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SPORTS LIGHTING FOR OUTDOOR HOCKEY
Sustainable hockey facilities are fundamental to the development of hockey opportunities for everyone, from the youngest beginner to an international class player. The move to synthetic turf playing fields means there is an increasing desire to use them over an extended period each day and this will often entail the use of artificial sports lighting. However, it is important that the lighting is of an appropriate type and quality.
Split into two parts, the FIH guides to sports lighting describe the different categories of lighting for fields hosting non-televised and televised hockey. The guides provide information for anyone involved in the planning or design of a hockey lighting scheme. They provide the information needed to work through the design, specification and procurement processes to ensure a good result is achieved for players, spectators, media and for the environment.
FIH guidance and quality standards for sports lighting for hockey fields and HOCKEY5s courts can be downloaded here
DIGITAL SCOREBOARDS
Most modern hockey stadiums have large video walls or digital scoreboards that are used to show match data, broadcast highlights and communicate other announcements. This guide describes the requirements of scoreboards installed at venues hosting top level hockey.
FIELD IRRIGATION
Wet hockey turf has become the playing surface of choice for many as it allows the fast, technically skilful game seen at the higher levels of our sport, today. Recognising, that water is precious and becoming increasingly scarce in some parts of the world the FIH wishes to move from hosting elite level hockey competitions exclusively on wet turf and has challenged the synthetic turf industry to develop surfaces that play the way the sport wants without using watering. In the meantime, venues will continue to require new fields with wet turfs, so the FIH has produced this irrigation guidance to define how an irrigation system should perform. It forms part of the FIH Hockey Turf and Field Standards.
