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PQS (Performance Quality Standards) can be defined as 'A complete representation of a product that has a range of clearly defined and measurable criteria that are associated with a specified level of quality'. This method of quantifiying the quality of a facility can be applied across all sporting sectors. Specifically covered within this rugby PQS document are:

• Performance Quality Standards
• Methods of Test
• Performance Quality Standard Tables
• Structural Quality
• Presentational Quality
• Playing Quality .
• Test Locations
• Timing of the Tests
• Recommended Minimum Number of Assessments
• Understanding Performance Quality Standard Tables
• Inference of Playing Quality by Properties of Structural Quality Determining Overall Quality
• Determining Overall Qua

The autobiography of Bob (Rob) Corbin, a founding member of the IOG, past IOG President & board member, recipient of the IOG Lifetime Achievement Award and the first fellow member of the Institute. This publication tells the story of Bobs life and his achievements with beautiful illustrations and pictures from his life and the horticultural world.

Born and schooled in the New Forest he began his career as a garden boy for two spinsters in Hampshire. This was a stepping stone into the gardening world that saw him as 'Bothy Boy' at some of the finest country mansions in the UK.

Amount his finest achievements as Horticultural Manager of London County Council was the landscaping of the heavily blitzed housing estates in war torn London and the refurbishment of the Royal Parks including advising HM The Queen on the Ceremonial Lawns at Buckingham Palace