Playground Climbing Tower Design Requirements

[Boiler106]

Is anyone aware of a reference for playground equipment design requirements in the united states?

I have a 28ft tall steel climbing tower that i will be reviewing, shortly, and I'm primarily looking for live load requirements.

 

[SWComposites]

typing "playground equipment design standards" into Google comes up with lots of relevant documents. CPSC docs, ASTM stds, etc.

 

[Lomarandil]

By climbing tower, do you mean artificial rock walls, or another type of climbing?

If you aren't concerned about sharpening the pencil too much, construction worker live loads (250lbf vertical & 50 lbf horizontal) would be a decent starting point for the latter.

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[TLHS]

I suspect it's not a 28 foot tall climbing wall on a playground... but actually if it were a climbing wall, the climbing wall association has a design spec for it with suggested loads!

https://www.cwapro.org/products/engineering-specifications