Master the elements with AirPAT™ active rootzone management
AirPAT™ gives you more control over your natural grass. From vacuum drainage to subsurface heating, this daily tool optimizes your playing field and improves overall performance in any climate.
Climate-resistant turf for an extended playing season
AirPAT™ empowers you to work with Mother Nature, not against her. By integrating undersoil warming, cooling, and vacuum-enhanced drainage, you can get more use of your field. AirPAT’s patented soil warming technology helps extend the ideal growing season so play can continue during the shoulder seasons.
The Motz Group custom engineers every system to meet the specific geographic, athletic, and budgetary requirements of your facility.
Features
- Sensors continuously collect data on temperature, volumetric water, O2 percentage
- Specialized software analyzes and displays the data for groundskeeper’s use
- 100% of the field water is captured for recycling
- An underground cistern stores the water for treatment and reuse
- Drainage lines are valved to stop drainage and allow water to be held in the field
- Water can be applied overhead or moved uniformly through capillary action from the base
- The watertight barrier allows the groundskeeper complete control of moisture conditions
- High rootzone infiltration results in optimal drainage rates
- During severe rain events vacuum is applied to the drainage system to accelerate flow
- Vacuum applied to the drainage system pulls fresh air down through the root zone
- Variable speed fans attached to the drainage system push air up through the root zone
- Root zone temperature is modified through the use of geothermally warmed/cooled air
Benefits
Natural grass engineering for peak performance
This is elite technology that’s both rugged and refined. We’ve built these components to survive the harshest working conditions, but we’ve also shrunk the mechanical room footprint by 78%, to give you strength without sacrificing precious stadium real estate.
STOP WAITING FOR THE SUN TO DRY OUT
YOUR FIELD
Our vacuum-enhanced drainage pulls water through the soil profile faster than gravity alone, moving standing water to keep the game on schedule.
EXTEND YOUR PLAYING SEASON
Subsurface warming helps increase soil temperatures during colder months, extending the growing season without the use of costly gas lines and heavy infrastructure.
DESIGNED TO RUN WITH MINIMAL ANNUAL MAINTENANCE
Force-air aeration delivers oxygen directly to the roots for superior durability. Integrated real-time analytics monitor O2, moisture, and temperature 24/7, sending data straight to your mobile device.
Natural grass AirPAT system projects
See why the Pros choose our AirPAT
Our goal with this playing surface was to provide a championship-quality pitch that exceeds MLS standards and best practices for player safety, playability, and aesthetics. The combination of turfgrass technology and products that we’ve compiled here will allow us to do exactly that.
Motz provided full-service support throughout the installation and construction process of the AirPAT system at the CommBank Stadium. Motz’s constant strive and determination to improve the turf industry through collaboration and innovation is what makes them the go-to company to work with and a trusted partner to HG Sports Turf.
The Miller Electric Center will be a first-class facility to support the success of our players and coaches, and The Motz Group is a key contributor to our plans. We felt their AirPAT rootzone management technology will give the turf managers the perfect tools to create safe, playable, and aesthetically pleasing bermudagrass fields year-round.
