The previous athletics track, installed by MONDO in 2002, had come to the end of its life cycle; to replace it, the Sportflex Super X 720 K39 vulcanized rubber prefabricated athletics track was chosen, suited for both training and competitions and certified by World Athletics.
The football pitch inside the athletics track was significantly transformed, from natural grass to artificial turf. Let’s have a look at the details of this advantageous transformation.
The renewed football pitch surface at “La Muntanyeta” is a concrete example of how it is possible to convert a natural grass football pitch into an artificial turf pitch, without compromising the quality of play or the sports performance of the athletes.
At “La Muntanyeta” in Calella, the pitch was converted by replacing the natural grass with a MONDO artificial turf system.
The installed system is Mondoturf X3 ASN is an innovative turf combining the new XNOVA filaments with 4XN mono-filaments and Monofeel filaments featuring a pre-fibrillated straight structure, with performance infill in sand and SBR granules.
The new playing field is the size of an 11-a-side football pitch (99x60m), with pitch markings also for two crosswise 7-a-side pitches (60x40m); its final appeal is unprecedented, not only in functional but also in aesthetic terms. The Mondoturf X3 system blends fibers in three different shades of green, giving the surface a blended appearance due to the intense color effect similar to that of natural grass.
The choice to convert the natural grass football pitch into an artificial turf pitch bears witness to the commitment of the managers of the “La Muntanyeta” sports facility in Calella to embrace a solution that cared for the needs of both the athletes and the environment.
The state of the art in synthetic turf has in fact been shown to be highly competitive when compared to conventional natural grass pitches.
So why are more and more designers and technical managers choosing to install artificial turf in sports centers?
We answer this question with an overview of the advantages offered to the more than 75,000 square feet of artificial turf laid in the new Calella playing field with the Mondoturf X3 system, in addition to another 4,300 square feet in the area next to one of the semi-circles on the athletics track:
The renovation of the “La Muntanyeta” sports facility is an example of how sports area modernization is not only a matter of merely replacing obsolete or worn structures and equipment, but can be an opportunity for redesigning the facility and its components: offering greater efficiency for sports people and athletes, guaranteeing them better game performance.