Surfacing Standards Ltd

Experienced Sports Pitch Design Consultants
We’re on your side. As independent sports pitch consultants, we provide specialist services, expert advice and tailored solutions to deliver the first class artificial surface you expect. We pride ourselves on our flexible and professional approach to all our customers to ensure facilities are delivered in budget and on time.

Surfacing Standards is proud to be one of the industry leaders in the field. 2014 saw us proudly celebrating our 10th birthday – giving you the benefit of ten years of experience and expertise in providing and managing the installation of artificial sports surfaces for our clients. Our head office is based in Corby, Northamptonshire, but we provide our sports surfaces services across the UK.

Our team are experts in their field, and are here to help our clients at every stage of their project.

SSL can deliver projects for a wide range of sports surfaces by guiding our clients through the design and concept of each project so their vision is understood, ensuring their requirements and sports demands are met.

Industry Experts
Surfacing Standards deliver first class 3G artificial sports facilities, with over 10 years experience in the industry. From the feasibility stages through to guiding our clients through the design and concept of each project, we ensure your vision is understood and ensure your requirements and sports demands are met.

To ensure every project delivers to your requirements, we have a comprehensive 4-step process:

• Advice
  Whatever the sport, our expertise goes beyond the surface – we can guide you to the best solution for your requirements. As independent sports pitch design consultants, we provide a range of professional services, expert advice and dedicated leadership to produce first class artificial sports facilities you expect.


• Planning
  When it comes to observing strict planning and compliance requirements, you can be assured SSL offer the expertise and guidance you need. We guide clients through the full development and implementation stages of the sports pitch design. This ultimately achieves best value and enables the facility to be constructed with superior performance, operational convenience and future-proofing.


• Specification
  Our expertise in project managing sports surface installations ensures your facility will meet your requirements now and beyond. Our services for sport are flexible and can help your project in part, or as a fully encompassing role, from the design stage to the completed pitch installation and construction. A structured development path ensures specific objectives are identified, tailored solutions are obtained and all project expectations are satisfied.


• Monitoring
  Our services don’t stop during installation. We will ensure a first class build and help you maintain optimum sports performance. On practical completion we continue to monitor performance over the defects period to ensure all aspects are maintained correctly. Beyond this, we can also provide advice on any maintenance and help you prepare for future refurbishment works. We will review the latest performance standards and suggest possible enhancements and alterations.

We specify the project to ensure every detail is met and then we tender the project to specialist sports pitch contractors enabling each tender return to be judged in an equal manner giving the client the most economical return and price.

When the project is ready to progress on site we continue our project management service to inspect and procure the works to ensure they are built correctly, undertaking key stage inspections to report on progress and ensure successful completion.

Artificial Surfaces

• Football
• Rugby
• Hockey
• Athletics
• Multi-Use Games Area
• Tennis
• Netball

Advantages of Artificial Surfaces
When installing a new sporting facility, there can often be a debate – artifical surfaces vs. natural surfaces. SSL specialises in artificial surfaces, and we wanted to share with you the advantages of going down the ‘artificial’ route for your new surface:

• Flexibility of usage
• Better overall value for money
• Defined performance characteristics
• Greater durability
• More efficient use of space
• Increased usage

Along with the above benefits, artificial surfaces also require less maintenance than natural growing grass would. Artificial pitches are not completely maintenance free (which is sometimes the expectation). For example, an artificial surface pitch can incur the same annual maintenance cost as a natural grass pitch, but an artificial pitch would withstand substantially more usage.