New Extensions Now OPEN! The solution: • We identified a large amount of storage and maintenance space behind the existing change rooms. We then worked with our architects on a way to build a new change room and provide both wet and dry access to this new area while maintaining access to existing change facilities.
The refurbishment and expansion of the Fitness Edge is now complete. With the original plan commencing in 2010, the concept to completion has taken well over two years.
• After solving these problems on paper, we had to then build a new change room and minimise disruption. After completion of this first hurdle we then converted the old female change room into a new male change room and relocated male members. (This was successfully accomplished, albeit with a small step back, giving females use of the new male change rooms while we rectified some flooring issues and other defects in the new female change rooms). •
A review of what we did in that time: THE PROBLEMS FACED • Tired change rooms (12 years old) needed refurbishment – a difficult task when you trade up to 17½ hours per day and need wet area access for the swimming pool at all times. • Facilities that were at stretching point in peak hour. • Insufficient equipment at peak times. • A popular centre in need of some ‘new life’.
A New Group Fitness Room and other spaces: The solution: Build a new Group Fitness Room by converting a large portion of the previous Hawk’s Lounge and convert the old Group Fitness Room into new spaces for: •
THE SOLUTIONS
New Change Rooms: The first problem to solve was the change room refurbishment. How could this be done without a major impact on members’ usage and the viability of the centre?
Convert the old male change room into a family change room, primarily for use by the swim school, but also acting as a back up for the other two change areas for future maintenance.
A new second weights room. The additional space provided allowed us to purchase additional items of weight/strength based equipment as well as relocating all the strength equipment from the cardio room. New equipment in this room includes additional pieces of our most popular equipment, as well as some new specialty strength units making the Fitness Edge undoubtedly the best offering for strength based equipment in the area in quality and range. (continued over the page)
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