St Mary's High School, Hertfordshire

The scope of work included for the construction of 4 no natural turf pitches, cricket square and MUGA. MJ Abbott secured the contract following a successful tender submission to Shepherd Construction.

MJ Abbott carried out the following scope of works:

Natural Turf

• Removal of vegetation from 5 hectares of existing topsoil
• Strip clean topsoil to full depth, pass through screener to remove foreign matter and stockpile in a weather protected heap outside of construction areas
• Cut and fill 33,000m³ of subsoil using laser controlled dozer and excavators to create level plateau areas
• Primary drainage installation with laterals at 7 metres centres, secondary drainage in the form of forced sand slitting at 1 metre centres to the entire plateau
• Subsoil de-compaction, topsoil re-spread, cultivations and seeding
• Installation of cricket square
• Carry out first year's maintenance regime including grass cutting, spraying and overseeding.

Synthetic Facilities

• Construction of MUGA comprising tennis/netball courts.

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