Geosynthetics in Sports Engineering

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Sports stadiums generate significant media attention, for their cultural place in a city, their economic impact, their importance to the competitiveness of a team, their fairness of play, and design aesthetics and sustainability. While a stadium’s physical footprint, façade, and construction materials (e.g., glass, local stone, etc.) get a good deal of popular coverage, the quality of sport fields is often connected to the polymeric materials industry. This includes many types of geosynthetics and affiliated materials such as synthetic turf.
These fields are crucial to fair and consistent play. They also are important for water management, since fields of play must drain properly to ensure playability.
The volume of polymeric materials used in sports engineering projects are seldom significant. A field hockey or international football pitch is tiny compared to a 300-acre, multi-cell landfill; but the importance of these materials in sport design remain important to performance and success.
In the slideshow above, we highlight a number of the ways geosynthetics are improving sporting fields, competition, and sustainability.