Collaborators :
Hodge Collard Preston (Architects), City of Joondalup, BE Projects
AWARDS :
2024 Pool and Leisure Australia (WA) Awards
Community Centre of the Year
This $9.1M project demonstrates the capacity of Airey Taylor Consulting to effectively expand the capacity of a popular Leisure Centre to accommodate expanded creche (with external play area) and group fitness facilities in one building; gymnasium, wellness facilities and ablutions in another; with greatly expanded car parking with amended traffic controls as a Civil component.
ATC worked closely with Hodge Collard Preston to create the award-winning expansion to the Community Hub.
The function and scope of the project included addition of new structures and facilities greatly enhanced the operations of an existing and popular recreational centre. The project was commissioned on 5 May 2020 and final IFC drawings were issued on 2 July 2021, with construction commencing in August 2021 and launching in April 2022. Further additions that extended construction time following commissioning by the City of Joondalup included the addition of a Kiss and Ride roadway circling around the back of the structure; structural upgrades to the existing fire wall; and reporting on curing and NDT of the slab and relevant expanded pre-cast walls.
This expansion used standard concrete slabs with differing floor treatments depending on the expanded space – with the group fitness room featuring sprung wooden flooring treatments to enhance function for classes; whereas other areas featured epoxy, pavigym and other treatments as required.
The gymnasium/wellness building (and particularly the gym space) featured a solution to modify the existing pre-cast boundary walls into internal arches (with intrinsic columns, seen on right) and then surround the expanded slab with new pre-cast walls to significantly expand the floor space of the building (maximising the access to equipment housed in the new outer area of the gym) for both a structurally efficient and aesthetically pleasing result.
Roof extensions were largely created using structural steel and purlins, with the walling of the new areas for the creche and group fitness created in brickwork.
Successful completion of the project led to the further commission of Hodge Collard Preston and Airey Taylor Consulting of an outdoor café at the site on 9 May 2023.
The celebration of the project as Best Community Facility in the 2024 Pool and Leisure Australia (WA) Awards are recognition of the end result delivered to staff, resident and visitors of the City of Joondalup and a demonstration of highly integrated Architectural and Engineering know how on the completed project.
