France vs Croatia performance testing
The Changing Face of Turf Consultancy The good ship sports-turf-industry has been sailing a steady course for many years. Developments and innovations come and go, but it mostly appears to remain on an even keel. However, there is something in the water, change is happening, and STRI is at the forefront of that change. Principal consultant, Dr Richard Gibbs, shares his views on how STRI has evolved since the 1980s.
12 / TURF CONSULTANCY
If you had engaged STRI in the 1980s, when the oldest of us still active as consultants in the industry probably started our careers, your experience might have been very different from today. The options for finding a consultancy might have been limited to one or two organisations. The consultancy services delivered will have been heavily focused on formal auditing or inspection of a facility at the request of senior club officials.
Moreover, the consultants might have had only cool season turfgrass experience and be largely confined to the UK market. And there was one other thing you could probably be sure of – there was still a lot of primary sports turf research being carried out for the wider good of the industry such as sand selection, or different types of profile construction and drainage techniques. This type of research was funded largely by various sports governing
