SportEng secures NSC Sports and Climate Change Award 2022

The 2022 Australian Sport, Recreation and Play Innovation Awards organised by the National Sports Convention has awarded civil engineering ‘Fields of Play’ specialists SportEng, (in collaboration with the city of Boroondara) for their work on recycled glass sand for natural turf sportsfields.

The Awards - presented in Melbourne on the opening day of the National Sports and Physical Activity Convention - celebrated innovations in growing participation in 10 specific categories and were presented in front of an audience of 350 convention attendees.

The Sports & Climate Change Award 2022 rewards innovations that organisations have embraced that recognise the impact that sport can have on climate change on how they have focused on reducing their carbon footprint.

SportEng was competing with several other projects and won a first-place alongside Belgravia Health and Leisure Group and their Ascot Vale Leisure Centre's journey towards carbon neutral.

The awarded submission from SportEng was about their research on the use of recycled glass sand as a growing medium for natural turf Fields of Play, and how this could lead to a major step forward in promoting positive environmental impacts.

SportEng explain “the use of quarried virgin sand for the construction of natural turf Fields of Play is not sustainable long-term. We cannot continue to rely on quarried material when recycled alternative materials are available. The potential to use recycled glass sand in place of the virgin material will help to close the circular economy loop and remove the industry's reliance on virgin materials.”

For list of NSC 2022 Winners go to ausleisure.com.au

For more information click here to contact SportEng via their entry in the Australasian Leisure Management Supplier Directory.

Image above: Sporteng Recycled glass sand trial