Month: October 2023

In the world of sports, the pursuit of excellence knows no bounds. Athletes push their physical limits, coaches strategize meticulously, and facilities strive to create the optimal environment for peak performance. Among the critical factors often overlooked is proper water management. Enter ACO Sport® Drainage – an innovative solution that revolutionizes the playing field by ensuring effective water control, reducing hazards, and enhancing athletic performance. In this blog, we will explore the benefits of ACO Sport® Drainage and how it positively impacts sports facilities worldwide.

 

1. Superior Water Management: ACO Sport® Drainage systems are designed to efficiently manage water, preventing the accumulation of surface water that can lead to hazardous conditions. With advanced channeling technology, ACO Sport® Drainage swiftly collects and redirects excess water away from the playing surface, minimizing the risk of slips, puddles, and unstable footing. This superior water management not only enhances safety but also provides athletes with a consistent and reliable playing surface.
2. Enhanced Performance: Adequate water management is key to maintaining the integrity of sports fields, tracks, and courts. ACO Sport® Drainage ensures optimal surface conditions, allowing athletes to perform at their best. By preventing waterlogging and controlling moisture levels, these drainage systems create an even playing field that minimizes disruptions and maximizes athletic potential. With ACO Sport® Drainage, athletes can focus on their skills and strategy, without worrying about the adverse effects of water on their performance.
3. Increased Longevity of Sports Facilities: Sports facilities are significant investments, and protecting that investment is crucial. ACO Sport® Drainage systems play a vital role in preserving the integrity and longevity of sports fields and surfaces. By effectively managing water, these systems prevent soil erosion, subsoil saturation, and the formation of potholes or cracks. By minimizing the impact of water-related damage, ACO Sport® Drainage ensures that sports facilities maintain their quality and functionality over time, reducing the need for costly repairs or replacements.
4. Solutions for Every Sport: ACO understands that each sport has unique requirements when it comes to drainage. With a comprehensive range of products, ACO Sport® Drainage offers customized solutions tailored to the specific needs of various sports. From soccer fields to tennis courts, running tracks to baseball diamonds, ACO Sport® Drainage systems can be adapted to the dimensions, and water flow characteristics of each playing surface. This versatility ensures that athletes can compete on safe and reliable grounds, optimized for their sport.
5. Environmental Responsibility: ACO Sport® Drainage is committed to sustainable practices, and aligning with the increasing global focus on environmental responsibilities. By promoting efficient water management, ACO Sport® Drainage contributes to water conservation efforts, minimizing wastage and preserving this valuable resource.

In the realm of sports, every advantage matters. ACO Sport® Drainage provides a crucial advantage by delivering effective water management solutions that enhance safety, improve performance, extend the lifespan of sports facilities, and contribute to environmental sustainability. With its commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction, ACO Sport® Drainage continues to revolutionize the sporting landscape, creating conditions where athletes can thrive and achieve their full potential. Whether it’s a local field or an international stadium, ACO Sport® Drainage is the game-changer that keeps sports in motion.

Water is a precious resource. It sustains life. It nourishes our planet, but civil and industrial mismanagement of Mother Nature’s rainwater causes problems, including billions of dollars in environmental and human and damages.

A 2013 Environmental Protection Agency report cites improperly managed stormwater as a leading contributor to underground water pollution affecting streams, lakes, rivers and drinking water.

The single costliest mistake that businesses can make when planning for stormwater intrusion is specifying the wrong system for the wrong application. In the long run, this can cause big issues for your system in terms of water discharge, percolation, and structural loading and performance of the system. Ultimately, this could cost a business owner million and millions of dollars to replace in the long run. So, it’s better to specify the correct system upfront.

As natural areas get replaced by roads, parking lots, commercial infrastructures, and other impervious surfaces, nature’s ability to properly absorb rainwater and snow melt into underground subsurface areas can be significantly compromised.

Solving stormwater damage head on mitigating and managing localized flooding on sidewalks, in parking lots and surrounding terrain is a tough battle. One modular water storage product is winning, leaving the competition literally upstream across the US and globally.

The main principles of ACO are our system chain, which is collect, clean, hold and reuse. The collect focuses on collecting all that stormwater that’s coming off the streets or surfaces, then the cleaning of the water, and finally StormBrixx® is used for is the hold and release processes. So, it’s detaining all the water and then releasing it back into the natural water course at a controlled rate!

StormBrixx® was designed with speed of installation in mind with a Legolite concept. Units snap together in seconds! We also use a brick bonding pattern that overlap the joints that result in unparalleled vertical and lateral loading stability. All in all, on site this could save the contractor a significant amount compared to the competition.

What we’ve been able to do at ACO is marry up the German engineering and technology aspect of the products that we develop and take those proprietary applications, bring them here to the US. and enable our manufacturing and our processes here to maximize the utilization and efficiencies that we can bring to the table. That has allowed us to make an exceptional product that we can deliver to the marketplace.

Today, with regional offices in Ohio, South Carolina, and a state-of-the-art North American headquarters in Arizona, ACO USA reaches coast to coast, providing crucial stormwater management and end to end solutions for thousands of businesses, cities, and towns in all 50 states.

It’s a crucial part of any kind of commercial or residential installation to take care of and manage that stormwater.

This system can be laid out in right angle shapes, giving the engineer the ultimate ability to fit a lot of cubic foot of storage in a small space.

StormBrixx® help solve the missing components of competitors products in four main aspects; structural integrity, speed of installation, access, maintenance and cleaning, and lastly is logistics and handling.

We have developed an inherent supply chain platform that meets the US market needs. This supply chain is designed to meet the demands of our customers both on the eastern and western half of the US. Once our product is here in the distribution center, it has been fully tested, our approved and ready for shipment. This destructive test certifies both vertical and horizontal demands that will be put on the StormBrixx® system itself.