A water-based hockey turf in Mount Roskill, Auckland, covering 6,000 square metres. It was built as a renewal for Mt Roskill Grammar and the local hockey community, replacing the old turf and shockpad.
The build was difficult. A creek runs along the halfway line, and the bridge over it was not strong enough to take the construction machinery, so the turf was laid in two halves. Concrete was laser screeded over the bridge, and the asphalt was paved up against it to a tolerance of 3mm, which matters on a surface where the ball has to run true across the halfway line. The drainage was designed around the creek's flow in floods, and large trees on the western boundary were dug around by hand while the fence and root barrier went in.
The finished turf has lighting that averages 500 lux, new dugouts, a warm-up turf and additional carparking.