CASE STUDY - O’Brien Contractors
PROJECT: New hockey pitch LOCATION: Oswestry School, Shropshire
of a 6,300sq m sand-dressed synthetic grass hockey pitch and included earth modelling, fencing and floodlighting. The pitch was built predominantly for hockey and was
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installed upon an in-situ rubber shock pad on an engineered base and involved the construction of a spectator area, drainage, sub base, fencing and flood lighting. Additional works included access roads and a car parking facility with bollard lighting. The pitch will be used by the school and the local community for hockey and football. Founded in 1407, Oswestry School is one of the oldest non-
denominational schools in England and is an independent, co-educational day and boarding school for pupils between the ages of four and 18. Phil Bowd, bursar at Oswestry School, said: “The end result is spectacular and we’re very pleased with the outcome.”
’Brien Contractors installed a new hockey pitch for the Oswestry School in Shropshire earlier this year. The 15-week, £430,000 project included the construction
The £430,000 project will help the school improve its sports programmes
According to general manager Steve Hillman, one of
the biggest challenges the O’Brien team met with was to make sure the works didn’t disrupt the school and that the construction caused no adverse effects on a live site. O’Brien worked with Andrew Legg – a former consultant
at Strategic Leisure – on the project. The flood lighting was supplied by Christy Lighting while Lee Brothers were contracted to provide the fencing. Andrew Legg said: “O’Brien performed to schedule,
programme and budget and utilised competent sub contractors and suppliers.”
CASE STUDY - TigerTurf
PROJECT: Full-size, professional football pitch LOCATION: Hamilton Academicals Football Club
the Scottish Championship outfit decided to explore the possibility of installing a synthetic playing surface. The north facing pitch at the club’s New Douglas Park stadium had suffered from prolonged exposure to Scottish winter weather, which, when coupled with a demanding fixture schedule, caused rapid deterioration of the natural playing
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hen Scottish football club Hamilton Academical FC experienced a series of winter fixture postponements due to adverse weather conditions,
surface. The wear had a detrimental effect on both the performance and aesthetics of the pitch, which affected the performance of the first team as well as prevented the club from making the pitch available for community use. Following a tender process under an FF/FA/RFU
framework agreement, turf manufacturer TigerTurf UK collaborated with Chieftain Contractors to manufacture and install a high performance football pitch at New Douglas Park. The system chosen for the installation was TigerTurf’s Total Turf 60XQ, which is a leading 3G surface consisting of two unique profiled fibres, which is part-filled with sand and rubber infill. The individual components of the system combine to
provide split resistance along with improved performance, durability and visual characteristics. In addition, with the venue also playing host to elite level rugby, the field had to be fitted with a 23/130 shock pad, which gives the critical fall height protections needed to maintain the required safety standards. Faced with a very short lead time, TigerTurf produced the pitch in three weeks, during which Chieftain prepared the base works for the turf to be installed. From tender to the completion of the installation, the
project took just five weeks. On completion of the £400,000 installation, Shaun Fagan, commercial manager at Hamilton Academicals, said: “Although we had very particular requirements, we were able to interpret the brief we supplied and exceed our requirements with the delivery of the synthetic turf system. “The product itself, Total Turf 60XQ, alongside the
The new pitch will allow games to be played in all weather conditions
additional bespoke anti-flood measures will ensure that we will be able to use our facilities all year round, giving us the potential to increase revenue and have much happier fans and a better training/playing ground for our players.”
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