Project Description

Services:

Client:

Department of Sport & Recreation

Contract Value:

$33 million

Design:

Sandover Pinder & Suters

WT Partnership is currently providing cost planning and quantity surveying services for the construction of the new Western Australian Institute of Sport High Performance Centre

The project leverages existing state level sports infrastructure within the Mount Claremont Sporting Precinct which comprises Challenge Stadium, WA Athletics Stadium, WA Basketball Centre, WA Rugby Centre and The University of Western Australia Sports Park.

The ground floor will house specialist training and testing functions including strength and conditioning gym, multi-purpose training and testing area, 80m four lane indoor runway for long jump, sprinting and throwing sports, which also includes a 10m ceiling height to support the national pole vault program, hydrotherapy and recovery pools, physiology and environmental laboratories for sports science research and testing, consultation rooms for drug testing, anthropometry, physiotherapy and medical analysis and athlete amenities (study, passive recreation, meeting) and change rooms. First floor comprising office space for staff and coaches, including meeting rooms and staff amenities.

Construction is anticipated to commence in the first half of 2013. It is hoped that athletes will be utilising the facility by December 2014 in their preparation for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.