| Abstract/Contents: | Includes: Site investigation (soils, derelict land, drainage, rainfall, topography and aspect, services, access, and planning permission); Factors affecting the construction process (weather and ground conditions, rainfall, temperature, other factors, and conclusion); Construction operations (earthworks, drainage works, mechanical excavators, chain excavators, rotating wheel excavators, trenchless drainage, surface drainage, backfill placement, the operation); Materials (clay pipes or tiles, plastic, concrete, pitch fibre, box section drains, standards, backfill, blinding materials, and manholes and silt traps); Cultivations (subsoil cultivation and mole ploughing, surface cultivation, seeding, fertiliser, turfing, sand as a rootzone, and timing); Types of winter games pitch construction (undrained pitches, piped drain pitches, pipe drained and slit drained pitches, sand surfaces over soil, sand-soil surfaces, stone carpet/suspended water table construction, sealed systems, the PAT system, pur-wick system, vacudrain, and Prunty-Mulqueen); Reinforcement materials, Mobile pitches, The choice and design of winter pitch constructions (implementation, design and build contracts, and commissioning and maintenance). |
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