NOTTS SPORT football & rugby surfacing

Notts Sport designs full-size artificial football and rugby pitches for everyone from professional clubs, through to primary schools wishing to offer their pupils improved coaching facilities.

As your specialist synthetic pitch designer, Notts Sport works with you to offer surfacing solutions to fulfil your requirements – and to comply with current FA, FIFA and World Rugby performance standards.

Through close association with selected specialist manufacturers, we provide our widest possible range of 3rd Generation (3G) synthetic grasses designed for football and rugby. This ensures that the right choice of artificial grass surface is always available for the level of sport you wish to offer.

This also offers wider scope for providing a facility that meets your budget now, and fits within your budgeted maintenance and lifetime costs.


ShockWave Platinum & ECOBASE system

ShockWave Platinum is “not just a shockpad”. It reduces the base construction requirements and eliminates the need for separate macadam and shockpad layers.

FIFA and World Rugby compliant systems require 5kg of performance infill so using ShockWave halves the amount of microplastics needed when using SBR Rubber Crumb. 

Using a non-SBR infill reduces the amount of performance infill therefore reducing costs to the customer which is a key consideration as there is impending environmental restrictions affecting the current use of SBR rubber as a performance infill in AGPs. In terms of player experience, there is no system that competes with ShockWave for player safety. The system offers over 2.2m Critical Fall Height when tested to the requirements for World Rugby Reg 22. In addition to the head to turf impact safety, the system is not “soft” underfoot so provides a shock absorbent but firm player interaction with a high-quality turf.

The independent World Rugby accredited test house, noted that no other system offers the combination of performance criteria across shock absorbency, critical fall height and vertical deformation.

As such, we can confidently claim that ShockWave Platinum and the associated ShockWave EcoBase system offer unparalleled benefits across any number of measures including (but not limited to):

  • Playing Performance Characteristics
    - Unrivalled & unique performance for rugby pitches across a combined range of test requirements (shock absorbency, CFH, vertical deformation etc)

  • Player Safety
    - 2m+ Critical Fall Height when tested to World Rugby requirements

  • Environmental Impact
    - Reducing quarried aggregates by 50%+
    - Omitting macadam entirely
    - Reducing CO2 impact due to the reduction in quarrying, articulated vehicle movements, installation of macadam & rubber shockpads etc

  • Sustainability
    - 100% Fully recyclable with 15% (min) content recycled in every ShockWave tile

  • Life Costs
    - 30 year Performance Warranty = on average 3 artificial grass cycles

To find out more about ShockWave and ShockWave EcoBase visit here.

 

cASE sTUDY:
ST Albans Girls’ School