Approach 3_ JimB

Skate Parks for UMaine

My idea is to build a skate park located at the University of Maine’s campus that would be available for students to use. It would be very helpful for on campus students that love to skate, as it means that they wouldn’t have to go off campus to find a park they like to skate at, and if more students on campus skated, it would be easier for them to get to class on time. It would also be efficient for people that lived off campus but close by in that instead of driving to campus and using more fossil fuels on campus, they could just skate to the campus.

For my approach, I made a 3D model in Rhino to visualize what this skate park, and below I have some images showcasing what this park could potentially look like.

In addition to already being efficient with saving time and reducing use of fossil fuels on campus,  all the ramps, bowls, half-pipes, and platforms would be made from reusable wood as opposed to concrete, which is commonly used in skate parks(at least for bowls and platforms that is), to make the park even more ecologically friendly in general.

Budget(financial):

The average skate park size, which is what I’m aiming for, is usually 15,000 square feet, and it generally costs $40 per square foot to make a skate park. I imagine it would approximately cost $600,000 to make, but it could vary between a little less expensive than that even depending on how much money would be saved by using reusable wood.

Budget(time):

Most skate parks that are of average size generally take 6 months to make. Half of that time is devoted to the design process however. Since I already have a design here, at this point it would just take 2 to 3 months to build once I have all the equipment I need.