(picture: Chairman, board of Trustee, the Vice-chancellor and Omosun sylvester)
"Those that fail to plan, plan to fail."
Part of the stewardship the sport committee considers for the submission of this report is to plan for our future.
There are many things on our development plan at the moment, all of which have high priorities both at present preparation for event or the future. As much we need to deal with them by working with the existing facilities in place and making plan/upgrade for the future.
We know that tomorrow will not take care of itself unless we have a plan in place, a road map that we can follow over the next few years as our programs' needs change and our resources allow.
A comprehensive analysis of an existing usage of the facilities in Bells University of Technology, Ota, is one piece of that guide.
Authorities in Universities have often been forced to cut their sport and recreation budgets significantly in the past few years and are unable to take on extra funding commitments, because of the increasing cost of facilities, For this reason, it will always make sense to assess and make significant plan in the upgrading of the existing facilities in any institution
(picture: Chairman, Sport Committee and the Student Affair officer)
Upgrading of the sports facilities will promote its community usage, and it will generate net income for the University or create enhanced facilities for the delivery of the wider curriculum. It could help in the planning and promotion of the effective community use of the sport facilities
Well overall it means if we see a need to make physical improvements to our existing facilities or provide new ones to support these in place, in order to promote community use of it, we will have to find ideas in these facilities assessments reviewed here
The most popular sport activities for student in this university are football, basketball, lawn tennis, so these three has been paid the more attention in this report more so because they involve the sports the university represents in Gateway Games, it is hoped that once the student population increases we will have more equal choices, we believe that upgrading of these sport facilities early will provide opportunities for clubs and other college groups to meet regularly and develop their sport in a social and/or competitive way.
(picture: the Bursar, The Registrar and the Librarian of Bells University)
The first step in crafting our facilities plan was to identify through a tried and true University process a sub-committee of the sport committee to conduct this study
The members of the Sports Facilities and Upgrading Committee use the following six-step process in the evaluation of the sport complex and indoor (auditorium):
1. Evaluation of Existing facilities
2. Analysis of Facility needs
3. maintenance culture
4. Conceptual design
5. Goal setting/recommendations - Facilities Study Committee
6. expenditure incurred in Preparation of Report- convener
EVALUATION OF EXISTING FACILITIES:
The University Sport Committee identified a general desire to make our University facilities available for greater or more effective community use than at present.
Therefore it does cover the evaluation of existing facilities left for us by its former user; Bells Secondary School, for upgrading purpose.
We identify that the planning and implementation of the upgrading project is necessary to create new or enhanced sports facilities for the University curricular, extra-curricular or community use.
However, this evaluation report is not simply a matter of making facilities report for the upgrade available, it also highlights the maintenance of a balanced Programme for a range of sports required in lieu of the resources available in the University at present
(picture: the University Proprietor)
WHAT DOES THIS EXISTING FACILITIES USE ACTUALLY ACHIEVE?
The sport facilities encourages and enable the students to take part in community sport, and providing coaching experience to staff, it promotes social inclusion, it promote increased participation in sport by all members of the university community, it encourages students to gain increased skills and enjoyment, it enhancing the image of the university within its local community, e.g. the inter group games
MAINTENANCE CULTURE
All capital assets need adequate maintenance culture, in this regard I suggest we should normally seek to work in partnership with the Department of Physical Planning and Works, were we can get essential services from, building technicians, engineers, surveyors and much more
The university will certainly benefit from working in partnership with the gardeners, and in so doing them (the gardeners) will be aware of sport center needs and priorities, such as clearing the fields, cleaning the courts etc.
• Keeping your playing surfaces and adjacent areas scrupulously clean
• Applying preventative treatments of moss-killer / algaecide / weed killer as appropriate
• Pressure washing surfaces at least every other year
• vacuuming indoor(multipurpose hall) surfaces regularly and, if recommended, occasional washing, especially after sport meet
• never using metal shovels to scrape the eroded deposit or weed off the surfaces of the sport courts- brooms and wooden scrapers are best
• using the recommended footwear for your surface to prevent damage, students have to be stopped from player 5-a-side in the handball court with football studs
