Our dedicated sports turf management team is driven by a singular mission: to deliver top-quality playing surfaces that consistently enable peak performance for your athletes. We understand that a superior playing field is fundamental to the integrity of the game and the safety of your players. We ensure your facilities remain in pristine condition and are ready for play year-round.Â
What is Sports Turf Management?
Sports turf management is a specialised and comprehensive process. It involves overseeing your sports turf surfaces, and can be as simple or as detailed as your budget allows. Some of our sports turf management services include:Â
- Development and implementation of ongoing turf maintenance programs
- Consulting and auditsÂ
- Turf renovations, including aeration, scarifying and resurfacing
- Sports turf surfaces construction and turf establishment
- Turf nutrition programs
- Pest, disease and weed control
- Irrigation and drainage assessments, upgrades and maintenanceÂ
- Turf wicket maintenance
- Preparation for competitions and eventsÂ
- Line marking
- Top dressing
When you first connect with us, our process begins with a comprehensive on-site assessment of your facility. We’ll meticulously evaluate the current state of your sports turf, focusing on its overall presentation, usage patterns, and safety standards. Our team will identify specific areas for improvement, carefully assess the efficiency of your irrigation system, analyse soil nutrition, measure thatch levels, and more. This detailed examination allows us to gain a complete understanding of your unique needs.
From this thorough assessment, we’ll collaborate closely with you to develop a customised and comprehensive sports turf management program, supported by a dedicated team of our experts. For you, this means consistently having a top-quality sports turf surface that’s ready for exceptional play year-round.
How is Sports Turf Management Different From Sports Turf Maintenance?
While often used interchangeably, the terms “sports turf maintenance” and “sports turf management” carry distinct meanings. Sports turf maintenance encompasses all the ongoing, hands-on tasks essential for cultivating and preserving a top-quality playing surface.Â
In contrast, sports turf management is a comprehensive service that encompasses every aspect of maintenance, including strategic planning, oversight, and crucial elements such as meticulous preparation for specific events and competitions. This means management considers the bigger picture, ensuring the turf isn’t just healthy, but perfectly optimised for every game and season.
Sports Turf Consultation Services
If your sports turf isn’t performing as it should, or if you simply need expert guidance on maintaining your sports surfaces, our team is here to provide a sports turf consultation. Our dedicated sports turf consultants offer a specialist service specifically designed to equip you with the crucial information needed to ensure your playing surface is performing at its absolute optimum. We’re committed to helping you understand the nuances of your turf’s health and performance.
Whether you’re overseeing grounds at a school, managing a large sporting stadium, or looking to expand an existing local sports field, we can assess your current situation and outline the precise steps required to get your surface into tip-top shape. Our first step involves an on-site visit where we’ll focus on any areas needing particular attention. During this assessment, we’ll thoroughly examine aspects like current condition and performance, usage patterns, turf health, irrigation efficiency, existing maintenance issues, and soil compaction, among others. Following this, we’ll provide you with a detailed report and a proposed plan to help your surfaces reach their full potential, ultimately making them more cost-effective for you in the long term.
Beyond consultations, we also boast a fully resourced construction team ready to tackle the building of new sports turf facilities. If you’re considering expanding or developing new fields, we can provide invaluable assistance in determining the correct way forward, ensuring your project is a success from the ground up.
Our Sports Turf Management Services
We proactively prepare surfaces for success, taking into account crucial factors like prevailing weather conditions, anticipated periods of heavy player use, and the time of year. By strategically completing necessary renovations before minor issues escalate, we prevent the need for costly and disruptive total overhauls. We know that a poorly constructed or inadequately maintained field is not only a detriment to performance but also a significant recipe for disaster regarding player safety.
Achieving these high standards is possible thanks to our team’s deep expertise in all aspects of sports turf. We seamlessly integrate extensive knowledge, years of experience, cutting-edge new technology, and environmentally conscious sustainable solutions to consistently deliver the best possible results for your sports facilities.
Interested in Working with our Sports Turf Management Team?
Preparing surfaces for sport is one of the most satisfying careers you could embark on. Planning your surface is a lot more than just cutting grass – although that’s pretty satisfying on some of our cool turf mowers. It’s about compaction, cricket wicket preparation (how many runs will the future Steve Smith score on the wicket you prepared), adapting the surface to the variety of sports played today and their individual requirements.Â
With a sports turf qualification, you’ll become an expert in specialised turf establishment and maintenance, irrigation systems, how to operate our turf machinery and even how to manage those pesky pests. It’s a challenging but deeply satisfying role.Â
What Will I be Doing When I’m Qualified?
When you work with the Solutions+ turf management team, you have the potential to become a Team Leader, a Turf Curator, even a Green Keeper with our golf team.Â
You can expect to be responsible for maintaining high-grade sports turf, and also amenity turf. You will know how to establish and maintain turf, analyse soil and turf nutrition, operate specialised machinery and equipment, and control pests and weeds. You will oversee a team of people and ensure all landscape maintenance duties are being carried out and you will be a mentor to our young apprentices. That’s just some of why a career after competing your Cert III in Sports Turf Management will be so exciting.Â
Head to our careers page to see roles currently available, or you can get in touch with us by clicking here.
