Latest project update - October 2024

Construction progress on site over last month

• Concourse slab around pools is predominately complete
• Family Change Room – Walls & columns poured
• Upper plant room – Concrete slab above family change room complete
• Concrete walls around eastern spa area poured
• Water testing of pools
• Scaffold ‘bird cage’ installed for steel framework construction
• Ring beam to support the pool hall’s structural steel complete

Focus of construction work in coming month

• Structural steel delivery to site
• Erection of structural steel columns & beams for northern end of the site
• Completion of pool cover concrete boxes
• Completion of concourse slab
• Existing plant room slab integration
• Filtration pipes to southern wall void to be installed
• Completion of slab base for Electrical Sub Station

Completed works

Since the pool closed on 19 November 2022, the following works have been completed:

• Site establishment
• Demolition of the old pool hall
• Implementation of Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) approved Asbestos Management Plan protocols with excavation and removal of some asbestos contaminated soil.
• Construction of new piles to support the pool hall
• Structural retaining wall on the site’s north-eastern boundary completed
• Capping of contaminated soil on 100% of the site
• New stormwater line in Small Street
• Below ground backwash tanks for the 25m and program pools
• Pool Concrete shells are complete for the 25m Pool, Program Pool, Learn to Swim Pool and Spa
• Concrete ring beams to support steel columns

Other relevant project updates over the last month

• A new time lapse video, showing construction between January and July 2024, has been added to the project website.
• Continuation of the Asbestos Management Plan - daily air monitoring continuing

Centre facilities currently open

• Health club and sports hall, including a full range of land-based group fitness classes

Expected project completion date

• 2025

Project photographs from October 2026.