Sprung timber sports floors for the Tauranga Indoor Sports and Exhibition centre are to be paid for by a $300,000 NZ Lottery Grants Board donation.
Lottery is the third major partner to come on board the project, after significant grants from City Partners TECT and the Perry Foundation.

The TISEC is a new nine-court community sports centre situated beside the outdoor stadium at Baypark, Mount Maunganui. Construction of the $41 million project is expected to begin early in 2010.
Sprung timber sports floors are carefully engineered to meet the ratings of an international standard called DIN 18032 Part 2.
The standard measures ball rebound as a percentage of rebound compared to dropping a ball onto concrete from 1 metre high. This is important for basketball but not so much for netball, badminton and volleyball.
Also included in the standard is rolling load behaviour, which measures the floor's ability to withstand loads, imposed by non athletic things such as retractable seating and portable backboards.
Area Indentation measures how well the energy transferred from the athlete to the floor is contained during impact. A smaller area of transmission is better than a large one.
Force Reduction – more commonly known as shock absorption, indicates the level of comfort the surface will provide to the athletes.
Vertical Deflection is another shock absorption measure which relates to ensuring the flooring system doesn't bottom out, or compress, to the point its stiffness becomes unacceptable.
Friction and slip resistance are other considerations. Too little friction causes excessive sliding and makes changing direction difficult. Both too much or too little friction increases players' risk of joint injury.
The TISEC three-court hall will have a fully compliant surface. The centre court will be of very high grade beech, maple or similar hardwoods. To save money the two adjacent courts have slightly lower grade timbers of the same species.
The six court hall will have lower grade hardwood flooring over courts including two metre end runoffs and 1.5 metre side runoffs outside the four end courts. The runoff zones are where players are likely to still land with force.
The band about four metres round the outside of the court surfaces will be more rigidly constructed of strandboard, similar to particle board, to take heavier loads such as scissor lifts and forkhoists. There are considerable cost savings with this system too. These machines will need protective plywood under them when in use on the sportsfloor proper.
The six court hall has a forced subfloor ventilation system, but the three court hall does not require it.