University of
Northern
Iowa
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Football Turf
The UNI football team had been practicing on natural grass fields northwest of the UNI-Dome. The fields were not lit and were served by a very basic irrigation system.
In RDG's design, the natural grass playing surfaces were converted to a state-of-the-art synthetic turf playing surface with sports field lighting, enabling UNI football to practice earlier in the mornings and later in the evenings and maintaining a safer playing surface. The synthetic turf system includes a mix of slit film and monofilament fibers. The infill system consists of cryogenically frozen and hammer milled rubber and silica sand.