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Tasmanian Oak has become the Australian timber of choice for elite indoor sports flooring, delivering the resilience, stability and consistency competition venues demand.
Tasmanian Oak’s Janka hardness rating is 5.5 to 5.7 kilonewtons, while the species also offers exceptional stability. Tasmanian Oak floors installed decades ago remain in service, demonstrating stability and resistance to long-term movement.
Professor Gregory Nolan, from the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood, notes that species within the range of five to seven kilonewtons perform equivalently on hardness when a floor is properly designed, finished and maintained.
FIBA Certification confirms the performance of this complete floor system. FIBA approval applies to the system as a whole rather than a single material, testing the subfloor, plywood, rubber cushioning, battens and playing surface for ball bounce, shock absorption and uniformity. Australasian Sports Floors holds FIBA Level 1 and 2 approvals for Tasmanian Oak systems. Tasmanian Oak has been used for sports floors at Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, NJ Edwards Hub at The Hutchins School (pictured), St Kevin’s College Toorak and Knox Netball Centre.
Brad Smith of Australasian Sports Floors estimates that about 20 percent of the nation’s 400 to 500 school sports stadiums are laid in Tasmanian Oak, and rates Australian systems that use the species among the best in the world.
Why ship imported species across the Pacific when Tasmanian Oak is grown, milled, certified and built into systems engineered in Australia for Australian conditions? A Tasmanian Oak sports floor gives architects a traceable local supply chain.
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