Sports Ground Management: A Complete Guide

ISBN-13: 9781847970947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 384 str.

Stewart Brown

Opis

All sports players, at whatever level, need quality surfaces on which to play, and constructing, preparing, and maintaining surfaces are all essential tasks carried out by professional groundspersons.However, although looking afterthe playing surfaces is of crucial importance, the modern sports ground manager requires a large range of other skills and knowledge.There are resources to manage, events to organize and run, and a myriad of legislative and regulatory requirements to cope with.Topics covered include procurement, contract mangaement, strategy, management plans, and performance standards; event management and health and safety; sports ground constuction, devlopment, and resourcing; mechanization, material, and equipment arrangement; the contruction and maintenance of many different kinds of sports pitches and surfaces including winter games pitches, bowling greens, croquet lawns, cricket pitches, tennis courts, horse racing tracks, polo fields, synethic turf pitches, and athletic tracks; and guidance concerning landscape, environmental, and watermanagement. "