- Gold winner: Jamie Beard MCIOB
- Willmott Dixon
- Project: Tameside Wellness Centre, Denton, Manchester
- Scope: Construction of two-storey leisure centre, completed in 63 weeks
- Client: Network Space
- Contract: JCT D&B 2016
- Value: £11.5m
Jamie Beard’s experience of swimming pool construction was invaluable on this leisure centre job. He spent £90,000 upfront rather than the budgeted £25,000 to ensure the waterproofing system was designed, installed and warranted by the same contractor. The move ensured no subsequent rectification of the pool slab waterproofing was required, an issue on his previous schemes.
Rather than building a traditional in-situ concrete tank for the pool, he cut installation time by putting in a prefabricated stainless steel structure imported from Italy. Using his experience, he positioned the super-large water balance tanks outside the building rather than under the pool surround to avoid a potentially tricky insertion operation.
Beard also changed the pool slab depth from 600mm to 225mm on top of piles, saving cost and time, reducing the amount of concrete and rebar required, and derisked the waterproofing solution.
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