New York Red Bulls Go Radiant

New York Red Bulls Soccer Club

East Hanover, NJ

Build a year-round, weather-proof, real turf training and practice facility that will sustain growth even in the winter months.

Natural turf takes a beating, especially in winter, so Red Bull managers needed a system to protect a lot of turf.

Root-zone warming with 135,300 lineal feet of Watts non-oxygen barrier PEX and buried custom HDPE manifolds.

Players were able to use the field only weeks after the field installations.

Red Bull is branded as the drink that fuels human ambition, stirs physical exuberance, and emboldens the spirit. And when the corporation behind the brand puts their effort into new enterprise, there's grit n' gusto in it.

That's why when the New York Red Bulls began construction of a new training and practice facility for their professional soccer team, they opted for a root zone warming system for one of the big playing fields in East Hanover, NJ.

One of the turf fields will go dormant during the winter months while the other will stay green through the influence of a warm glycol solution circulated in tubing embedded about half a foot below.

The turf-warming system for the field was sized for nine million BTUs. The use of radiant heat within the root zone helps keep the grass healthy and active during the winter season.

A total of 135,300 lineal feet of ¾" Watts RadiantPEX tubing was installed on the project in multiple zones. Custom six-inch Watts HDPE manifolds are buried under the turf to help evenly distribute heat through the radiant tubing.