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All sports persons and players 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 after the playing surfaces is of crucial importance, the modern sports ground manager requires 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:· The essential elements of sports ground management and administration· Procurement, contract management, strategy, management plans and performance standards· Event management and health and safety· Sports ground construction, development and resourcing· Mechanization, material and equipment management· The construction 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, synthetic turf pitches and athletics tracks· Guidance concerning landscape, environmental and waste management AUTHOR: Stewart Brown is Team Leader for Sportsturf at Myerscough College in Lancashire, England, which is one of the largest providers of sportsturf education in Europe. He teaches a range of turf maintenance and management subjects and has been employed in the area for over twenty-eight years as a researcher, consultant and a regular contributor to the trade press. He regularly speaks at events and conferences. ILLUSTRATIONS: 50 colour photos 50 diagrams and drawings

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Stewart Brown is Team Leader for Sportsturf at Myerscough College, in Lancashire, England, which is one of the largest providers of sportsturf education in Europe. He has been employed within the sportsturf and amenity horticulture indsutries for over twenty-eight years and is a researcher, a consultant, a regular contributor to the trade press, and a frequent speaker at events and conferences. Stewart is author of Sports Turf & Amenity Grassland Management [Crowood 2005], is a Fellow of both the Institute of Groundmanship and the Higher Education Academy, and is a member of the Institute of Learning. Resident - Lancashire

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