3 m (50' ft) wide.
Non-international competition courts may differ from accepted standards (for general use, in schools or universities, etc.) and usually vary from 20 to 28 m in length and from 12 to 16 m in width.
Basketball court marking standards
Basketball court markings are conditionally divided into 5 components:
- Boundary lines. They are located along the perimeter of the site and set its size. The lines that run along the field are called side lines, and those that are behind the baskets are called front lines.
- Central line. Divides the court in half parallel to the front lines.
- Central zone. It is a circle and is placed in the middle of the center line, and, accordingly, in the center of the entire field.
- Three-point line. It is a semi-ellipse and is located around the shields on both sides of the field. It limits the close range.
- Free throw line. It is located in front of the shields parallel to the front line and is limited on the sides by paint lines.
The standard line width is 5 cm. All outlines and lines must be of the same color (usually white) and be clearly visible from anywhere on the court.
Common lines
Common lines are used to limit the playing area of the court. The side lines (along the field) according to FIBA standards should be 28 m long, and the front lines - 16 m. For public areas, deviations from the accepted standards are allowed. Typically, basketball courts in schools or gyms are made from 20 m long and 12 m wide.
Central lines
The center line is parallel to the front and divides the field exactly in half. According to the standards - it should extend beyond the side lines by 15 cm on both sides.
In the middle of the center line there is a circle with a diameter of 3.6 m, which limits the central zone of the field. In this zone, the ball is played at the beginning of the game.
Three-point line
Three-point lines are located around the backboards on both sides of the field and consist of two straight lines with a length of 2.
99 m and a semicircle. Straight lines run perpendicular to the front at a distance of 0.9 m from the sidelines. Despite the fact that visually the distance from the ring to the side of the three-point line seems to be less than to its central part, the distance from the backboard to any point is 6.75 m.
Penalty lines
Penalty lines limit the nearest area at the backboard. They consist of a trapezoid and a free throw zone.
Despite the name, the "trapezium" is a rectangle (until 2009year it really was a trapezoid), which is located under the shield. Its dimensions are 5.8 meters long and 4.9 meters wide. The shield is located at a distance of 1.575 m from the end line in the middle of the site. In front of the backboard, at a distance of 1.25 m, there is a semicircle that limits the area for picking up the ball.
At a distance of 4.225 meters from the backboard, the trapeze zone ends and the free throw zone begins. It is a semicircle with a diameter of 3.
6 m (like the central circle).
Paint zone lines
These lines are serifs on both sides of the trapezoid (parallel to the side lines). They limit the areas for players who are fighting for the ball during a free throw.
Zones on the basketball field
The basketball court is divided into zones using markings. Each zone has its own specific rules.
Center circle
The center circle is used as a separate kick-off area at the start of the game. One representative from each team stand in a circle from their side and fight for the ball in a jump, after it is dropped by the referee. All players are exclusively on their side of the field, except for one who rebounds on the opponent's side.
Neutral zone
The peculiarity of this zone is that as soon as the player of the attacking team with the ball crosses the center line and is on the side of the opponent, he cannot pass the ball to the player of his team who is on the other side of the field (i.
e. behind center line on your side).
Three-point zone
The three-point line limits the near field of the shot. Hitting the basket from outside the basket brings the team three points. If the throw was made inside the zone, then it brings two points.
Three-second zone
This is the zone in close proximity to the ring. It is called three-second, since the player of the attacking team cannot be in it for more than three seconds. Most balls are thrown in this zone, so when attacking, it provides maximum protection.
Free throw area
In controversial situations, a free throw is provided from this area. The player of the attacking team must score the ball without stepping over the line of the trapezoid. At the same time, the players of both teams are not in the three-second zone. They take up positions along the paint lines on the sides of the trapezoid and may not step outside the lines until the free throw shooter has shot the ball.
How to mark a basketball field?
Basketball field markings, whether it is an international competition court or an open-air amateur field, are best applied using special equipment.
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