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Birmingham City Council opens Northfield Leisure Centre
Northfield’s new Leisure Centre, featuring a 25m swimming pool, a teaching pool, a 75 station gym and a community room/studio space has officially opened to the public. The £7.7m replacement of Northfield’s pool
and fitness centre is part of a city-wide investment of nearly £40m by Birmingham City Council and is the third new complex to be completed. Birmingham Community Leisure Trust (BCLT), working in partnership with Birmingham City Council and Sport England, has overseen the project and will manage the new centre. Cllr Ian Ward, leader of Birmingham City
Council, said: “We make much of the city’s ability to host world-class sporting events, not least the Commonwealth Games in 2022 – but our approach to sport and leisure is to ensure just as much importance is placed on community facilities and grassroots participation.”
Sportcampus Zuiderpark offers unique design features
Located at the heart of the historic Zuiderpark, the €50m Sportcampus Zuiderpark is an innovative collaboration of alliances between education, sport, sport science and the community, for both the municipality of The Hague and its private partners: the Haagse Hogeschool and ROC Mondriaan. The aim of the design, created by Faulkner
Browns Architects, is to emphasise the importance of sport and exercise through learning and engagement, for the amateur as well as the elite athlete, using sport as the inspiration to deliver a healthier society. The 33,000sq m sports campus includes a
gymnastics hall, beach sports hall, spectator arena and a multi-purpose sports hall as well as a variety of sports science and education spaces. The municipality of The Hague aims to be
climate neutral by 2040, so this has influenced the design. The 20,000sq m roof is covered with over 15,000sq m of heat-regulating green sedum, as well as photovoltaic solar panels to generate energy for the building and solar collectors to produce hot water for the showers. The energy generated by the roof is supplemented by a ground water heating and cooling system which utilises two wells excavated to different depths. In the summer, groundwater is pumped from the shallower ‘cold’ water well and fed through a heat exchanger to provide cooling for the building. Due to this energy transfer the water returns
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warmed and is fed back into the deeper ‘warm’ water well. In the winter the system is reversed to provide heating to the building.
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