King Edward VI Academy enhances facilities

The King Edward VI Multi Academy Trust has undertaken a major redevelopment of its sports facilities. The school has a number of outdoor pitches–both grass and tarmac – and decided that the existing tarmac surface located next to the indoor facilities needed to be replaced.

The Trust wanted to take the opportunity to install a new surface that met the needs of the school and could be used for multiple sports.

SAPCA member, Blakedown Sport & Play, worked with the school to select a surface that offered the best combination of shock absorption, slip resistance, impact attenuation and rotation resistance and Playrite’s Matchplay 2 artificial grass was the preferred choice due to being a multi-use surface specifically designed to be used for multiple sports.