Project Profile: Elmbridge Leisure Centre

Client
Willmott Dixon
Date of completion
September 2006
Value
£1.4m
Demolition, Groundworks, Ground Stabilisation, Swimming Pool Excavation, Piling, Drainage, External Works & Landscaping.
elmbridge 2

Scope of works

 

  • Demolition

  • Groundworks

  • Ground stabilisation

  • Swimming pool excavation

  • Piling

  • Drainage

  • External works and landscaping.

Elmbridge leisure 3

Project key points

 

  • An eight lane, 25m swimming pool to tolerances of -0/+10mm

  • Dynamic compaction used to induce settlement across the site

  • Pre-cast concrete bearing piles

  • Pile caps, a ground bearing slab and single-storey basement

  • Close proximity to high pressure Kerosene pipelines feeding Heathrow Airport

  • Demolition arisings were crushed on site and used for the piling mat as backfill

  • Hard landscaping, external works and topsoil placing