Performance Testing &  Benchmarking

NZSTI provides performance testing to both natural turf and synthetic sport surfaces.

Our team of technicians and agronomists are well trained, experienced and equipped with the best instruments and technology in the world. 

For over 70 years we have worked within the turf industry and played a role in setting world standards for performance and safety of turf surfaces for a range of sports.  
We work closely with the Labosport technical team to bring state-of-the-art technology and innovation to the Pacific. 

Through performance testing and benchmarking, NZSTI agronomists will objectively evaluate the playing surface quality of natural and synthetic turf surfaces. NZSTI provides performance testing of synthetic services to several world sporting associations. NZSTI is one of only two laboratories in the world accredited to World Bowls for surface performance testing. 

Turf performance testing include sportsfield quality and safety assessments. Such testing allows clients to objectively evaluate the current standard of facilities, define and monitor levels of service from maintenance contractors, benchmark quality over time and establish priorities for maintenance expenditure. In combination with turf maintenance consultancy this provides a mechanism to identify limiting factors to facility performance, inform maintenance strategies and evaluate the effectiveness of investment in playing surfaces. Sportsfield quality assessment is most effective when repeated at regular intervals (ideally six-monthly). Sportsfield quality standards can be used both to objectively define appropriate levels of service from contractors and to independently monitor performance against those standards.