Sagunto opens tender for €208,000 upgrade to inline hockey rink
Sagunto City Council has put out to tender, for €208,063, the renovation of the inline hockey rink at the Municipal Sports Centre, replacing its flooring and fencing.
The work is part of the maintenance programme for the Polideportivo Municipal (the town's multi-site sports centre) and will replace the playing surface — a type known as Stilmat — along with the perimeter fencing: new tempered-glass panels, skirting boards and top handrails. New goals with nylon nets will also be installed, and the rink will be marked out according to Spain's official regulations for sports facilities (NIDE). The works are expected to take 45 days, and interested companies have twenty days from the publication of the notice to submit bids through Spain's State Contracting Platform.
Councillor for Physical Activity, Health and Sports Javier Timón said the upgrade, developed together with the Club de Patinaje Alas de Sagunto (a local skating club), aims to bring the rink up to the standards of Spain's Royal Hockey Federation for elite categories, since clubs use it five to six hours a day. Inline hockey, a summer variant of ice hockey played on inline skates over a hard surface, is regulated in Spain under the international World Skate federation. According to aytosagunto.es, with additional background from Wikipedia.