EXISTING CLUBHOUSE /PAVILION

The existing Clubhouse was constructed in the late 1960's with an intended twenty year life span. It is of timber framed construction being single storey and laid with a flat roof. The accommodation houses a main hall, bar areas (2), kitchen, various toilets (including disabled) and several changing rooms and showers. Various upgrades have taken place over those initial years, but more recently repairs to the existing fabric have become more regular and Management feel it is now having a dilatory effect on the club's finances to the point where a new plan of attack has to be put in place.

THE LONG TERM PLAN NEW CLUBHOUSE

Great thought has been given as to how we can create a new, modem, brick clad pavilion that will last for say 60 years or so. The positioning of the new pavilion gave various logistical problems such as

(1) Do we demolish the old pavilion to rebuild in the same position and if we do just that, how do we operate as a Club whilst this is going on?

(2) Do we build on the opposite side of the ground meaning the loss of valuable car parking space and with new problems of services? Both questions gave a simple answer No

We have decided to investigate the possibility of installing a number of concrete pads around the perimeter of the existing building that would receive a steel frame made up of vertical universal columns and rolled steel joists. This method of construction would form a steel support framework that would create a two storey structure with a more sensible 'monopitch' roof design providing very low maintenance. By using this method, we would be creating a newly suspended 1st Floor level over the existing flat roof area of the current pavilion that would enable us to create a brand new 1st Floor set up whilst continuing to 'live' down below. We anticipate constructing a suspended overhang to the front of the building that would form a viewing balcony over the ground for the players at 1st Floor level and provide a recessed covered ground floor entrance below. Once the 1st Floor was ready for occupation, the existing ground floor would become ready for closure and the commencement of 'Phase 2' would begin.

Phase 2

A simple cavity wall construction effacing brick / block on strip footings would form the perimeter walls that would fit up under the newly created steel frame of Phase 1 operations. This construction method would provide good security that meets the needs of this century.

Once the external envelope is erected, internal stripping out operations could proceed and be completed as current finances permit over a three year period.

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