Hydra is a small island off the coast of Greece that is a prominent tourist destination that preserves its historical integrity. The picturesque island features cobblestone streets, charming taverns, and blue-watered beaches. While tourism brings many people from around the world to Hydra, the island sustains its own municipal population of just under 2,000 residents as well. Hydra offers a tranquility driven by a ban on all vehicles ranging from cars to bicycles. A preservation order sustains Hydra’s antique appeal and unique charm.
A few years ago Act Global had the opportunity to construct a professional quality football pitch for the residents of Hydra. Voted the “most beautiful” field in Greece, the synthetic turf system also offers substantial safety and performance benefits. The artificial grass is engineered and tested to offer a superior playing surface for the players by offering a surface that is fast under the foot and provide sufficient firmness to limit fatigue injuries to the lower extremities of the player’s body. The synthetic turf system also provides proper Rotational Resistance (traction) to ensure foot stability and to enable quick release of the shoes during rotation and traction movements. The surface also maintains consistent and uniform ball-to-surface interaction for superior ball control.
Act Global is committed to bringing the highest quality turf surfaces to people across the world, inspiring health and happiness through the power of active play.
Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
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Lakeside High School is a public high school located in the quaint western Riverside town of Lake Elsinore, California, and home of the Lancers. Earlier this year we had the opportunity to work with our outstanding partners at The KYA Group and Greenplay Organics to craft multiple beautiful, safe, and environmentally friendly sports fields for Lakeside High School. The new multipurpose fields are composed of artificial grass that is designed for professional play and offers quicker recovery from fatigue, ideal balance of shock absorption and vertical deformation, and a high yarn density for player comfort. This gives the Lancer football, baseball, softball, and soccer teams a stable and long-lasting sports system.
Greenplay recently traveled to Lake Elsinore, California to meet with Lakeside High School about the performance of the new fields. While there, they filmed some stunning aerial footage as well as an interview with the school’s Athletic Director, David Drake. In the video, Drake explains why Greenplay’s organic infill was the perfect choice for Lakeside High School’s new fields and how the organic material aids in keeping fields cooler without sacrificing playability or performance.
Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
Exeter College is a tertiary college in Exeter, England that provides an array of courses and services to the community for students ages 14 to adulthood. The college offers an environment in which teaching, learning, and student success are a top priority; at Exeter, success is defined both within and outside the classroom. These efforts have culminated in a well-rounded student body with excellent exam grades, distinguished sports, music, art, and community achievements, and exemplary training successes.
The sports academy at Exeter College allows athletes to immerse themselves in their respected sport and receive a comprehensive training schedule and detailed training programs to advance their technical, tactical, mental, and physical skills. The academy offers 13 different sports with some offering varying levels of competition.
Exeter College football just added an immaculate synthetic turf surface to its collection of resources for its athletes. Verde Recreo Ltd. completed the design and build of the new artificial grass facility that features Act Global’s Xtreme Turf and TLC LED floodlighting from Musco Lighting. Not only does the field glow bright and beautiful, but the turf also offers substantial safety components for elevated playability and performance. With a precise balance between shock absorption and deformation, ideal rotational resistance (traction), and consistent and uniform ball-to-surface interactions, Act Global’s synthetic football turf maximizes player safety and comfort to reduce the most common injuries related to fatigue. This is why Act Global football turf has been selected as the surface of choice within top facilities across the world and has earned partnerships with elite professional leagues.
The Exeter College football teams will be breaking in the new turf in practice on Monday.
Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
Act Global is thrilled for the American Sports Builders Association (ASBA) 2017 Technical meeting to be kicking off tomorrow in New Orleans. The city is full of rich cultural history, beautiful architecture, and is home to the New Orleans Saints stadium: The Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Act Global was honored to be selected as the synthetic turf surface for the facility earlier this year and is eager to check out the system while in the city.
The Superdome has been home to the New Orleans Saints since 1975, but how much do you know about the stadium? Did you know:
The Mercedes-Benz Superdome is home to the largest indoor turf field in the country at 111,831 sqft.
The Superdome covers 70 acres of land and has a football seating capacity of 76,468. Due to its size, the Superdome is one of the major tourist destinations in the United States.
The synthetic turf surface of the Superdome was manufactured and installed by Act Global.
The NFL has hosted seven Super Bowls at the Superdome, most recently Super Bowl XLVII in 2013.
The Superdome has developed a reputation for being one the loudest arenas in the NFL due to the increased excitement of fans since its reopening in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
The turf surface is designed to enable proper foot traction and (just and importantly)
The grass yarns in this high face weight system would stretch for roughly 25,213,240 feet or about 4,775 miles. That is the approximate distance between the Superdome and Madrid, Spain!
While Act Global leads with advances in player safety and performance, looks still matter!
Act Global’s brand was also featured in last season’s Super Bowl and NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas and is being utilized at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis (hone of this season’s Super Bowl).
While mostly known for hosting the New Orleans Saints, the Superdome also hosts the Allstate Sugar Bowl, R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl and famous acts such as U2, Taylor Swift, and George Strait. Let’s not forget the upcoming Monster Truck Jam and Wrestlemania 34!
Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
The FIFA Goal project was created in 1999 to offer tailor-made programs to suit individual country needs to advance football within the country with a high quality, fully outfitted field. In 2015, a FIFA Goal Development project for the British Virgin Islands Football Federation went out to bid. This was possible through land leased from the local government and support from the surrounding neighborhood. The project helped create jobs for local laborers, provide a safe place for children to play football, and establish a focal point for the community to gather within the new stadium.
The Caribbean island of Tortola has experienced destructive weather during this hurricane season. Heavy rains in August contributed to mudslides, flooding, and power outages. In September both Category 5 hurricane Irma and hurricane Maria caused extensive structural devastation throughout the island- “Tortola has lost 95 percent of its buildings, telecommunications capacity, most of its infrastructure and all vehicles”.
The FIFA Goal football pitch designed and installed by Act Global also suffered significant damage from the storms. The project manager for the field recently visited the site to observe and record the destruction produce and to work with FIFA and BVIFA to evaluate the damages. On site, it was observed that a large quantity of flying debris caused heavy contamination of the infill with glass shards, rocks, plastics, and other sharp objects that pose a serious safety concern. However, the base work remained intact throughout multiple storms and continued to perform as designed and drain remarkably well.
As the rebuilding and rehabilitation of the island of Tortola continues, Act Global will work to ensure the members of the community have a safe football pitch, free of damage and debris.
Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
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Hydra is a small island off the coast of Greece that is a prominent tourist destination that preserves its historical integrity. The picturesque island features cobblestone streets, charming taverns, and blue-watered beaches. While tourism brings many people from around the world to Hydra, the island sustains its own municipal population of just under 2,000 residents as well. Hydra offers a tranquility driven by a ban on all vehicles ranging from cars to bicycles. A preservation order sustains Hydra’s antique appeal and unique charm.
A few years ago Act Global had the opportunity to construct a professional quality football pitch for the residents of Hydra. Voted the “most beautiful” field in Greece, the synthetic turf system also offers substantial safety and performance benefits. The artificial grass is engineered and tested to offer a superior playing surface for the players by offering a surface that is fast under the foot and provide sufficient firmness to limit fatigue injuries to the lower extremities of the player’s body. The synthetic turf system also provides proper Rotational Resistance (traction) to ensure foot stability and to enable quick release of the shoes during rotation and traction movements. The surface also maintains consistent and uniform ball-to-surface interaction for superior ball control.
The FIFA Goal project was created in 1999 to offer tailor-made programs to suit individual country needs to advance football within the country with a high quality, fully outfitted field. In 2015, a FIFA Goal Development project for the British Virgin Islands Football Federation went out to bid. This was possible through land leased from the local government and support from the surrounding neighborhood. The project helped create jobs for local laborers, provide a safe place for children to play football, and establish a focal point for the community to gather within the new stadium.
The FIFA Goal football pitch designed and installed by Act Global also suffered significant damage from the storms. The project manager for the field recently visited the site to observe and record the destruction produce and to work with FIFA and BVIFA to evaluate the damages. On site, it was observed that a large quantity of flying debris caused heavy contamination of the infill with glass shards, rocks, plastics, and other sharp objects that pose a serious safety concern. However, the base work remained intact throughout multiple storms and continued to perform as designed and drain remarkably well.