SYNLawn San Diego Honored at the Sixth Annual Synthetic Turf Council Awards
San Diego, Calif., (October 25, 2023) — SYNLawn San Diego is proud to announce it was selected as a winner of one of the 2023 Synthetic Turf Council (STC) Awards. The honorees were revealed during an awards ceremony at the STC’s annual conference and 20th anniversary celebration in New Orleans. The STC Awards is a program designed to recognize members who help to promote the association’s values and advance the synthetic turf industry. SYNLawn San Diego received the Recreational Landscape Project of the Year award in recognition of their design and installation work on a custom play space in Olympus Park in Encinitas.
“We are thrilled to be recognized by the STC for our involvement in this important initiative that connects the local community with a new recreational space,” said Jamie Neagle, general manager of SYNLawn San Diego. “Synthetic turf has proven to be a great playground surface since it can be used to create a variety of elevations and slopes like the popular slide feature at Olympus Park.”
Olympus Park is a 3.1-acre community recreational space that features a wide range of amenities such as a botanical garden designed in collaboration with the San Diego Botanic Garden, walking trails, a zipline, an exercise pad that allows visitors to practice yoga and other fitness classes, a small dog park, a bike pump track, public art elements and the play area that SYNLawn San Diego built. For this award-winning project, SYNLawn San Diego collaborated with the City of Encinitas, California and RRM Design Group. The playground and adjacent landscaping areas were created using 2,000 square feet of SYNLawn’s Play Platinum. As part of the design, SYNLawn San Diego had to factor in the slopes and undulations of the installation, including the adventure hill, so they used a pour-in-place safety course that allowed them to glue the turf to the cushion course directly. The Play Platinum they installed is the safest artificial grass surface for kids and it’s made with Super Yarn™ technology that provides heat reflective, anti-static, Sanitized®, and non-abrasive grass blades. It also has a Class A fire rating to ensure the surfacing meets all standards for playground use. More information about the recreational project is available here.
SYNLawn San Diego also celebrated one of their fellow distributor teams, New England Turf Store/SYNLawn New England, winning the Commercial Landscape Project of the Year award.
“We’re extremely proud of our hardworking distributors and their teams for winning these prestigious awards from the STC,” said George Neagle, president of SYNLawn. “These notable achievements reflect both teams’ design and installation expertise, creativity, unmatched dedication to their clients and their stellar skills.”
Photos of the award-winning installation are available upon request. Learn more about SYNLawn San Diego and its top-quality design and installation services at www.synlawnsandiego.com. For more information about the STC awards program, visit www.syntheticturfcouncil.org/awards.
ABOUT SYNLawn
SYNLawn® is celebrating twenty years of leading the industry as the largest manufacturer and unrivaled innovator of artificial grass and synthetic surfacing in North America. As part of the Sport Group Holding® family of companies, SYNLawn, along with sister surfacing brands - AstroTurf®, Rekortan®, APT® and Laykold® - delivers the best products available on the market. SYNLawn's product offerings also include Calico Greens™, an upscale line of artificial wall displays. SYNLawn's turnkey network of over 120 distributors seamlessly combines environmental stewardship with industry-leading innovations. SYNLawn uses bio-based ingredients, such as soy and sugarcane, and consumer-conscious additives, such as antimicrobials, to meet customers' wide range of needs. With more than 300,000 residential and commercial installations, the company is raising the bar for global synthetic turf standards and transforming the idea of grass. We have a proprietary system with a large percentage of renewable content. From rooftops to road medians and rocket-launch viewing sites, SYNLawn has installed over 150 million square feet of U.S. soy-backed grass across 300,000 installations in the United States of America and over 20 other countries since 2008. SYNLawn added more soy than ever to its products in 2021, which increased its use of U.S. soy by 10%. For more information visit www.SYNLawn.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and YouTube.
About the Synthetic Turf Council (STC)
The Synthetic Turf Council (STC) is a 501(c)6 non-profit trade association serving the synthetic turf industry. Its mission is to lead, educate and advocate for the synthetic turf industry. Founded in 2003, the STC assists buyers and end users with the selection, use and maintenance of synthetic turf systems in sports field, golf, municipal parks, airports, landscape and residential applications. It is a resource for current, credible, and independent research on the safety and environmental impact of synthetic turf, as well as technical guidance on the selection, installation, maintenance, and environmentally responsible disposal of synthetic turf. Membership includes builders, landscape architects, testing labs, maintenance providers, manufacturers, suppliers, installation contractors, infill material suppliers and other specialty service companies.
