Member retention is crucial to any fitness facility, and one often-overlooked way to bring members in the door and keep them coming back is to provide a clean, healthy environment. Keeping fitness equipment clean is an important step that not only protects members from disease but also ensures your equipment will last.

If you have an existing water source, such as a lake or pond, in your park, you can transform it and find new ways to generate revenues by adding a playground on the water. Adding a range of inflatable amenities to your water will generate new interest and bring people to the park to serve as a new source of revenue, allowing you to expand your offerings at all your facilities.

Shelters, pavilions, gazebos and other site structures have the potential to make a tremendous impression on park visitors. What's more, with the wide variety of standard and customized options that are available these days, you can find a park structure that will stand out from the pack, creating a unique destination for your community.

Traditional trash and recycling collection wastes time and money. By modernizing this system with wireless sensors, you can continually monitor fill level, temperature, weight, location and collection status. Sensor-driven management helps maximize efficiencies in collection planning, scheduling, routing and resource utilization.

On-site chlorine generation has long been recognized as a lower-cost way to maintain water sanitization in commercial swimming pools and water-based recreational facilities while producing a pH-neutral chlorine. The cost advantages are getting a boost from a number of safety factors.

Loose-fill playground safety surfaces such as engineered wood fiber are economical, safe and readily available. However, this type of surface does require regular maintenance. There are ways to extend the lifecycle of engineered wood fiber, increasing its safety and performance.

When you want to outfit a beautiful outdoor site, you need to select and maintain furnishings with care. Depending on where your site is located, there are myriad options for materials and styles that can fit just about any context. When you want to celebrate the view and create an inviting, natural appeal, look to wood furnishings.

Members' perception of your fitness facility is driven by more than trendy equipment and programming. Ongoing attention to equipment cleanliness and safety—for the more traditional cardio and strength training equipment, or the new array of functional training pieces associated with the increasingly popular CrossFit, boot camp and HIIT gyms—are major contributors to a facility's success and reputation.

Camping provides a fun recreational outlet, but the camping experience is only as good as the campsite where it takes place. Well-designed campsites take comfort, functionality and safety into account, in addition to aesthetics to provide a pleasing experience for visitors.

Millions of people across the country own dogs, and many of them are likely coming to your parks and trails with their canine friends. Dog waste can be a big problem when people don't clean up, but you can make it easier by providing the right solution to make parks and trails more pet- and people-friendly.