TEMPORARY ICE STADIUM
FACELIFT IN TURNHOUT, BELGIUM
Building a new arena in the sports hub of Lausanne is now going ahead, complete with an ice rink and an indoor swimming hall with Olympic pools. It will take two years to finish the new arena. But not to worry, the National League A hockey club will still to be able to train and host games in the arena as usual during the two-year construction phase – in a temporary ice hockey stadium built by NUSSLI.
The pool in the Belgian town of Turnhout has been given a thorough facelift – and an extension of its facilities. The DBFMO project now has training and teaching pools, a fun zone and a wellness area.
The LHC’s (Lausanne Hockey Club) interim stadium will be 66 metres wide and 96 metres long. An ice rink and a grandstand system with 6,700 spectator seats are planned for the hall interior. Athletes and fans will still have all their usual amenities: a hospitality zone, media and press rooms, cloakrooms, offices, equipment rooms, a shop and ticket office will also be built in the stadium. Turnkey solutions provider NUSSLI planned this innovative project with support from BG Ingenieure Lausanne. The reason why this project is so innovative is that it will be the first temporary ice stadium ever built. The extensive range of equipment necessary for producing the ice and the resulting humidity posed a thorny, but definitely not unsolv able challenge for the planners. They are already considering other options for the fully equipped temporary ice stadium when it is no longer required as a temporary stadium for the LHC. Among other things, the new building will serve as the Lausanne Hockey Club’s home stadium and as the location of the 2020 Youth Olympics.
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Structural improvement work has been performed on the basement, pool basins, floors and plant rooms, and the technology employed guarantees a final and sustainable solution for the pool. To deal with ground water issues, 1,680 cubic metres of concrete has been used, which is approximately 4 million kilos. The leisure pool has a great deal to offer all ages, with a kids’ world, a fun and leisure zone and a 25 metre training pool and a beginners’ pool – both with moveable floors. The wellness area has a whirlpool, sauna and three steam rooms. The play zone and the 74 metre long slide stand out particularly. The slide has three dimensional effects, for which the user can choose his or her own theme, like Halloween or disco. Or you can try and score as many points as possible along the way by touching parts of the slide. The restaurant area offers views of the kids’ world and the 25 metre pool. Outside, a spray park has been realised. This DBFMO project has been realised together with ESSA engineers and architects, and with operator Optisport, who will operate the pool for 20 years.
Pellikaan Bouwbedrijf B.V. www.pellikaan.com sb 3/2017