SPORTSURF 7th Workshop

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The 7^th SportSURF workshop was held on Wednesday 4^th March 2009 at Loughborough University Sport Technology Institute, Loughborough, UK. The focus of the seminar was ‘Maintaining Performance of Synthetic Surfaces’.

This one day event comprised an industry focussed seminar describing best practice and technical aspects of the maintenance of synthetic sport surfaces, explaining case studies and raising issues for discussion and debate. The workshop was supported by SAPCA.

Approximately 45 delegates attended the workshop from a wide variety of backgrounds, and several attendees from Europe. Below are copies of the presentations given at the workshop:

Please note: these presentations are for information only and the data/information cannot be used without the consent of their authors.

• Nick Harris - Technical Surfaces - Surface Maintenance - Processes and Importance
• Paul Fleming/Mark Freeman - Loughborough University - Best Practice, Observation and Evolution
• Kathryn Severn - Loughborough University - Science of Synthetic Turf Surfaces
• Iain James - Cranfield University - Maintenance of Performance in Surfaces
• Gert jan Kieft - ISA Sport - Quality Monitoring of 50 Artificial Turf Football Fields
• Colin Young - SAPCA - Maintenance: Cost benefits
• Eric O Donnell - Sportslabs - missing presentation pdf
• Summary overview of some of the key points from the presentations

If you would like any other information from the workshop please contact the network coordinator on sportsurf@lboro.ac.uk.