The former owner of Action Sports NZ, Co-owner and Managing Director of Sports Technology Int NZ Ltd, Shaun provides extensive experience and expert knowledge in the delivery of elite competition and training facilities, including the construction and installation of a wide range of local and international synthetic sporting surface projects including numerous Olympic and Commonwealth Game facilities. She has full responsibility for the finance and administration activities in the Asia Pacific region, covering both the production and construction activities of the group.
After obtaining her qualifications and returning from a secondment in the UK, she left to join the National Foods corporate office in Sydney. After 12 months, she took up a position in the newly formed Dairy Foods Division and moved to Melbourne. Throughout his career, Jim has been responsible for the development, manufacture, and distribution of a wide range of products that include polyurethane CASE applications, acrylic coatings, polyurethane intermediates, and synthetic turf for virtually every commercial application.
FIFA Quality certified surfaces must adhere to strict quality requirements which are applied to improve the game and protect players, clubs and associations. These standards are based on scientific research into many disciplines such as players needs, aspects of safety, performance, durability, quality assurance and player comfort. To ensure these playing surfaces provide a environment that will not increase the risk of injury to players; are of adequate durability providing they are adequately maintained FIFA developed the FIFA Quality Programme for Football Turf.
The FIH is the international governing body of field hockey worldwide. FIH certified hockey fields are tested and approved as meeting the current International Hockey Federation standards. Polytan surfaces have also been used for Olympic and Commonwealth Game hockey events, having provided the surfaces for the last 5 Olympics.
The FIH ensures all certified hockey pitches are manufactured and installed with the highest quality in mind for hockey players. Polytan is one of the select few companies who are a preferred producer, who can meet the requirements set out in the FIH quality programme for hockey turf.
In addition to meeting FIH Certified Manufacturers and Field Builders criteria, FIH Preferred Suppliers are also required to comply with a global commitment to providing high quality hockey pitches suited for international, national and community based clubs all around the world.
Additional FIH facility guidance resources can be found here. ITF is targeted at those venues where the standard of play demands the specification of precise playing characteristics, e.
ITF Recognition is retained until the court is resurfaced or for 10 years, whichever is the sooner, however, the results are only valid for the day of testing. Properties of the court may change, due to factors such as ambient conditions, use and maintenance.
ITF Recognition. These tests include those for durability, joint strength, resistance to weathering, ball roll and bounce, hardness, traction and abrasion. Certified ovals must meet a second stage of testing that occurs on site once the project is complete. Once the synthetic surface is laid and infilled, the final playing surface will:. Testing is undertaken on a variety of points on the field to ensure compliance across the facility.
The development of synthetic turf surfaces to replicate the playing qualities of excellent natural turf for Rugby League is overseen by this standard. Introduction of the standard is to allow fields to sustain much higher levels of use and increased participation in the game of Rugby League. The Rugby Football League Limited has commissioned the development of performance and construction standards for synthetic turf Rugby League pitches. This governance ensures these new forms of surface provide a satisfactory playing environment that offer durability and will not increase the risk of injury to players.
The standards have been prepared by an independent laboratory specialising in the testing of sports surfaces. Click the link to view the full Performance and Construction Standards for Synthetic Turf Rugby League competition and training pitches. Rugby Union has historically been played on natural grass. There is recognition by the World Rugby Board that it is necessary in some parts of the world for rugby to be played on synthetic turf, where climatic conditions often result in natural grass surfaces becoming badly worn and unsuitable in winter.
A World Rugby Handbook has further information about the use of artificial rugby turf requirements. This document sets a minimum standard for synthetic turf playing surfaces which may be used in rugby, offering a solution to those parts of the world where climate or resources make good quality natural grass pitches difficult or impossible to achieve. For fields to be certified by World Rugby, they must comply with these high standards. Polytan guarantee our surfaces meet Artificial Rugby Turf Performance Specification requirements every time.
The IAAF set special requirements for athletics tracks to be measured, tested and certified to ensure competitors experience the best surface performance. The IAAF has established the requirements for synthetic athletic tracks to be measured, tested and certified many years ago. We're on the rise! Tom Mairs cheers on Olympic hockey player. Why is there water on the hockey field at the Rio Olympics?
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Players have to manoeuvre around the water sprinklers, and spectators may have to move to avoid being sprinkled, depending on wind direction. Potentially, water can be wasted. Depending on wind direction, some of the water may drift away from the hockey field and onto spectators, the car park and sometimes missing some of the hockey pitch.
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