Sep 15, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 14 segments
Patrick Beazley, Civil Engineer from Lloyd Sports + Engineering, talks about the World Cup and imposter syndrome. Hear what went into the 2-foot base for the pitch and what it was like being on the…
So like what part of the engineering are you do? Like, I mean, you were talking earlier, like there's, there's drainage, there's light layout, there's lighting, all kinds of stuff.
Like what part or do you kind of do all of it or just learning all of it? Or what part do you do?
So if somebody wants to build a new baseball field or an athletics track, you need a set of engineering plans to do that, to install it properly.
And there's some very fine specifications that you have to adhere to depending on the sport.
So we help people through the planning and layout and everything um mass grade logistics and then we do all drainage design irrigation design we detail interfaces between the field and then maybe where the grandstand is or the field and where the fence is and do all the things you could think of that make it in a sports field but that gets engineered and designed by people like us
Was the training, do you feel like there was differences between going to school in Australia versus the U.S. in terms of some of the engineering styles or what they found important versus what is here? Or is it very similar? Well, everything's in
So that was really pleasing for me to move here and, like, know that, you know, it's all pretty similar.
Like civil engineering is a very old profession and, you know, it's very similar no matter where you are in the world.
So that was nice to know that a lot of the skills I had developed in Australia were transportable or applicable here.
But I will say that there's a lot more money in sports here in the US in terms of investment.
And there's a lot of private teams and private fields and stadiums getting built.
So, you know, there's 32 NFL teams, 30 baseball teams, major league baseball teams, all the minor leagues.
So in Australia, you're saying the publicly funded, like is it like through the country, through, is it a, It's not a state.
So like what part of the engineering are you do? Like, I mean, you were talking earlier, like there's, there's drainage, there's light layout, there's lighting, all kinds of stuff.
Like what part or do you kind of do all of it or just learning all of it? Or what part do you do?
So if somebody wants to build a new baseball field or an athletics track, you need a set of engineering plans to do that, to install it properly.
And there's some very fine specifications that you have to adhere to depending on the sport.
So we help people through the planning and layout and everything um mass grade logistics and then we do all drainage design irrigation design we detail interfaces between the field and then maybe where the grandstand is or the field and where the fence is and do all the things you could think of that make it in a sports field but that gets engineered and designed by people like us
Was the training, do you feel like there was differences between going to school in Australia versus the U.S. in terms of some of the engineering styles or what they found important versus what is here? Or is it very similar? Well, everything's in
So that was really pleasing for me to move here and, like, know that, you know, it's all pretty similar.
Like civil engineering is a very old profession and, you know, it's very similar no matter where you are in the world.
So that was nice to know that a lot of the skills I had developed in Australia were transportable or applicable here.
But I will say that there's a lot more money in sports here in the US in terms of investment.
And there's a lot of private teams and private fields and stadiums getting built.
So, you know, there's 32 NFL teams, 30 baseball teams, major league baseball teams, all the minor leagues.
So in Australia, you're saying the publicly funded, like is it like through the country, through, is it a, It's not a state.
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