Indoor and outdoor pools, waterslides, children's splash zone, sauna and steam rooms, cafe and more - the new Adelaide Aquatic Centre, which opened to the public today, 27 January, has a lot to offer.
The public opening follows about 1500 ballot winners getting to experience the North Adelaid
e centre on its first day of operation yesterday.
More than 2000 people are already enrolled in learn-to-swim and squad classes while 1700 health and wellness memberships for the new centre have been snapped up since they opened in November last year.
After being accommodated at alternative venues across Adelaide during construction, more than 100 sporting, community and health groups will now return to the brand-new facility.
The completion of the project comes less than two years after major construction began in February 2024. Landscaping and installation of new irrigation and turf will continue over the coming month.
More than 1500 full-time equivalent jobs were supported over the life of the project, with more than 2500 people working at pace in recent weeks to complete the finishing touches.
Approximately 2800 cladding panels, 685 tonnes of structural steel, 720 concrete piles, and 1.35km of underground plumbing were used in the build. Around 160,000 tiles were installed in the leisure pool, with just under 153,000 tiles used across the other indoor pools.
More than 50 timber beams and columns, each one up to 37m long, were used in the centre framework. These were milled in Austria, as there are no facilities in Australia capable of producing beams of this size.
Excavators removed 40,000m3 of soil during construction, helping backfill the former pools at the old aquatic centre site, ahead of more than 1000m2 of space being returned to the Park Lands.
Powered by 100 per cent certified renewable energy, the new centre is an accessible space for everyone and sets a new benchmark for recreational aquatic facilities nationally.
Experienced operator YMCA Aquatic will run the new Adelaide Aquatic Centre, as well as the SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre at Oaklands Park with reciprocal rights in place for both venues, for gym and swim.
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