Alpine Services, Inc.

Alpine's consultants address:

• Athletic Field/Drainage issues
• Organization Management
• Project Management
• Design Analysis/Value Engineering
• Expert witness
• Forensic Analysis
• Difficult and unusual problems

Alpine Services is uniquely qualified to solve the most perplexing athletic field problems.  We offer common-sense advice on all aspects of athletic field construction and improvement.  We evaluate sites and give recommendations, review plans, and select and oversee contractors. In the past, we have hired staff for clients’ projects, monitored purchases and deliveries, and verified job performance and completion.  We often provide advice on various methods, value-engineer projects and address problematic athletic field elements. These consulting services are available to you as needs arise.  Engaging Alpine Services for sports facility construction will help you meet your fiduciary responsibility for quality control  – Alpine’s independent consultant will verify reports made by your architects, engineers and contractors.

Alpine brings new and original ways of thinking to athletic field consulting

Grove Teates was the first in the industry to employ laser-guided grading. Alpine is a recognized innovator in the athletic field industry and has earned a reputation for producing high-quality athletic fields, both natural and artificial. Alpine’s first field was the minor baseball league field the Bowie Baysox now call home. Beginning with that first foray into athletic field construction, Alpine began to develop specialized methods and equipment for the sports field industry, and has since built or renovated over 125 professional, college, high school and municipal fields of all types.

Consultant

Today, Grove Teates serves as an athletic field consultant specializing in site challenges, athletic field design, field forensics, and quality issues.  His expertise ranges from design and contractor oversight to performing evaluations, suggesting construction methods and value engineering. He also provides expert testimony in litigious issues.  Grove Teates has experience in every aspect of athletic field construction, from budgeting to forensic analysis and determining why some element of a natural or artificial field failed. This experience extends from writing specifications to serving as a project manager to certifying compliance via job inspections. There is no way to substitute for the level of expertise that Grove accrued over the past 20+ years.  His industry knowledge may win a job, save considerable money and time, improve the final outcome of a project or enable justice in areas of contention.

Evaluator

Site and field design are examined for accessibility, construction personnel and player safety, and relationships with other events and structures, etc. Field construction plans and drawings are examined for completeness, workability, value, construction feasibility, budget compliance and other details which can cause a project to be excessively expensive, overrun a target completion date, or not function properly once it’s built. It is less expensive to implement quality control and cure issues before construction begins than in the middle of a project.

Field Advisor

Potential sites should be evaluated before engineering begins and the project should be visited frequently during construction. Frequent interaction with architects and contractors keeps a project on track and ensures that the contractor meets specifications that are important to how well the field functions and which foster player and fan safety, etc.  Athletic field construction experience is most valuable during the examination and evaluation phases.  An experienced athletic field advisor will give directives necessary to ensure high-quality results.