Hockey’s Move To Dry Turf Surfaces
With water becoming an ever-scarcer resource that needs to be used responsibly the FIH recognised that today most approved hockey turfs are designed to use 1 l/m2 each time a field is watered – this equates to 6000 Litres per 10-minute cycle.
To move hockey onto a more sustainable footing the FIH announced their next steps;
Waterless Hockey Pitches
The FIH are on the search for the holy grail of playing surfaces – a waterless ‘water based’ pitch!
Successful Results for Sports Labs Clients in South Africa & Namibia
Windhoek Gymnasium Private School Receives World Rugby Certification Sports Labs Ltd undertook a World Rugby Certification re-test at Windhoek Gymnasium Private School. This was for an international rugby 7s tournament the school was hosting. The field is a Rhino-Turf designed system with World Rugby Preferred Producer CCGrass VT60 turf with a Schmitz shock pad on […]
Testing Times: Addressing Regional Standards
As a company, we do a lot of testing. This year we will have examined in excess of 1,200 facilities globally — all subject to a single or a battery of different tests. The largest number of facilities in a region we examine is in the United States where we test over 700 fields per year against the GMax requirements. In Europe, we perform either a FIFA, World Rugby or International Hockey Federation test…