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Workers have started laying the first rolls of the pitch at the delayed £800m Tottenham Hotspur stadium, where Mace is the construction manager.
The grass surface, prepared in Holland, is a hybrid which is reinforced by polypropylene strands and is similar to the pitch at the club’s former home at White Hart Lane.
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After the club’s ground staff spent the past eight weeks in Holland to ensure the pitch was in optimum condition, it is now being brought to the UK in 23 refrigerated lorries over the course of three days.
Each strip of turf, cut at 2.4m wide and 12m long, weights around 1.5 tonnes.
The move shows that progress is being made on the stadium, which was supposed to host its first Premier League against Liverpool on 15 September, followed by Cardiff City on 6 October.
Those fixtures were moved to Wembley after it emerged that the club was in “urgent meetings” with Mace amid issues with critical safety systems.
A permanent artificial NFL pitch has already been installed in the base of the stadium, which sits underneath the retractable football pitch.
Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino last week said he had been told by chairman Daniel Levy that the stadium would open before Christmas and that he was “very confident” that would happen.
