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The costs explode: City puts indoor swimming pool expansion on hold

2021-02-13T07:13:22.196Z


The expansion of the indoor pool to include a teaching pool and a toddler area has been stopped for the time being. For cost reasons, the city is content with a necessary renovation. The teaching pool can be built later.


The expansion of the indoor pool to include a teaching pool and a toddler area has been stopped for the time being.

For cost reasons, the city is content with a necessary renovation.

The teaching pool can be built later.

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- Four and a half years ago the city council decided to expand the indoor swimming pool according to the plans of the Munich architects Hugues.

The extension to include a teaching pool had become necessary because the small bath of the Wittelsbach school fell victim to the extension of the school.

A new parent-child area should also make the indoor pool more attractive than before.

All of this is now history.

Mainly for cost reasons, which have become even more crucial due to Corona, the original plans were thrown overboard.

The estimated costs of around 8.2 million euros at the beginning of planning had risen to almost twelve million euros in June 2019.

New variant

The city has therefore commissioned the Stockdorf engineering office of Wolfgang Maurer to develop a cost-effective variant of the bathroom extension.

Maurer has now presented the results to the works committee.

Accordingly, a renovation of the more than 40 year old indoor pool is absolutely necessary in order to be able to continue using it.

Above all, the changing area with an outdated ventilation system and the shower systems should definitely be renewed.

In addition, the facades in the north and south of the building complex have to be renewed.

In the northern area, according to Maurer, water can enter when it rains.

The fear that the concrete structure of the pools would also have to be fundamentally renovated has not come true, according to Maurer.

An investigation has shown that this is not so dramatic.

Maurer: “There is no acute need for action.” It is sufficient to treat the existing minor damage.

The costs of around 15,000 euros are kept within reasonable limits.

Less swimming lessons

According to Mauerer, the costs for the necessary renovation are around 4.7 million euros.

With the repair, the later addition of a teaching pool is still possible.

That would then cost an additional 3.5 million euros.

Stadtwerke chief Roland Schmid reported to the committee that all occupancy times of the previous users of the teaching pool could also be made available in the indoor pool.

This affects the schools and clubs, but also the adult education center and the health center.

However, the demand for swimming courses cannot be met 100 percent.

That would only work with a teaching pool.

The city councils unanimously followed the administration's proposal to renovate the indoor swimming pool as explained by Maurer.

At the same time, the previous award procedure for the original expansion plans was stopped and the project decision of the city council was canceled.

According to Mayor Andreas Haas, the renovation should start soon.

According to Wolfgang Maurer, a longer closure of the pool is probably not necessary.

According to the planner, if it is properly planned, it can be implemented during a summer closure.

Source: merkur

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