Something for everyone (clockwise from top right): Pavilion Flint offers a fi tness suite, as well as a range of new facilities – ten pin bowling to appeal to families, a new pirate-themed kids’ play area, and fl at green bowling for the senior market
CASE STUDY – Jade Jones Pavilion Flint, North Wales
In July 2012, Alliance Leisure completed a £2m extension and refurbishment project at the Jade Jones Pavilion Flint in North Wales. At the heart of the project was the redevelopment of the
sports hall. After carrying out site investigations, Alliance discovered that it needed new pile foundations to take the weight of the new project proposals, which consisted of an eight-lane ten pin bowling alley on the ground fl oor, and a four-lane fl at green bowling rink on a new mezzanine level. Because of the poor soil structure on the site, Alliance contractor ISG used a mini continuous fl ight auger piling
payback on this can be relatively quick. For example, we’ll always introduce modern, effi cient lighting to any building project we’re working on from top to bottom, as the energy savings this yields over time can enable the leisure centre to recoup the cost of the capital outlay in just a few years. It’s a false economy to cut elements
like this out of the budget just to bring proposed costs down.
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system to construct new foundations. Although this method comes at a higher cost, it meant minimum vibration and noise for the existing, occupied leisure centre, including the adjacent swimming pool facility. Choosing this building route meant The Pavilion was able to stay open for the entire 28-week build period, and therefore maintain its usual revenue stream. Other facilities at the leisure centre include a fi tness suite,
a 25-metre swimming pool and children’s pool, café and licensed bar, and multi-activity studios for fi tness and dance classes – along with a new pirate-themed children’s soft play area, which was added as part of the redevelopment project.
How do the site fi ndings feed into the overall process? On the basis of these investigations, we’re able to carry out a block planning exercise that comes up with the overall size and shape of the development, together with the content and what it will cost (usually within 10–15 per cent of the final fixed cost). If there are any real show-stoppers at this stage, which is very rare, the client
can choose to walk away and just bear the cost of the site investigations. Sometimes, at this stage, the local
authority might want to scale down some elements of the project to make savings. If they proceed with the plan, the site
investigation costs are absorbed into Alliance’s overall development costs. We then go on to commission architects, and draw up a more robust cost plan and a bill of quantities. ●
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