National sports turf guidance for immediate and long term facility survival

针对近期和长期设施生存的国家运动草坪指南

• 批准号: 61711
• 金额: $ 9.08万
• 依托单位: STRI LTD.
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=61711
• 关键词: National; sports; turf; guidance; immediate

STRI is offering fully funded access to business support for all sectors of sportsturf, parks and recreation businesses who are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. STRI is a global leader in sustainable sportsturf management, research, operation, planning/design, and a solutions provider for the industry.The COVID-19 pandemic presents a clear and present risk to the management of sports clubs, particularly for venues managing natural sportsturf surfaces such as football, golf courses, rugby, cricket and bowls. These sports provide an important role in society, especially at a 'grass roots' level of sports and recreation and local authority green space provision. The health and mental wellbeing in addition to the environmental and ecological benefit of managed green space is huge, with a predicted value of over £34 billion in health and wellbeing benefits as well as direct savings of at least £111 million to the NHS from prevented GP visits.This opportunity, funded by Innovation UK, offers successful applicants access to a 'best practice' roadmap for getting sports facilities back to business and how best to deal with necessary changes where maintenance and budget resources need urgent review due to lost income and the unplanned disruption. It will also deal with the practicalities of reopening facilities safely in the medium term and help with innovative future business models to ensure long term survival.Applicants will be able to build their own interactive report using STRI's unique TurfSync platform and schedule remote consultation from a team of STRI Group consultants who will review current practices and offer impartial advice bespoke to each situation for the short and long term health of facilities.In addition to our review of sportsturf, ecological,environmental and business management in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, applicants will be able to seek assistance with investigatory searches for additional funding.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PROJECT EXTENSIONIt is proposed to continue Project Pathfinder but focus solely on providing advice in relation to the feasibility of water sustainability and security within UK sports facilities, to improve long term financial stability and deliver wider environmental benefits to the club and adjacent communitiesDuring the delivery of Project Pathfinder, STRI received a number of enquiries regarding water security and ultimately ended up delivering seven separate bespoke facility water related ‘roadmaps’. The majority of these roadmaps resulted in further ‘offers of service’ (business proposals) sent to the clients for more detailed design work on water harvesting and storage options. STRI had not expected such a high level of interest in this subject as a result of COVID-19. However, it became apparent that the crisis had forced sports facilities to revaluate their whole business models in order to retain a viable business. Water plays a huge role for sports facilities and is required by all facilities in order to remain viable. Water is often sourced from mains supply which can be expensive, as well as carrying the risk of temporary hose pipe bans, or long-term disconnection. Other facilities source their water from on-site boreholes. These carry the risk of the Environment Agency reducing or removing abstraction licenses. This has occurred at much greater rate in recent years. Therefore, facilities are increasingly looking for ways to safeguard their water supply and thus their long-term business. The updated deliverables of the project are to offer a dedicated service which will look at the evaluating the long-term water security of sports facilities. This includes water supply, water sources, sustainable drainage, linking water source solutions to ecological benefits and sustainable solutions for surrounding areas i.e. receiving problematic drainage water from neighbouring land.

STRI为英国受COVID-19疫情影响的所有体育、公园和娱乐行业提供全额资助的业务支持。STRI是全球领先的可持续体育场地管理、研究、运营、规划/设计和行业解决方案提供商。COVID-19大流行给体育俱乐部的管理带来了明显和现实的风险，特别是管理足球、高尔夫球场、橄榄球、板球和保龄球等天然体育场地的场地。这些体育运动在社会中发挥着重要作用，特别是在“基层”的体育和娱乐以及地方当局提供的绿色空间方面。除了管理绿色空间的环境和生态效益外，健康和心理健康也是巨大的，预计健康和健康效益价值超过340亿英镑，并且通过防止全科医生访问，为NHS直接节省至少1.11亿英镑。为成功的申请人提供了一个“最佳实践”路线图，以使体育设施恢复运营，以及如何最好地处理必要的变化，其中维护和预算资源需要紧急审查，由于收入损失，意外的破坏。它还将处理在中期内安全重新开放设施的可行性，并帮助创新未来的商业模式，以确保长期生存。申请人将能够使用STRI独特的TurfSync平台构建自己的交互式报告，并安排STRI集团顾问团队的远程咨询，他们将审查当前的做法，并针对各种情况提供短期和长期的公正建议设施的健康状况。除了在COVID-19疫情后对体育、生态、环境和业务管理进行检讨外，申请人将能够寻求帮助，以澄清搜索额外的资金。项目扩展的其他信息建议继续项目探路者，但只专注于提供有关英国体育领域水资源可持续性和安全性的可行性建议设施，以提高长期的财务稳定性，并提供更广泛的环境效益，以俱乐部和邻近社区在交付项目探路者，STRI收到了一些关于水安全的查询，并最终提供了七个单独的定制设施水相关的“路线图”。这些路线图中的大多数导致进一步的“服务要约”（商业建议）发送给客户，以更详细的设计工作的水收集和储存的选择。STRI没有预料到COVID-19会引起如此高的关注。然而，很明显，危机迫使体育设施重新评估其整个商业模式，以保持一个可行的业务。水对体育设施起着巨大的作用，所有设施都需要水才能保持活力。水通常来自主供水，这可能是昂贵的，以及携带临时软管禁令或长期断开的风险。其他设施的水源来自现场的钻孔。这些都带有环境署减少或取消抽象许可证的风险。近年来，这种情况的发生率要高得多。因此，各设施越来越多地寻找保障其供水的方法，从而保障其长期业务。该项目的最新成果是提供专门的服务，评估体育设施的长期水安全。这包括供水、水源、可持续排水、将水源解决方案与生态效益和周边地区的可持续解决方案联系起来，即从邻近土地接收有问题的排水。