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| Author(s): | Clark, Graeme |
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| Author Affiliation: | Superior Grasse Synthetic Sports Turf (Aust) Pty. Ltd. |
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| Title: | Synthetic surfaces in the 90s |
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| Section: | Synthetic surfaces
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| Meeting Info.: | University of Wollongong, NSW, March 12th, 1990 & Australian Institute of Sport Theatrette, Bruce, ACT, March 15th, 1990 |
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| Source: | Proceedings of the 19th and 20th Turfgrass Management. Vol. 19 & 20, 1990, p. 56-57. |
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| Publishing Information: | Australian Turfgrass Research Institute |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Artificial turf; Futures; Costs; Construction; Standards
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| Abstract/Contents: | "As we move towards the twenty-first century, we find our population placing more and more emphasis on leisure time demanding and attaining less working hours, lower retirement age and early retirement. This greater leisure time places larger strain on our exsisting recreation areas nationwide, both in management and playing surfaces, in all types of sport from football to lawn bowls. This increase or potential increase in the use of our exsisting facilities is placing curators and green keepers in positions where much larger maintenance programs will be required to maintain satisfactory surfaces, thus incurring far greater costs. The smaller the community or club, this may be a great problem as costs will increase according to demand... Today we have available a synthetic turf surface to suit most sports. If a turf is not currently available, we most certainly have the technology to and expertise to develop it to any sports requirements. [There is] no maintenance, no rolling, no watering, very rapid drainage and it is available for play 24 hours a day, every day of the year. The sporting surface application of synthetic turf is now viable when one considers the cost of maintaining a natural surface, over the life span of a synthetic surface. Of course different cost structures would apply to each individual sport according to their requirements. The life span or replacement cycle of synthetic turf varies with different applications, and of course with the amount of use applied to an individual surface. As you can imagine, the demand on a lawn bowls surface would not be as great as a hockey surface." Includes specifications for an example of an artificial bowling green. |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | Other items relating to: REAL |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Clark, G. 1990. Synthetic surfaces in the 90s. p. 56-57. In Proceedings of the 19th and 20th Turfgrass Management. University of Wollongong, NSW, March 12th, 1990 & Australian Institute of Sport Theatrette, Bruce, ACT, March 15th, 1990. Australian Turfgrass Research Institute. |
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