Our green approach to construction enables Grass Roots to pass on significant cost savings to clients. This means we can help you get considerably more from your sports budget than would otherwise be the case. And it’s soil that helps us do this!
Recreational improvement projects often need vast quantities of soil to be brought onto site, for example:
- Bedrock too close to the surface, means soil is required to alter pitch levels to enable insertion of a new drainage system
- Heavy clay soils impede drainage, so different soil is required to enable new drainage systems
- Sloping ground or uneven pitches often result in player injuries. Additional soil and our expertise allows perfectly level pitches to be provided, almost anywhere
- Golf courses benefit from the importation of new soils which allow more varied and challenging holes to be constructed.
In many cases clubs and local authorities would normally incur huge costs in obtaining soil for their sports projects. However when constructing new sports facilities and pitches, Grass Roots normally re-uses clean, uncontaminated soils and sub-soils from our larger development sites. Recycling soil in this way has two important benefits:
Environmental: Recycling removes the need to transport soil often over long distances, for disposal in valuable landfill sites - taking up space that may be intended for contaminated and municipal waste. Our recycled materials are always sourced as close as possible to our project sites.
Financial: Recycling minimises soil transport and disposal costs as well as environmental impact. This recycling results in cost savings for us and our partner companies. These savings allow us to provide new or additional high quality pitches at no cost to clubs and where possible extra ancillary facilities. For example high spec drainage systems, floodlights, changing rooms, dug outs, goal posts and kit.