Pool building design reworked after bids
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Updated: July 09, 2009 6:16 PM
Armstrong-Spallumcheen’s new swimming pool building is getting a re-design.
The area’s recreation commission was forced to re-examine its design plans after original tenders for the building all came in alarmingly high.
The lowest bid received was nearly 50 per cent higher than the commission’s $1 million budget.
Spallumcheen Coun. Dave Brew, who sits on the commission, said the original plan of constructing a two-storey building with the lower level built into the surrounding Park Drive bank has been altered.
“The old building, where the change rooms are, we’re going to make that into a pump house and for chemical storage,” explained Brew. “A new changeroom will be built with exactly the same plans for the top-storey of the two-storey building we were going to build.
“We’re not deleting anything and there’s no change to the pool. We’re just using a different format.”
Brew said negotiations are beginning on tenders for the new building, and hopes construction of the facility can start after the Interior Provincial Exhibition at the end of August.
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