Planning & Approval

Court Craft can assist with all aspects of planning for you facility. This includes surveys, engineers plans, landscape plans, hydraulic calculations, right through to council application and approval.

Survey

Council will provide a full survey of the site before processing your development application. This survey should include all trees, buildings, significant features, contours (levels) etc.

Court Craft can arrange for this survey to be completed if you do not already have one available.

Safety & Environment

Environmental controls are an essential part of today's construction industry.

These systems are designed to both keep the community safe and to protect the environment from construction pollution from leaving the site.

Court Craft take great care to ensure that all of these factors are taken care of during site establishment. This includes safety or barrier fencing, silt controls such as hay bales or complete silt fences.

Earthworks & Geotechnical

Earthworks is possibly the most vital component in the construction of any new facility and it is crucial that a professional and experienced contract who is familiar with the specific requirements of sports facility construction is used to undertake the work.

The proposed site should be cleared of all obstructions. It is then stripped of any deleterious or organic material, topsoil and roots beneath the proposed court.

Any inappropriate material below the design levels should also be removed and replaced with imported materials such as crushed sandstone, road base or other suitable products that will allow high levels of compaction.

The base should then be rolled with a heavy roller and compacted to ensure future subsidence can be avoided. It is possible on some sites that geotechnical testing will be required to ensure adequate compaction.

Court Craft also hire on an hourly basis our excavators and bobcats complete with a driver. Please contact us for more information.

Drainage

There are two important drainage aspects to consider in the construction of a sports court. These aspects are the control of sub-surface water, and the control of storm water.

Sub-surface water is moisture below the sports court, and left untreated has the potential to penetrate the court base and cause the court to fail. It is essential that any sub-surface moisture is dealt with during construction otherwise there is a high probability that there will be expensive repair work required at a later date.
Sub-surface drainage can be as simple as the installation of ag-lines along the areas of the court where the surrounds are higher than the court surface, but Court Craft can assist in determining the needs foe each specific site.

Stormwater is moisture that travels over the court surface, typically from rain or from the collection of water from surrounding areas. This water is normally collected by drains around the court, and then funneled to a large pit drain before being dissipated in the stormwater disposal system. To allow this water to run off the court, all courts are built with a fall of 1%, normally diagonally across the court to encourage the water to run downhill to the collection drains.

Councils may have specific requirements for the hydraulics of your court, and plans for stormwater detention and disposal need to be carefully designed to account for these requirements.

Retaining Walls

Because of the common "cut and fill" nature of tennis court construction, Court Craft is frequently required to build retaining walls to provide a level area for our finished product.

Court Craft has over the years build a vast range of retaining walls from concrete filled cement brick through to tilt up concrete walls, interlocking brick and even on occasion dimension stone or sandstone covered walls.

Court Craft also has experience in installing structural concrete bases such as suspended reinforced concrete slabs, and piered concrete bases.

Pictures of retaining walls built by Court Craft

Fencing & Lighting

Court Craft can provide a number of different fencing designs starting from a basic galvanised chain mesh fence and ranging through PVC coated systems through to retractable fabric nets.

All fences are supplied with a single gate as standard however double gates are available on request. Top and bottom fence rails are also popular, and add not only to the aesthetics of the fence but also provide additional stability and rigidity to the structure.

Fences are generally installed at a standard 3.6 m height, but can also be raked down in the centre or have a chamfered corner design rather than a straight rectangular finish. Retractable nets are popular when courts are built in front of open spaces, and these nets can be simply drawn aside when not in use to provide unencumbered views.

Depending on council requirements, many sports facilities can be lit to allow night time use. This includes large scale fields such as soccer, hockey or rugby fields right through to tennis and netball courts.

Court Craft is highly experienced in the installation of sports lighting, and can offer both flood light designs, and environmental light spill controlled systems. Environmental light spill control systems are becoming a standard requirement for many courts in residential areas, as their design limits the amounts of light beamed out of the confines of the courts, and into neighbours properties.

Many councils stipulate that these designs are required for any facility in residential areas, an other systems which are harder to control are banned. Court Craft can advise which systems are the most appropriate for your facility, and price on your requirements.