Hillcrest Olympic Curling Centre | Completed

mr.x · #1 Posted **Feb 14, 2008, 8:35 AM**

Hillcrest Curling Venue

Location: Hillcrest/Nat Bailey Stadium Park
Distance from Vancouver Olympic Village: 4 km
Venue Capacity: 6,250 seats
Elevation: 74 m
Completion: Fall 2008

Venue Description
Hillcrest/Nat Bailey Stadium Park is located in a lively Vancouver community that includes the beautiful Queen Elizabeth Park and views of the North Shore mountains. This park is well served by public transportation.

Construction Update
The environmental assessment has been completed and the Olympic Mode design is nearing final completion. A construction manager has been retained for the project. Parking lot construction, site utility installations and bulk excavation are underway. Completion of the building shell is planned for 2007. The entire project will be completed in 2008.

Post-Games Use
After the 2010 Winter Games, the curling venue will become a multi-purpose community recreation centre that will include an ice hockey rink, gymnasium, library and six to eight sheets of curling ice. Attached to, and being constructed with the new curling venue/community centre, is a new aquatic centre with a 50-metre pool and leisure pool to be managed by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation

Curling Venue
- Partial second floor slab between the library and community centre has formed, and all rebar, electrical and mechanical systems are being placed prior to pouring the concrete.
- Concrete roof slabs over the curling club lounge and the echanical/electrical rooms will be poured next.
- The second structural steel truss that supports the roof over the Community Arena was erected on January 16th. The joists connecting the two main trusses and completing that roof are being installed now.
- Structural steel has been completed for the second floor gymnasium roof including all joists.
- Structural roof decking is complete over the curling rink, and will continue over the Arena and Gymnasium next.
- Masonry walls internally and along the east side are progressing well.
- Most of the refrigeration plant is in-place.
- Preparation work on the curling club rink slab is expected to start within the next two weeks.

Aquatic Facility
- Installation of the second floor concrete slab between the change room and fitness studio is complete, and formwork has started for the walls at that level.
- Formwork for the remainder of the pool decks is in-place.
- The glulam beams that will support the Aquatic area roof are either onsite or on their way to site from the fabricator, and the wood for the rest of the roof structure is being painted.
- Hundreds of underground pipes required for the hot pool and leisure pool are being installed to allow for all the water jets and fun features in the design.

Post Olympic Facility Use
Post Olympics the curling venue will convert to the new Riley Park Community Centre, library, Vancouver Curling Club and public ice rink. To make the most of construction efficiencies, the new Percy Norman Pool will be built at the same time. An indoor concourse will connect the facilities with the new pool featuring a leisure tank, 50 meter lap pool and an outdoor aquatic element.

Project Cost and Funding
- Curling Venue - $40.25 million (VANOC)
- Riley Park Complex (conversion) - $12.35 million (Park Board)
- Percy Norman Aquatic Centre - $31.86 (Park Board)

Size
- Hillcrest Curling Venue - 100,000 sq. ft. (9290 sq. meters)
- Percy Norman Aquatic Centre - 60,000 sq. ft. (5574 sq. meters)

Seats
Hillcrest Curling Venue - 6,000

Architect
Hughes Condon Marler Architects

Contractor
Stuart Olson Contractors

Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED)
To be built to LEED* Gold Standard. Heat recovered from ice-making operations will be used to heat the new Percy Norman Aquatic Centre. In addition, groundwater will be recovered for use in the dual flush toilets at the new complex.
* LEED – a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high performance, sustainable buildings.

Expected Completion
Fall 2008

Test Events Prior to 2010 Winter Games
TBA

mr.x · #2 Posted **Feb 14, 2008, 8:39 AM**

View from Library slab to Curling Club

View of Ice Rink with Millenium Building in back

Gymnasium north wall steel supports

Delivery of very large glulam (wood) beam

excel · #3 Posted **Feb 14, 2008, 10:42 AM**

Thanks for finally posting some info on this guy.

deasine · #4 Posted **Feb 15, 2008, 12:25 AM**

i love how this venue will become a really nice community center, a great addition to the area, especially knowing their will be future development along Main St. and Cambie St.

EastVanMark · #5 Posted **Feb 15, 2008, 1:15 AM**

This project is and will be just awesome after the 2010 games. That whole area will be a hub for a wide array of leisure activities and will serve the whole city, not just the immediate neighborhoods. The project has the potential to be the flagship for the idea for use after the games.

deasine · #6 Posted **Feb 15, 2008, 1:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by EastVanMark

This project is and will be just awesome after the 2010 games. That whole area will be a hub for a wide array of leisure activities and will serve the whole city, not just the immediate neighborhoods. The project has the potential to be the flagship for the idea for use after the games.

And it's directly served with transit: #33 Bus 29th Avenue/UBC. It's within two blocks away from Main Street #3 as well as the future 33rd Avenue Canada Line station.

SFUVancouver · #7 Posted **Feb 15, 2008, 7:20 PM**

^ #33 29th-UBC? They started that route already?

mr.x · #8 Posted **Feb 18, 2008, 8:57 PM**

Vanoc Update: Curling

Vancouver Sun
Published: Monday, February 18, 2008

Construction on the Hillcrest curling venue is well underway. Contractors have completed the structural concrete work and much of the structural steel installation. Preparation work, such as surface grading and drainage, has begun and contractors are expecting delivery of the facility's mechanical equipment for heating, ventilation and air conditioning. Stuart Olson Inc. is the main contractor for the $82.2-million facility ($38 million contributed by Vanoc), which includes a new library, community centre and swimming pool for post-Games use. Completion of the Hillcrest facility is set for December of this year.

mr.x · #9 Posted **Mar 2, 2008, 5:22 AM**

Taken today by zivan 56:

SFUVancouver · #10 Posted **Mar 2, 2008, 5:35 AM**

Wow, it is way further along that I had expected. I must say I unfairly judge the progress of the Vancouver venues based soley off of the Trout Lake practice facility, which has only completed the demolition phase.

crazyjoeda · #11 Posted **Mar 2, 2008, 6:37 AM**

I think all the competition venues are already done or almost done.

mr.x · #12 Posted **Mar 2, 2008, 6:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by crazyjoeda

I think all the competition venues are already done or almost done.

All of the sport venues are done except UBC Winter Sports Centre, Hillcrest Olympic Centre, and Richmond oval. All three venues will be opened by summer/early-fall 2008.

All of the Whistler venues and improvements to Cypress are long finished.