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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
QUESTION NO.10
QUESTION: Councillor L. O'Toole
This committee requests an update from the Chief Executive (CE) regarding the delivery and progress of the Lucan Pool project, including any timelines, developments, and current status.
REPLY:
Progress continues to be made on the construction at Lucan Pool Campus. The childcare portion of the leisure centre is open to the public and the area for the boxing club to use for storage between now and the opening of the building will be available to them from Nov 25th.
The contractor submitted a revised programme in September as previously noted, with a completion date at the end of November. In order to mitigate against any potential further delay to the wet areas having a knock-on impact delaying overall completion of the building, SDCC in consultation with the operator have developed a detailed plan for phased completion and handover of the building. This plan prioritises the completion, commissioning and snagging of the dry areas of the building at the earliest possible stage.
The car park external lighting is largely complete. Large areas of tarmacing of the car park, including completions on the public road were completed on 1st November. The front façade and service area of the building is largely complete and they are working their way out of the heavy external works from the west of the site to allow clear access for the operator and the public. Access has been given to the operators to allow their IT contractors to commence integrating their systems with the building management software and hardware.
Sectional completion 1 for the gym area is estimated for December 2024 with Public access in the New Year, subject to sufficient resourcing by the contractor and sub-contractors. The suite of BCAR certificates will be required for sectional completion and the preparation for this is ongoing. When agreeing the phased strategy, the contractor was instructed to progress and complete the pool area (sectional completion 2) as soon as possible after sectional completion 1 but all parties have been maintaining focus of their resources on the priority of sectional completion .
A site visit for all Elected Members will be arranged for early December.
The SDCC team and their design team continue to intensively engage with the Contractor to bring this much needed and much anticipated project to completion for the Lucan area.