Added: 14TH june 2024
After a slow start to the project due to the relentlessly wet ground conditions through the spring, Turfdry’s sports pitch construction project at Crest Nicholson’s Highlands Park development in Henley-on-Thames has made fantastic progress in recent weeks.
Following the screening of the material on site, and the removal of detritus from the pitch plateau area, the team was able to get to work spreading the mountain of imported topsoil over the finished sub-base. A good depth of high-quality topsoil is vital to the construction of a natural turf sports pitch, and with the paucity of available material on-site, the importing of additional material was crucial to the success of this project.
Using machines linked with GPS control systems to the 3D design model, the fresh topsoil has been efficiently and accurately spread across the pitch plateau sub-base. An excavator equipped with a Rototilt attachment will now finish the plateau batters and tidily work the pitches into the surrounding ground.
As a result of the delayed start of the earthworks phase of the project, combined with the lack of irrigation infrastructure on-site, it has been decided that the seeding works for this project would be best left until the end of the summer/start of the autumn, to ensure that any hot and dry periods that might yet come do not negatively impact the development of the grass sward during the crucial establishment phase. However, be sure to check back in later in the year to catch up with the drainage, cultivation, and seeding works!
