Work has begun to create a new state-of-the-art £4.3M leisure centre for Carshalton College in London.

 

Carshalton College appointed Pulse the UK’s leading Total Leisure Solutions Company as their preferred partner to manage the project in its entirety. As part of the 30 year partnership agreement with the college, Pulse will invest £2.7M in the project and will be solely responsible for the design, build and operation of the new leisure facility.

 

The first phase of the project saw the demolition of the tired existing sports hall to make way for the construction of the new purpose built leisure facility. The project is expected to take 52 weeks to complete with an anticipated opening summer 2010.

 

Robin Greenaway, Vice Principal at the college is extremely excited about the project and the new facilities it will provide to the students. “This is an important step forward in renewing our sports and recreation facilities” says Robin, “ What Pulse have proposed is a superb mix of leisure facilities, that will benefit the college and wider community and with Pulse providing a significant amount of investment and their ability to provide a single source solution, it helped to fast-track the whole process.”

The new centre will feature an 18m swimming pool, luxury thermal suite, sports hall, quality changing facilities, two dance studios and a 70 station Pulse fitness suite.

 

The centre will be a flagship site for Pulse too, as a new build project it provided the Pulse team of designers and architects a blank canvass with which to create a state-of-the-art facility, with none of the usual compromises normally encountered when developing existing leisure centre facilities.

 

“This is a really exciting time for everyone involved in the Carshalton College Leisure Centre project” says Aron Nassim, Director of Projects at Pulse “We have been able to bring our creativity and expertise to this project and create the ideal blue print for leisure facility development”.

 

As part of Pulse’s environmental commitment, during the demolition of the old sports hall, the building rubble and materials were recycled to form part of the new ground works at the 2012 Olympic stadium site in London.