scope:

This document specifies essential characteristics for multi-sports floor systems designed for use in indoor sport halls and gymnasia or applies to single sport facilities designed for the following sports: volleyball, basketball, badminton, small sided football, and handball. NOTE - Physical education is considered as a multisport use. This document specifies multi-sports floor systems, being placed onto the market either whether prefabricated as a single product or constructed in situ as a kit (e.g. a combination of two or more components). This document specifies multi-sports floor systems, which may be affixed to the substrate either as glued, with adhesive, or as loose laid. This document specifies: - the methods for determination of performances of the essential characteristics, - the methods for evaluation of the results against the threshold levels or classes of performances, where relevant, - the way of expressing their performance, - provisions for the systems for Assessment and Verification of Constancy of Performance, - marking of sports floor systems. This document does not apply to synthetic turf or textile surfaces used indoors and socket caps.