Taiora: QEII Recreation and Sport Centre

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CLIENT:  Christchurch City Council

LOCATION:  Christchurch

COMPLETED:  May 2018

After a long association and a number of previous council aquatic work, Christchurch City Council selected Apollo Projects to build the new Taiora: QEII Recreation and Sport Centre. This project finished May 2018.

The facility boasts a lazy river, a splashpad and adjoined toddler’s pool, a large aqua dunker which is always a hit amongst swimmers regardless of age. A ‘learn to swim’ pool, a 25x25m 10-lane pool, a spa, steam room and sauna, café, small retail area and birthday party room. The comprehensive fitness centre features a large weights area, fitness studio and spin room. The Aquasphere is a 120-metre hydroslide where riders enter a sphere and bank around the walls before dropping back into the high-speed twists and turns for the rest of the ride. It is a first for New Zealand and the ultimate in excitement for hydroslide lovers.

The 10-lane pool has a moveable floor, a first for Christchurch. It provides enhanced programming opportunities for the pools, meaning more can be done simultaneously in the pool. The moveable floor will cover half the pool so deepwater activity can happen on one side and shallower activities such as aqua fitness or swimming lessons can happen on the other.

As the area suffered major liquefaction in the quakes the new pools are Natare Stainless Steel walled. This technology is more seismic friendly and allows the pools to be re-levelled up to 50mm in the event of future earthquakes.

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We are a nationwide Design and Build company with specialist knowledge and experience across verticals as diverse as cold storage, dairy, wine, food and beverage processing, commercial and retail spaces, and recreation and leisure.

Whatever the project, our focus is simple - listen to our client and deliver absolute trust and certainty from the start.

At Apollo, we've never been afraid to challenge the status quo.

When Craig Waghorn and Paul Lloyd started Apollo in 2001, they were determined to break away from the traditional management process and do things differently. They saw an opportunity to partner with clients from the very start, taking their ideas right from concept all the way through to completion – something that was poorly executed in the industry!

Today, Apollo is a leading New Zealand design and construction company with over 40 professional project delivery and support staff across the country. We regularly work with major national companies including Fonterra, Goodman Fielder, George Weston Foods, Ngai Tahu and Lion Co., as well as private owner-operated businesses, sports organisations and Government/Council entities.

Even though Apollo has grown over eighteen years, we’ve never lost our core value that a ‘client’s trust is everything’. Apollo is different simply because we operate as a partner with our clients – our goal from the very beginning has always been to build strong relationships from which we can deliver successful projects.