The new Harry Jerome Community Recreation Centre will be home to a wide variety of new and improved recreational, cultural and green spaces. Highlights include a multi-use arena with a 500-spectator seating capacity, an aquatic centre, indoor and outdoor fitness amenities, a new skate park, community kitchen, dedicated preschool and youth spaces and a new Silver Harbour Seniors’ Activity Centre.
Sustainability
The new centre will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the previous centre, with an energy savings of 53% from the National Energy Code for Buildings 2017 baseline. How the centre plans to reach our sustainability goals includes:
- Maximizing heat recovery through C02 refrigeration
- A highly insulated building envelope
- Maximizing rain-water re-use on site
- Extensive natural daylight and passive solar strategies
- Innovative low-energy pool filtration system
- Electric vehicle parking
- 209 trees planted as part of the overall landscape design
Accessibility
Driven by the City’s vision of A Healthy City for All and guided by the City’s Community Recreation Strategy, the new centre is expertly designed with users of all accessibility needs in mind. The centre will foster flexibility and access by:
- Pursuing the gold standard in the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification program, which considers people of differing levels of physical mobility, as well as addresses gender and cultural sensitivities
- Accessible designated parking spaces
- The pools will provide a range of access types including beach entry, ramp entry, transfer edge and lift, including ramps into the leisure pool and family hot pool
- Intermittent and dispersed seating in lobby, corridors and viewing areas
- Accessible washrooms, showers and change rooms
- A variety of accessible fitness equipment to accommodate users with a variety of mobility needs
View of the Inside and Exterior of the New HJCRC (Video Animation)