| How the other half live! on 20:41 - Apr 17 with 266 views | durham_exile |
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| How the other half live! on 10:06 - Apr 18 with 226 views | TheOldOakTree |
| How the other half live! on 20:41 - Apr 17 by durham_exile |
An excellent article. |
Just to clarify, the article shows how a top premiership pitch is built. It’s not relevant to a L1/L2 club.
It’s a shame they only describe the different layers, but don’t show photos or diagrams of how it all works. In the video, you can see all the stacks of plastic pipes, ducting and storage voids that will be used.
The old dock has been filled with sand and you would think that would be good for drainage, but the first layer is an impermeable membrane i.e. a very thick, very tough ‘plastic’ sheet that will stop any water draining into the sub-soil. They don’t want to lose the water into the ground because it is valuable in terms of irrigation, and also because they have to keep adding nutrients that they don’t want to lose into the ground.
The build-up of these modern pitches doesn’t involve topsoil in the same way you would grow spuds in your back garden. It’s half way to hydroponics, a bit like the lettuce in your sarnie has never seen soil. (DON’T watch the video in the next link if you’re a bit girlie about your food!).
https://www.edengreen.com/tech
Top level footy is played on grass which is living in sand and various geotextiles and hence needs constant feeding as there is no ‘goodness’ in the sand. The pay-off for excellent drainage is that the nutrients drain away too quickly as well, and therefore you have to constantly irrigate with fertilizer enriched water, pumping it round and round.
Obviously, this is not only very expensive to build, but also involves very expensive running costs. In terms of electricity to help all this happen, the stadium roof will have over 2000sq.m. of solar panels (that’s almost half an acre!).
https://lbndaily.co.uk/evertons-new-500m-stadium-will-help-save-planet/ |  | | |
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