The document provides detailed maintenance guidelines for theme parks in Dubai, focusing on queue line demarcation, guest circulation, and landscaping standards. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining consistent widths for queue lines, proper placement of posts, and aesthetic upkeep of plantings within the park areas. Additionally, it outlines specific pruning and planting techniques to achieve a clean and formal appearance in landscaped zones.

1. DPR
Theme Park
Maintenance
Guidelines
Walter Bone, RLA
Area Development Manager

2. Dubai Parks and Resorts
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Phase 1
Area Development Manager for Motiongate Zone 5 and Legoland Water Park. Services
also included closing out all of Phase 1 Motiongate and Bollywood theme parks.

6. Queue Line Demarcation
February 26, 2017

7. Note door widths and allow for post
and rope clearance.
Note door widths and allow for post
and rope clearance.
Trash bins are portable, do not take
in to account for queue line
arrangement. Operations will
relocate.
Maintain consistent 900 clearance
widths for each queue line. Take in
to account fan posts, GRC theming
rockwork. Measure from outer edge
of any obstruction.
Maintain guest circulation when
demarcating the queues.
Two (2) queue lines with switchback
around the corner. Do not locate
posts blocking theme work.
February 26, 2017

8. Ensure all posts bases are countersunk
and flush with the pavement. Uneven
pavement surfaces shall be ground
down flush.
Maintain consistent queue edging.
No sharp zigzags and all posts are to
be plumb vertical. Do not angle
bases/posts with pavement surface.
D-Ring hooks permitted to be
attached to fan/light posts, minimizing
use of rail posts. Minimize scratches
and damage to post finishes
Posts and rope not required along
planter or walls. Maintain clearance
@ switchback from BOH
maintenance gate and start queue
at lamp post +/-.
February 26, 2017

9. Add 2 posts and rope @ entrance to
visually block entry.
Posts to be located adjacent to
curbing, in line with fence posts.
Survey and locate all planter pist
and locate posts a minimum of
150mm from opening and center.
2 queue lines fit between each planter
pit, maintain 900mm clearance/ea line.
Measure from outermost point of any
obstruction. Posts and rails are not
required along edges of fenced
planters.
Ditto, note no rail along fenced
planters and softscape median of
round planters.
Maintain door clearances
NOTE:
It is anticipated that the queue quantities
may be reduced slightly, important to
maintain queue width consistency and
access for Fast Pass holders.
February 26, 2017

10. Ample room in front, but maintain
clearances for ride exiters, Game
players and washroom visitors.
Note door widths and allow for post
and rope clearance.
Sign fixed, align queue line on outer
edges of any protrusions.
Take in to account the door
opening. Wrap queue around
signage and columns. Locate via
survey all fixed elements. Red paint
on door is themed, don’t be scared.
Double queue line between column
and wall. D-Ring hooks permitted on
columns. Operations will relocated
trash bin. Containment exposed
under trash bin, to be fixed prior to
finalizing queue rail installation.
Two (2) queue lines with switchback
around the corner. Do not locate
posts blocking them work. Note
door opening and requirement to
wrap around.
February 26, 2017
GameGame
Wash
room
Ride queue

11. Maintain ingress/egress clearances to
sidewalk café.
No queue rail needed along building.
Maintain clearance on outside for
passersby. Stop switchback in alignment
with tree grate +/-.
Fan posts to be reinstalled where base
is flush with pavement. Again, all posts
to be vertical and plumb. Do not align
base with pavement slope.
D-Ring hooks on fan posts. Do not
locate posts in front of show props to
prevent photo opps.
February 26, 2017
Maintain clearance for measuring or
height stick. Pull post and rope
behind the downspout and come
out perpendicular to building face.
Operations to confirm D-Ring hook
on building face.
Queue breaks to be
in alignment with
fan posts. D-Ring
hooks permissible
on fan posts.

12. Motiongate Maintenance
Standards & Goals
Site Walk –
Landscape Manager
and Contractor
March 1, 2017 12

13. Motiongate Maintenance Walk 13
Prune and keep manicured effect, prune
to follow slope
TYPICAL STANDARD
Prune bougainvilla, create tiered effect
Create clean and crisp lines between species, prune as needed. Create clean and crisp lines between species, prune as needed.

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TYPICAL STANDARD

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Provide lower clipped hedge at base to showcase
finished appearance.

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Provide lower clipped hedge at base with natural form
of Caeselpena in the center. Prune alternating branches
at varying heights to maintain the natural appearance.
All planters this zone.

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Paint waterproofing black and infill with Leucophyllum
clipped hedge along al fence lines…..Very Smurfy.

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Paint waterproofing black and infill with Leucophyllum frutescens clipped hedge
along al fence lines…..Very Smurfy. Add Clerodenrum enerme along all walk
edges, behind rails, etc to finish out.

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TYPICAL STANDARD
Clean and manicured effect. Note the sand/dirt/mulch
ring around the tree and clean lines between plant
species.

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Clean and manicured effect. Definition of each species
easily seen.
TYPICAL STANDARD

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TYPICAL STANDARD

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1. Typical planting scheme needing to soften edges,
create forested effect;
2. Heirarchy of plantings/tiered;
3. Transplant lower groundcovers to rock edges, fill in
with mid-level shrubs and back drop to be tall
shrubs;
4. BOH plantings can be substituted with Sesuvium
portulaca to spread fast covering the ground plane.

34. PROPOSED SECTION thru ADVENTURE
RIVER
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TYPICAL STANDARD

35. Bollywood
Maintenance Standards & Goals
Site Walk –
Landscape Manager
(Ian Genter) and
Contractor (ARCO)
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36. November 26, 2017 36
Retain cascading effect of
pots
Maintain clean formal appearance. No
palm beards, keep clean and tidy

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Remove lower hanging
fronds from the Foxies.
Rotate bamboo stake to
back side and change out
plastic wrap with thin layer
of hessian
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X

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Seasonal color along edges, shifting
from back side. Transplant densely
planted shrubs and fill in to create
solid mass

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Transplant Bouganvillea against
wall and relocate seasonal color in
front.
Bouganvillea
Seasonal Color or
Clerodendrum

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Allow horizontal branching to
spread creating shade canopy
Conitinue along low wall to
screen BOH
Add 3 more trees to screen BOH

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Tiered/hierarchy from low
seasonal on edges to taller shrub
in center.
Clipped evergreen hedge –
Leucophyllum or Clerodendrum?

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Prune and train back drop
shrubs to provide full screen
hiding BOH sand area

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Remove and transplant red
fountaingrass

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Relocate shrubs to create
backdrop. Push seasonal color
forward towards curb

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Exchange pots from this terrace
to the small white un-themed
pots in the arrival plaza.

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Create hedge along sloped/stepped wall.
Maintain consistent height, stair-stepping
down along ramp.
Infill with transplants here – Option 1
Along back side, in alignment with trees
for irrigation
Stair-step planter hedges

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Maintain consistent height, stair-stepping
down along ramp.

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Create clipped hedge, more formal look

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AllowAllow Sesuvium and Wedelia to
creep in and cover dirt path, Maintain
clearance around spot light

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Allow tree canopies to fill out and close
off space. Allow only partial or filtered
views through

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Take small clippings of Sesuvium from
other plants to upper left and plant at
300mm on center to fill in sandy areas.

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Maintain clean pruned edges and angle
pruning with the slope. Accentuate the
slope adding more drama

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Backfill with 100mm beige decorative
Back Of House (BOH) gravel. FM has
extra.

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Backfill with 100mm beige decorative
Back Of House (BOH) gravel. FM has
extra.

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Backfill with 100mm beige decorative
Back Of House (BOH) gravel. FM has
extra.

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Clean up and remove all deadwood from
trees.

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Train canopy by pruning to create a mushroom-like
top. Allow to overhang by 1500mm past the inside
edge of planter to provide shade for benches
1500 mm