[Greenbuilding] tennis court surface material

[Rob Tom]

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:56:38 -0400, John Salmen <terrain at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Looking for some greener references for creating a tennis court surface  
> (no grass)

John;

It's been eons since I've played tennis but one that naturally comes to  
mind is red clay.

In fact I'm pretty sure I've seen an outdoor clay court here in Ottawa but  
I'll be danged if I can recall where. Perhaps your parents would know ?   
(ie If it can survive Ottawa's climate, it should be able to survive in  
the BC Banana Belt ?)

An off-hand thought...

Recently the concession road near my home was repaved.
There was a gizmo that came along and ripped up the old asphalt, ground it  
up and spit it out the other end where it was spread, rolled out and  
levelled, all in one pass and then followed up by a (separate) compactor  
(aka "steam roller" but with no steam).

That in itself may not be news but the last time I saw something like  
this, the ripping-up process involved flaming jets of burning gas,  
presumably to soften-up the asphalt first.
On this occasion, there was no flame.

I'm guessing that somewhere in most urban areas, there are huge piles of  
old asphalt paving, currently sitting around doing nothing other than  
being an environmental PITA. Recycling them into a new tennis court using  
the above flame-free, munch/crunch process wouldn't seem to be the worst  
thing that one could do.




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