The Construction Zone

Step onto the site and the build begins. The Construction Zone is a richly immersive small world experience designed by ESP PLAY to bring the real world of construction into the heart of your early years outdoor provision. The Construction Zone helps children become builders, architects and engineers, deciding what to create, how to create it, and negotiating every step of the way.

Combining tactile foam bricks with authentic real-world materials, including red bricks, breeze block and concrete, the Construction Zone delivers sensory richness and genuine challenge. Every session is different. Every child's build is unique. A shop, a house, a castle, a city, there is no ceiling for what can be imagined or achieved.

Enclosed with authentic orange barrier tape, the same used on real construction sites and complete with construction signage for word recognition and literacy development, this is not just play: it is purposeful, curriculum-connected outdoor learning at its most powerful. A consistent favourite among early years leaders nationwide, the Construction Zone was conceived and created entirely by ESP PLAY as a solution with no limits.

Development areas include fine motor skills, gross motor skills, vocabulary development, communication and language skills, group work and problem solving, knowledge and understanding, problem solving and literacy

SKU: CON-01

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Material Specifications

Laminated Timber

Laminated Timber

Glulam redwood timber poles provide exceptional strength, have a greater resistance to splitting, and offer a high quality smooth finish.

Sawn Timber

Sawn Timber

Sawn redwood timber from FSC sustainable sources, all pressure treated to class 4 after all manufacturing processes have been completed.

Quality Steel Fixings

Quality Steel Fixings

All nuts, bolts, screws and brackets are zinc plated or stainless steel to prevent against corrosion and to ensure longevity and safety.

Steel Cored Ropes

Steel Cored Ropes

Colourful steel cored polypropylene ropes are used to ensure safety, durability, and vandal resistance.

Anti-slip Panels

Anti-slip Panels

Colourful steel cored polypropylene ropes are used to ensure safety, durability, and vandal resistance.

HDPE Panels

HDPE Panels

High Density Polyethylene panel are highly durable and vandal resistant. The multicolored panels allow for intricate designs to be routed for additional play value.

Handholds

Handholds

Large size professional handholds made from resin bound sand with stainless steel threaded inserts and anti-spin secondary fixing point.

Timber Paint

Timber Paint

A high quality, satin finish, oil-based wood stain that is child-friendly and won’t stain clothes or peel away from the timber.

Painted Steelwork

Painted Steelwork

Steelwork is either aluminium or galvanised mild steel and is treated and primed prior to receiving a vibrant painted finish.

Product Labels

Product Labels

Aluminium labels are affixed to all our equipment at quality control stage prior to dispatch. Each label contains our details, the product ID, and year of manufacture.

FSC Sourced Timber

FSC Sourced Timber

We only use timber that has been responsibly sourced from managed forests with the FSC accreditation.

Timber Treatment

Timber Treatment

We pressure treat all our timber with Tanalith E wood preservative after all of our manufacturing processes are complete to class 4 which prevents against all forms of wood decay and insect attack.

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