Public Places
The team work on repairs immediately after an event and, with 100% grass cover maintained throughout, put this down to the high quality of the renewal construction
The Nelson Monument, built in 1806, it was the first civic memorial in the UK to the great man
conservation. The refurbishment took large parts of
the park back to how it looked in the 1800s, but also incorporated areas that would be able to take high volumes of foot traffic and infrastructure that comes with large scale events. Almost fifty percent of Glasgow Green
can be given over to large scale public events capable of hosting in excess of 40,000 people, therefore the maintenance required has to be of a high standard and also fit in around the numerous events. The team work on repairs immediately
after an event and, with 100% grass cover maintained throughout, put this down to the high quality of the renewal construction; the plots were designed in such a way to make access easy with good load bearing. The council employs a supervisory team of James Niblock, Kevin Quinn and ‘resident historian’, Charlie Keane. Together with Events Officer, Thomas McGarry, they liaises with all groups who want to make use of the park or host an event. This can be anything from the local university wanting to host weekly frisbee training sessions to full on concerts. By engaging with the groups, it ensures the groundstaff can carry out their maintenance at the right time. A lot of the public events are organised and managed by Glasgow Life, so this does make scheduling their events fairly straightforward. Glasgow played host to the Commonwealth Games in 2014 and Glasgow Green was used as a festival site, allowing close to 500,000 people to make use of the park. The extent of compaction after the games took its toll on the grass surfaces which required two hectares of overseeding and turfing to make sure it was ready for the World Pipe Band Championships taking place twelve days after the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. From the time the site was handed back by the games team, it only allowed four days to repair damaged areas of turf at the Grade 1 arena - an area totalling 2,500m - and returf in time for the
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