The $1.26 million upgrade of the two hockey turfs at the Tauranga Hockey Centre at Blake Park is nearing completion on time and on budget.
Tauranga Hockey Association general manager Clyde du Toit says the project has gone well and the long hot summer has helped greatly.
"We are getting really close to finishing the Beach Turf, which is our old water turf. We are in the final process of putting down the blue carpet and that should be down by the end of this weekend," said du Toit.
"So we can start playing on it from next week with trials and club musters for pre-season training.
"There has been huge progress on the new Port Turf, which was the old sand turf. The tarsealing was finished on Saturday afternoon and they are busy with the final gradient checks of the seams in the asphalt. Then it needs roughly two weeks of curing before we are ready for the rubber shock pad to be laid and then the final blue carpet will go in after that.