Surface Testing

There are many ways of quantifying the performance of sports surfaces in order to inform their management and improvement.  We are able to undertake all of those commonly undertaken for natural turf surfaces and some for artificial surfaces including:

• Sward composition and ground cover - Sport England requirement
• Shoot density
• Sward height - Sport England requirement
• Green speed (golf) - using the Stimpmeter
• Hardness - using the Clegg Impact Soil Tester as required by Sport England
• Evenness (profiling - natural and artificial surfaces) - Sport England requirement
• Waviness (natural and artificial surfaces)
• Slope - using laser levelling techniques - - Sport England requirement
• Carpet quality (eg tuft density, pile height, dTex etc - artificial surfaces)
• ​Surface levels (3D Surveys) - ​​ Surface levels almost always need to be assessed for sports pitch development projects.  We can undertake levels surveys ourselves over small areas or arrange for our surveyor to carry out a comprehensive survey that will be useful throughout a project.

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Measurement of hardness, evenness and moisture content on natural turf surface