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FacilityCase Study

ABBEY STADIUM LEISURE CENTREREDDITCH, WORCESTERSHIRE Status: Completed 2012Client: Redditch Borough CouncilValue: £6.0m

Creating a sporting habit for life

The Abbey Stadium Leisure Centre is a truly innovative project. The new wet side addition to the existing dry side sports centre is heated by the neighbouring crematorium. This is the first project of its type to be completed in the UK and it has shown other Local Authorities how innovative approaches to sustainability can result in real revenue benefits.

The new facilities consist of a 25 m x 6 lane competition swimming pool, learner pool, pool viewing for 300 spectators and a wet changing village. The existing dry side centre was refurbished to create two new fitness suites, an exercise studio, a refurbished 5 court sports hall and new changing areas. Extensive redevelopment has allowed the existing facility to be seamlessly linked to the new swimming pool building. A new full-height atrium provides a visual link between both the ground and first floors and the wet and dry sides of the facility.

The centre includes heat reclamation plant to use waste heat from the adjacent crematorium. This provides efficient heating of both the main pool and the learner pool.

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Reclaimed heat from the neighbouring crematorium heats the swimming pools, reducing the Client’s operating costs considerably.

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Heat Reclamation

An innovative plan to capture the waste heat from the adjacent crematorium and use it to heat the swimming pool was used at this facility and the centre has subsequently been recognised for its green credentials.

The scheme won a Green Apple Award as part of a national scheme to find Britain’s greenest companies and organisations. The award was presented at a ceremony in London on June 20th 2011 and the project will be included in the Green Book, an international reference work on environmental best practice.

When the project – the first of its kind in the UK – was announced, a few negative comments received widespread publicity, but it also received widespread support from local residents and observers further afield with more than 80% of responses from local residents being supportive.

The opportunity arises out of a new EU directive that means councils must reduce the mercury emissions from their cremators by 50%. This requires them to install filters on cremator chimneys to treat the gases coming from the furnace. However, because the furnaces burn at about 800ºC and the filters don’t work at such high temperatures, the exhaust gases have to be cooled.

The scheme is an elegant solution to two problems – the need to cool the exhaust gas from the cremator and the need to heat a swimming pool – that becomes more attractive every time utility prices rise.

Using heat exchangers, the waste heat is transferred to heat the swimming pools at the leisure centre, creating one of the greenest leisure centres in the country – the heat provides 42% of the leisure centre’s total heat demand – and reduces the entire council’s CO2 emissions by 4% a year.

There are no real planning implications to such schemes because the pipework is buried, although careful consideration of the route of the pipe was necessary to ensure that it did not disturb burial grounds.

Projects such as Redditch’s demonstrate the importance of Local Authorities taking a holistic view of their operations and looking for opportunities to make savings across their estates.

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DADyer HarrisonDyer DouganDyer CorganDyer

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ABBEY STADIUM LEISURE CENTRE

REDDITCH

PROPOSED SITE PLAN

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SITE SECTION BASED ON TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEY INFORMATION ASPRODUCED BY "MIDLANDS SURVEY LTD". ALL LIABILITIES TO REMAIN WITH"MIDLANDS SURVEY LTD" FOR THE ACCURACY OF THE SURVEY INFORMATION.

B 11.12.2009 LG MB

C 15.01.2010 SH MB

REV H - TENDER ISSUE

D 20.01.2010 BG MB

DEVELOPMENT SITE BOUNDARY

OTHER LAND IN COUNCIL (APPLICANT)OWNERSHIP

EXISTING PARKING SPACES

TOTAL PARKING SPACES = 90 DISABLED SPACES = 7

PROPOSED PARKING

MAIN CAR PARKING SPACES = 109 DISABLED PARKING SPACES = 8 PARENT & CHILD PARKING = 7 STAFF SPACES = 9 MOTORCYCLE SPACES CYCLE SPACES = 36

OVER-SPILL CAR PARK = 30

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INDICATE ZONE FOR EXCESS CUT / FILL.

(TO BE PROFILED WITH MAX 1:5 SLOPES & PLANTED WITH GRASS TOPSOIL - AS

REQUIRED TO FORM LOW LEVEL GRASS MOUNDS)

General Accommodation / Standards‘5-Court’ sports hall (existing)

Basketball, netball, badminton, volleyball, gymnastics, goal-ball, short-mat bowls.

Dance studio Full height mirrors to 50% of walls. Column free, timber sprung floor.

Fitness suite (2 no.) A free weights fitness suite 100 m2 and a cardio fitness suite at 250 m2.

Swimming pool Internal dimensions 25 x 13 m (6 no. competition lanes) with an accessible platform lift for disabled access. Users – general public, persons with disabilities, recreational, training & competitions. 300 spectator seats for regional swimming galas.

Vending area Open plan to entrance area with seating and a small server for events.

Changing areas Dedicated dry side and wet side to respective facilities.

Youth and community centre

A youth and community centre sub let to the Council for provision of youth services in the area.

Schedule of AreasGross Site Area 8,000 m2

Building Footprint Area 3,300 m2

Net Internal Floor Area (new build - all floors) 2,100 m2

Circulation Area % of Building Footprint Area (inclusive of foyer and reception)

10 %

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DADyer HarrisonDyer DouganDyer CorganDyer

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TREE SURVEY PLAN

3109_A(94)S0_001 B

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SITE SECTION BASED ON TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEY INFORMATION ASPRODUCED BY "MIDLANDS SURVEY LTD". ALL LIABILITIES TO REMAIN WITH"MIDLANDS SURVEY LTD" FOR THE ACCURACY OF THE SURVEY INFORMATION.

PROPOSED NEW TREES (DWARF HEIGHT) TO BE PLANTED

EXISTING TREES TO BE REMOVED

EXISTING TREES TO BE RETAINED

DEVELOPMENT SITE BOUNDARY

OTHER LAND IN COUNCIL (APPLICANT)OWNERSHIP

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Site plan

Adjacent crematorium

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The innovative approach used to heat the pools will hopefully encourage other Local Authorities to think of ways they can reduce running costs across their estates.

Procurement / ProgrammeTender OJEU restricted procedure

Contract Design and Build JCT ‘05

Duration Approx 3 years from mobilisation to practical completion.

Environmental Sustainability• Heat reclamation from adjacent

crematorium

• Biodiversity nature pond

• Natural ventilation

• Solar hot water system

• Rainwater recycling.

Summary of Elemental CostsElement Total Cost (£) Cost (£) per m2

1 Substructure 450,000 2102 Superstructure 1,200,000 5503 Finishes 400,000 1804 Fittings and furnishings 200,000 955 Services 1,400,000 6506 External works 1,450,000 2807 Preliminaries 500,000 2408 Contingencies - -9 Design Fees 200,000 60

TOTAL CONTRACT SUM 5,800,000 1,750

Specific Items of InterestElement Area (m2)

Spectator seating 195

Dance studio 100Fitness suites 350Swimming pool - main 606Swimming pool - learner 203Atrium 225Changing facilities 327

General Description of Key Specifications and MaterialsFrame SteelCladding Composite metal cladding panels, brickwork

and render Roofing Composite panels and single ply membraneInternal walls and partitions

Blockwork

Internal doors Encapsulated for pool environmentsWall finishes Plasterboard and painted blockworkFloors Vinyl, tiled and carpet Swimming pool Tiled pool surround and walls, exposed

acoustic soffitLighting Lux

levelsType

Sports hall 350 Surface mounted linear fluorescentPool zone 300 Metal halide floodlights

Fitness suite 400 Recessed linear fluorescentExercise studio 300 Recessed linear fluorescent

Changing spaces 200 Recessed fluorescent downlighters

Notes:1. Costs stated are rounded and based on 2nd Quarter 2010.

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Peter Curtis

Director at Drivers Jonas Deloitte