Facility Type:

For certain facilities, the wall may be located in a recreation center that is a part of a YMCA that is sponsored and operated by a university. In each case, we tried to pick the best overall description of the type of facility that the wall is located in.

Location in Facility:

For example, walls may be a centerpiece of the facility but in a separate locked room. In this case, they would appear in two different categories but for ease, we picked the “most pertinent” category to place them in for ease of searching.

Wall Type:

Due to the fact that there are a number of completed projects that have two or more different wall types, we created a category called “combination walls”. We felt that it was important to highlight these unique facilities in a separate category because it is fascinating to see how two different wall products can be used in conjunction with one another. Walls listed in this category are also listed in the individual product categories that are present within the facility. For example, if a facility’s climbing wall is comprised of both A.R.T.Wall TM and Nicros-EasyWall TM, the facility would be listed in three product categories: A.R.T.Wall TM, Nicros-EasyWall TM, and Combination Walls.

Wall Colors:

With our A.R.T.Wall TM and WestCoast TM products, the three standard colors are brown earthtones, grey earthtones, and orange earthtones. For Nicrolite TM, Nicros-SegWall TM, and Nicros Playground Boulders, the standard is a brown earthtone. Nicros-EasyWall TM is tan, and Nicros-GranitPanels TM have a grey base with top-coat of flecking with five different rock-like colored paints. For an additional fee, a number of different post-applied tinting techniques can be used to achieve the desired affect you are looking for. Keep in mind, you may see older projects on here that are colors other than the ones stated. These colors may or may not have been done as an upcharge and may have occurred prior to standardizing our color system. If Nicros is constructing your wall and you’ve looked through the gallery and found a facility that exhibits the coloring you desire at your facility, mention it to your sales representative and they’ll be able to tell you whether it’s standard or not.

Landing Surface:

Most facilities have landing surfaces, although not all were installed by Nicros. If a facility has a landing surface that looks like our Nicro-Mat TM product, for instance, we categorized it as “other” rather than lumping it in with Nicro-Mat TM so as not to confuse our products with other company products even though they may look very similar.

Bouldering Wall:

This question will be answered, “yes” if the facility has a bouldering wall. We may or may not have pictures of a separate bouldering cave, but tried to show one in every instance. If you do a search on bouldering walls and pull up a number of full height walls in your search, this is because, in addition to the full height climbing wall, they also have a bouldering area or bouldering cave.

Dimensions:

In some cases these are exact, in other cases they are approximate. We did the best we could with the information we had on each wall. You’ll notice that if you multiply the height and the width, you will not get the square footage total. We also multiply it by a factor based on the overall relief contained in the climbing wall as well as enclosed tops and end caps. The total square footage is the final number for the size of the wall. For a number of projects, the wall varies in height or has a separate, much shorter, bouldering cave. On these projects, we’ve used the height that occurs throughout the majority of the facility.

Ropes:

This refers to the total number of top ropes in the facility but does not account for any auto belays. If a facility has four auto belays and zero top ropes, the number here would read zero.

Auto Belays:

This refers to the number of auto belays in the facility regardless of which type of auto belays. Over time, Nicros has sold several different types of auto belays and has even retro-installed them into a number of facilities. This number refers to the current total number of auto belays in each facility.

Completion Time:

Due to a number of factors, completion times can vary. Although it took five weeks to complete a wall at facility X, if a duplicate wall was put into another facility with different factors at play, the total time could have been three weeks or seven weeks or more. Factors to consider when thinking of completion time are site conditions upon commencement of construction, the availability of tools, geographical location, weather, crew combination and experience, whether the walls were pre-fabricated and sent out or constructed on site, access issues, etc.

Cost:

All projects show a range for cost for a number of reasons. Although we do sell walls to the end user, our walls are often sold as a part of a “package” to a general contractor or an architect and are upcharged before being passed onto the end customer. In this instance, what we charged for the wall and what the customer paid for the wall could be two different amounts. If we took and duplicated one of the projects in the gallery and put it at your facility, there is no way to say that the price will be exactly the same. Project cost differs over time due to inflation, increased material costs, etc. and often will be different due to space issues, access issues, and other particulars that are unique to the actual project we are working on.

Completed:

Although projects may begin toward the end of a year, the completion date refers to the final inspection and sign-off of the wall.

Architect:

Certain projects have multiple architects involved in the construction of a new recreation facility. Their may be one architect that does the drawings and a different architect that is associated with the university. We display the architect that we work most directly with in the creation of the climbing wall portion of the project – not necessarily the main architect involved in the overall project.

Project Manager:

Certain projects have multiple project managers working on the overall project. One might be the project manager for the aquatics part of the project and one might be on the climbing wall and then there might be one who is an overall project manager. We site the project manager who is most directly associated with the climbing wall portion of the overall project.