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Synthetic Grass Whitepapers
Innovation at ForeverLawn® is driven by research, testing, and real-world performance. Our whitepapers give you all the product details and specifications you need for confident decision-making.
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The Evolution of Play Spaces is Changing
A great deal more is known today about the benefits of play to children’s development. And it’s not just academia that are aware of these benefits. With the recent pandemic stay at home orders and social distancing requirements, parents and families are experiencing first-hand the negative impacts that lack of outdoor play has on their children’s mental and physical wellbeing. This awareness is driving change in play needs across the globe and forcing evolution in play spaces and community development.
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Playground Safety & Static Electricity—What’s Safe and What Isn’t?
Static electricity has always been a problem on playgrounds. Think back to when you played on the playground as a kid. Remember those dreaded shocks after getting off the slide? For most children, shocks from static electricity on the playground aren’t painful, just uncomfortable. But for children with special medical devices such as cochlear implants, static shocks can become a painful and expensive problem.
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Addressing Thermal Risks of Playground Surfacing Solutions
Many factors impact the safety and playability of play spaces, including thermal heat risks. Direct sunlight and high temperatures can present significant risks by heating playground surfaces and equipment to dangerous levels. Synthetic turf offers numerous advantages and minimal disadvantages in mitigating thermal safety risks and acts as a financial, functional, and regulatory superlative to traditional play surfacing solutions.
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Playground Surfaces: What Works (and Plays) Today
This paper looks at the evolution of playground surfaces and offers city and school planners and playground architects guidance on what to look for when choosing the right surface for a new playground – or when the time comes to upgrade existing playground surfaces.
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Why PlaygroundGrass?
While safety is paramount in today’s playgrounds, designers understand that safety must be integrated seamlessly without limiting play or squashing creativity. Safer play structures are a major contributor to today’s playground designs, but the safety surfaces underneath those structures are just as, or maybe even more, important. In fact, many playground designers are evolving the way they approach projects by using synthetic turf as a play element itself to create safer, cleaner, and more comfortable play environments.
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Synthetic Turf vs. Natural Turf for Athletic Fields
Since the invention of synthetic turf in the 1960s, there has been an ongoing discourse on natural grass vs. artificial surfacing in athletics. While the discussion has evolved over time, the purpose of this paper is to highlight and explain how synthetic turf alleviates many of the issues plaguing natural fields and in many cases improves upon the performance, safety, and usability aspects of grass sports surfaces.
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Product-Based Systems vs Infill-Based Systems
The benefits of synthetic turf against natural grass fields are widely recognized, as are the challenges associated with standard high infill turf systems (called infill-based systems). The purpose of this paper is to examine how product-based systems use modern technology to offer improvements in safety, performance, playing experience, and lifespan when compared against infill-based systems.
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