Equestrian services offered

• Site survey: GPS and total station survey
• 3D CAD  Digital Terrain Modelling
• Planning applications
• Design of gallops and manèges (aka ménages)  
• Irrigation & drainage for racetracks, gallops, arenas, paddocks and manèges (aka ménages)  
• Technical specification and bill of quantities
• Tender administration  and procurement
• Construction supervision of contractor
• Construction management for self-build

Drainage for manèges (aka ménages)

    

A common complaint of equestrian facilities such as manèges is that they suffer from poor drainage and that proper drainage costs a great deal of money. Indeed conventional “profile” drainage systems are expensive. Using our experience of drainage materials and techniques in a range of other industries and markets, we have devised some alternative and more economical drainage systems specifically for manèges. The following table summarises the different characteristics of each type of system.

Drainage for gallops and race tracks

Irriplan offers a range of design solutions for drainage of natural turf.  Our approach is to engineer a drainage scheme to meet the specific performance requirements of the client, rather merely designing generic drainage schemes.   Irriplan will look at a range of drainage solutions to suit your particular requirements, including;

• Primary land drainage
• Secondary drainage; sand-banding/slitting  and gravel-banding/slitting
• Micro-drainage
• Surface drainage

Drainage using recycled materials

Quite often environment- friendly recycled aggregate costs more than conventional aggregates, but in some instances the additional cost is justified in greater performance. This is the case with sintered pulverised fuel-ash (pfa), a 100% recycled product.  Irriplan specifies this for its GroovyDrain  system for manèges and for secondary drainage (slitting/banding) for natural turf.  We also design drainage schemes with recycled-glass sand and  fin-drains manufactured from recycled plastic.