How to develop sports and fitness infrastructure for military communities in India
When the Indian Navy commissioned a FIFA-standard football field at INS Hansa Goa, the project brief was specific in ways that civilian sports infrastructure projects rarely are. The surface had to meet FIFA performance standards. The installation had to be executed within a defense establishment with its own access protocols, security requirements, and construction management […]
Government Sports Infrastructure Projects in India: Planning, Construction & Execution
There’s a district sports complex in a central Indian state that was built with government funding, inaugurated by a minister, photographed for the state sports authority’s annual report, and was largely non-functional within eighteen months of completion. The synthetic hockey turf surface had lifted in three sections. The drainage outlets were blocked. The changing room […]