These systems provide a durable, low-maintenance alternative to natural grass, perfect for sports facilities. Each component, from the base layer to the turf surface, ensures performance, safety, and longevity. This guide helps you make informed decisions on installing or upgrading your turf field.
Thoughtful design and customization, from the base layer to the turf surface, are key to ensuring optimal performance, safety, and long-term durability. This guide will help you navigate the design process, making informed decisions on creating or upgrading your turf field to meet the specific needs of your facility.
Artificial turf is an excellent investment for any type of field, as it withstands heavy foot traffic far better than natural grass and requires little to no recovery time. The following guide provides a comprehensive overview of the costs involved in installing a new artificial turf field, key design considerations, and tips for securing funding.
Synthetic turf field surfacing grants are offered by the public and private sectors. The availability of grant programs varies greatly across states. Read more about turf field funding opportunities in the articles below.
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Many companies install artificial turf sports fields, but not all of them are created equal. Choosing the right company is essential to getting a high-quality installation that will last for years. We have written about important considerations when choosing a turf field installer in the below article.
These systems provide a durable, low-maintenance alternative to natural grass, perfect for sports facilities. Each component, from the base layer to the turf surface, ensures performance, safety, and longevity. This guide helps you make informed decisions on installing an artificial turf field.
Upgrading your sports field with artificial turf through resurfacing is a forward-thinking investment that delivers durability and reduces ongoing maintenance needs. This guide will walk you through the key factors to consider when resurfacing your artificial turf field, ensuring a long-lasting and high-performing facility.
Maintaining a synthetic turf field is much easier and more cost-effective than natural grass, requiring minimal upkeep while still providing a high-quality surface. The following guides offer a detailed look at essential turf maintenance practices, tips for extending the lifespan of your field, and advice on keeping it in top condition year-round.
When planning an artificial turf field project, it’s essential to consider not just performance but also safety, health, and environmental factors. This guide explores key considerations to ensure your turf field meets the highest standards for athlete protection, sustainability, and long-term performance.
Here are some of our tips and tricks that may help you during your artificial turf field installation or resurfacing project.
A quality synthetic turf sports field gives you more up-time because it can take a lot of beating, needs very little recovery time or maintenance, and can endure difficult weather conditions much better than natural grass fields. More up-time also means more opportunities to generate revenue.
Synthetic sports turf fields typically last for around 10 years and during their lifetime they require a lot less maintenance compared to natural grass fields. Less maintenance needs result in reduced maintenance bills. Read more about turf field maintenance guidelines in the article below.
Installing an artificial turf field made up of recycled plastics and rubber is a great way to reduce the carbon footprint. Synthetic turf fields also don’t use any fertilizers and need a lot less watering compared to natural grass. It may be counter-intuitive, but synthetic turf can be a great green choice!
Maybe you’re trying to decide whether to install an artificial turf field or a natural grass field. Or you’ve already decided to go the synthetic route and now you just need to win over a few remaining stakeholders. We know most of the questions you’re going to hear and figure we could save you some time by summarizing the answers you’ll want to give.
Nope, not any more. Some leagues may still require that all competitive games take place on natural grass, but increasingly turf is used for playing and training. Even within those leagues that have a natural grass requirement for games, the teams often have artificial turf in their training facility. It’s more cost-effective, longer-lasting and is every bit as playable (sometimes more so) than natural grass.
If they ever did, it was back in the day when artificial fields felt artificial. The base layers, infill granules and fibers of modern turf fields are all designed to mimic the best parts of natural surfaces.
The playing surface is soft so players do not absorb a greater impact when running or landing than on a natural surface. The traction on artificial turf is designed to let players accelerate and change direction without sticking or sliding.
And, since turf is more consistent and controlled than natural grass, there’s much less risk of the freak injuries of landing on a stone, getting your foot caught temporarily in a divot or having to adjust in a sudden and uncontrolled way to an unexpected bounce.
Yes, definitely. While artificial fields cost more at installation than natural fields, they require less maintenance equipment and manpower than natural fields. They also last longer than natural fields before requiring in-depth maintenance or a complete replacement.
Any sport played on a field can be played on a turf field: soccer, football, lacrosse, baseball, field hockey… you name it. If there’s grass, that grass can be turf.
Because each sport has different playing characteristics, different artificial turf systems work better for some than others. When you start the planning and budgeting process, it helps to know what sport(s) will be taking place on the field. If you don’t know or simply want to keep your options open, go for a multi-use turf system that supports a variety of sports as well as non-sport activities.
Synthetic fields do not require as much water as natural grass, do not require fertilizer or pesticides and do not need to be mowed, which means you won’t be using as much gas. The field itself is made of plastic fibers – petroleum-based, yes, but increasingly recycled – so overall, synthetic fields have a smaller footprint.
Turf fields do retain heat more than natural grass. On hot days, the playing surface – and, therefore, the players – may be hotter than they would be on an adjacent grass field. However, the extra heat will probably not be significant compared to the overall conditions. Even so, this is something the coaches and athletic trainers should be aware of as they plan water breaks and cooling systems (like fans and misters), and educate the athletes on heat safety.
Artificial surfaces and the infill granules are a combination of cork, rubber and synthetic materials, so they should not be ingested. Keeping toddlers, infants and pets off the surface should minimize this risk (and is better for the overall condition of the field).
These are just some of the most frequently asked questions, but you probably have others. Ask us, and on the off chance we don’t know the answer, we promise that we know someone who does!
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