Who builds sports facilities for NSW schools?

For the NSW Department of Education, Monument Environments has built cricket pitches, sports courts, artificial turf fields and a long jump at schools across Sydney. It works as principal contractor and has delivered directly for the Department since 2016.

Much of Monument's school work is delivered in live, occupied environments. On a sports project, that is the hard part, since a school's courts and fields are in use every day of term and the work has to fit around them.

Cricket

At Eagle Vale High School, Monument built a four-lane training cricket pitch to Cricket Australia guidelines, the first sports project for the new sports high school. A training facility like this can include multiple lanes, retractable lane netting, a full-size roof net and extra-wide lanes.

At Carlingford Public School, Monument built a cricket pitch and a long jump facility. How these are built is covered in how a cricket training facility is built and how a long jump facility is built.

Courts

Monument carried out sports court upgrades at Ashbury Public School and built a new basketball court at St Clair Public School. At Coogee Public School, it delivered an amphitheatre and sports court, a large concrete structure built with high precision and designed to last.

A multi-use court typically replaces the old surface with a new concrete base, acrylic surfacing, line marking and fixed sports equipment, designed for several sports. Larger multi-use courts also take in civil, hydraulic and landscaping works, as set out in how a multi-use sports court is built.

Turf fields

At Currans Hill Public School, Monument installed a new artificial turf soccer field, and at Rosehill Public School an artificial turf field. Synthetic turf replaces a worn surface with an engineered base and synthetic grass. The school gets an all-weather field that students can play on all year round.

Installation is covered in how an artificial turf field is installed.

The school day

Sports areas are used at recess, at lunch and for PE. Taking one out of use affects the whole school, so Monument fences the work area, keeps plant and deliveries on separate access, and has a supervisor watching every machine that moves near students.

Larger works are timed for the school holidays, so the school gets the facility back for the new term.

Engagement

Monument is prequalified under NSW Government Scheme SCM 0256 (up to $1M) and NSW Government Scheme SCM 1461 ($1M to $9M), and certified to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. Schools and the Department can engage it through those schemes, through the panels it is admitted to, or directly.

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