WHANGA TURF RENEWAL AND LIGHTING UPGRADE 2025

We are excited to confirm that due to the support of Tauranga City Council and TECT and our members financial contribution over the past few years we have been able to push go on the renewal of the carpet on Whanga Turf and upgrade the current lighting to LED's early in 2025.

Exciting!

Polytan have been successful in being appointed to remove and install a new thicker shockpad, and a new wet/dry turf that requires less watering - as seen at the Paris Olympics in 2024!

Inline channels will also be installed to assist with the waterflow to reduce the flooding on this turf. 

Lumosa LED lights were installed on the Moana Turf and they will also be used on the Whanga turf. We are fortunate to have these installed by Joel and his crew at Link Electrical.

This page will contain photos and updates as we proceed through this project. 

LED LIGHTS 

Are all installed and ready for the season. 

A big thank you to Joel and the team at Link Electrical for installing the new lights and being patient as we worked through replacing some old electrcial cables as well.

Not to mention going the extra mile and repainting some of the light poles and replacing the lights on the Tahatai turf that were not working as well. 

THANK YOU 

CARPET REPLACEMENT

The inline channels are now fully installed and the lifting of the old carpet is now finished. 

As we want to be as environmentally friendly as we can with this project we have gone out to the community to repurpose the carpet and many schools, preschools, youth groups, other sporting codes, and families have responded to take rolls away. This is a fantastic result and we will share these stories at a later date. 

Cody and the team at Polytan and their subcontractors have been amazing and really working hard to get this project all complete befor ethe start of the season. 

In the meantime starting the 10th Match the old shockpad will be lifted, and new paving being put down. Once complete the carpet is then installed. 

Lets hope fine weather continues. 

Awesome work team !