Project update - September 2023
Here's the latest update:
Site activities:
Another great month here at Kingsland Leisure Centre and great to see the building finally coming out of the ground. The steel frame has been progressing well over the last few weeks and the building is now taking shape. The pools are now full of water and testing is ongoing. The infiltration basin has been backfilled and spread with topsoil. Our ground workers continued to prepare the remaining areas of the ground floor slab and progressed the foundations and the under slab drainage works.
The removal of the slabs and foundations of the former school buildings is now complete and we have levelled most of the former school site in readiness for the commencement of the car park works.
Community engagement
We are still actively looking for enthusiastic individuals who are looking to find out more about construction who would like to carry out work experience on site. For more information, please use the contact form, located at the bottom of this page.
To celebrate National Inclusion Week 2023 (25th September to 1st October) we will be hosting a drop in coffee morning on site, a poster with more information will be sent out in shortly.
Upcoming work
Steel erection will be ongoing ready for the installation of the glulam beams being delivered and installed on the structure. Glulam beams are a structurally engineered wood product comprised of layers of multi-dimensional timber bonded together with durable, moisture resistant adhesives. The first set of beams will be arriving from the wood mill in The Netherlands towards the end of the month.
With the pool testing coming to completion, we will commence the installation the pool filtration system.
The concrete to the remaining sections of ground floor and drainage works will be ongoing ahead of further structural steel works.
We will shortly commence the processing of the materials produced by the demolition of the former school buildings, this material will be crushed on site and then reused in the build up to the new Leisure Centre car park.