Bush Turf
Bush Turf Captures Inaugural STMA Innovative Award
In mid-January Bush Turf was honored by the Sports Turf Managers Association with the 2011 STMA Innovative Award for their work in developing a robotic field rover.
Steve Bush, CSFM, said, "The Field Rover is an idea I have had for several years. I wanted a way to rapidly and accurately measure the surface and conditions of sports fields. The robot uses GPS and a series of on-board sensors to both autonomously drive the field and take surface elevation measurements at the same time. We can measure and grade in 3-d with mm accuracy and gather 60,000 measurements on a field in an 8-hour day. This allows us to document all surface irregularities with coordinates' and a photo reference. We can verify if a field is smooth and show any damage caused by events or say concerts. The grade information can then be evaluated, corrected and loaded into our on board grading equipment. This technology will allow us to build the smoothest, truest, safest fields possible. We can use the crated files then to grade the field precisely year after year. We want to bring technology to turf. We have the sod father; we want to be the Edison of turf. It is a true honor to receive the Innovation Award in its inaugural year. The rover was designed to fold into its shell and be transported easily on an airplane. We are going to provide this precision measuring and grading as a service."
Read more about this service in our Field Rover brochure and contact Bush Turf to ask any questions you might have.
Sports Field Construction, Sports Field Renovation, Sports Field Design
Bush Turf is an innovator and leader in the athletic field construction industry. We have worked with the Los Angeles Dodgers as well as Big Ten and Big XII universities, and PGA golf courses. Bush Turf has been featured in many trade magazines and we are always contributing articles on hot topics such as drainage, cost-effective fields, and irrigating synthetic surfaces.
We are a full-service athletic field construction company that specializes in turn-key design, construction, and renovation. Bush Turf specializes in native soil, sand-based, and sand-capped fields. We have built a number of artificial turf fields as well.
Bush Turf is one of the only sports field contractors in the country that use state-of-the-art GPS-guided equipment to build fields to exact elevations specified. This equipment allows for accurate as-built drawings along with the ability to restore a field to its original design if it has been damaged or needs to be renovated.
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 Sports Field Construction and Renovation |  Turfgrid Installation |
 Sprigging |
 Synthetic Turf Installation and Preparation |