Arrrgust

Photos!

Terraced berm seating @ Championship synthetic fields

Baseball backstop and field progression

Main road bridge abutments...

HQ framing and maintenance roof trusses...

Soccer parking curbs

Framing in sidewalk...

August Aerials

Taken on the 1st, you can see the drainage in the soccer fields and irrigation in baseball, cool!

Last Week

I did manage to get a few shots last week using my cell phone and wife's camera (which is too fancy for me). I now have my trusty little camera back in my possession so stay tuned for more photos of Sports Park construction progress!

This is baseball Quad A. There were was a lot of action happening in this spot late last week. We had field drainage being installed, dugouts being blocked, backstop foundations being built, fence posts going in the ground, and scoreboards being installed!

closeup of the organized chaos...

Looking out over Quad B and A
Quad C

My irrigation pump, its a thing of beauty!

Scoreboard and foulpole...

Week of July 18-22 Photos

Here are some more shots from 2 weeks ago...

Bridge beams installed at soccer parking bridge

Paving the main road in the soccer/championship area

These will be some mighty fine dugouts!

Finishing the concrete floor in the maintenance building

This corner is where the irrigation pump will be housed

Park HQ building with floor poured and interior block wall up

The progression of backstop footer installation

Scoreboard posts going up

Soccer Field Drainage

Hello, happy August 1st. First I would like to apologize for the absence in blog activity. I left my camera in a colleagues truck and it went for a ride to Indianapolis for a week. It had a whole weeks worth of photos on it so I will be posting a series of photo blogs this morning to catch everyone up. There has of course been a lot of activity on site in the last 2 weeks!

This blog is about field drainage in the soccer fields. With the fields being relatively flat (5% grade), we are installing a drainage system to move surface water off the fields in the event of rain. Basically its a 4 inch perforated drain pipe at a fairly shallow depth (12" bottom of trench) backfilled with a pea gravel. The pipe lines are on a 45 degree angle across the field about 20' apart.

The trench grades need to be checked to ensure proper slope for water to flow out

4" perf pipe

Backfilled trench

Installing "trunk line," the lateral lines connect to this pipe which carries it out of field

Close up of pea gravel