{"id":34825,"date":"2015-09-01T11:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=34825"},"modified":"2015-09-01T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:21:23","slug":"turf-field-project-enters-the-home-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/09\/turf-field-project-enters-the-home-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"Turf field project enters home stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34826\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34826\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34826\" title=\"turf-field-nears-completion\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/turf-field-nears-completion-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Workers this week are glueing in coloured line markers for different sports that will use the new turf field. \" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers this week are glueing in coloured line markers for different sports that will use the new turf field. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just over two weeks away from its official opening, the University&#8217;s new artificial turf sports field is nearing completion.<\/p>\n<p>Workers have laid most of the turf panels and this week are busy installing the coloured field markings for soccer, lacrosse and rugby.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the checklist includes finishing the pads and landscaping for the periphery areas of the field, wiring floodlights in the 70-foot light standards, completing accessible ramps\/walkways to the field and installing netting at each end of the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Besides being a new high-quality venue for varsity teams, the facility will be heavily used by students in Brock&#8217;s popular inter-mural and recreational sport programs. It will also be available for bookings by community groups.<\/p>\n<p>The $1.5-million project is being funded through the Brock University Students&#8217; Union and a donation from an anonymous Brock alumnus.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is on schedule to be completed in time for Homecoming Weekend on Sept. 18-20. The field&#8217;s official opening ceremony will take place Saturday Sept. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Davan Group of Puslinch, Ont. won the contract to build the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over two weeks away from its official opening, the University&#8217;s new artificial turf sports field is nearing completion. Workers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3333,182,133,27,57,3331,3077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34825"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34832,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34825\/revisions\/34832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}