Latest Project Update - October 2025

Construction progress on site over last month

• Epoxy coating to Balance Tanks & Pool Gutters
• Pool tiling and grouting
• Feature Wall tiling 90% complete
• Family change room – completion of wall linings
• Upper Car Park – Complete rainwater tank installation and backfill
• FC sheeting to exterior facades & high level louvres
• Allied Health room – Installation of glazing framing
• Filter connections & Electrical trays to 25m Plant room
• Existing Sports Hall – Final painting of western/southern elevations

Focus of construction work in coming month

• Waterproofing & tiling of the Family Change Room
• Balance tank waterproof coating
• Continuation of Pool tiling and grouting
• Upper Car Park – Rainwater tank connections
• Continuation of FC sheeting to exterior facades & high level louvres
• Allied Health room – Lining of walls and glazing
• Existing Sports Hall – installation of downpipe shrouds

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
• Concrete slabs for upper level plant rooms
• Structural steel columns & roof beams to northern & southern sector of the site
• Steel framed wall on Eastern side
• Installation of new Electrical Substation
• Timber Purlins
• Installation of 2 x Mechanical A/C Units
• Official water testing of all pool shells
• Kingspan sheeting on northern roof of the pool hall
• Roofing & cladding on the existing sports hall & central spine
• Cladding to existing sports hall & central spine
• Installation of Solar Panels
• Tower Crane removed
• Internal scaffolding removed from the Pool Hall
• Roof Structure over community room
• Installation of the Main Switchboard

Other relevant project updates over the last month

Continuation of the Asbestos Management Plan - daily air monitoring continuing

The main central spine of the centre is now closed for refurbishment works, and the main entry has been relocated to the south/west corner of the sports hall. The Gym will be closed from 30th June 2025, for a number of months while internal works are in progress.