Games go swimmingly after refurb with Ronafix screed
Competitors at the 2014 Commonwealth Games are reaping the benefits of a major refurbishment at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow.
The project, funded by Glasgow City Council (£13.15 million) and sportscotland (£650,000), comprised adding a new 50 metre six-lane warm-up and training pool to the existing ten-lane 50 metre pool, along with new fitness suites, an extension of the changing rooms, improvements to the café, further seating and a general refurbishment of the existing facilities.
The new centre now being seen by millions of television viewers around the world was opened last year and will be used for further major international swimming competitions after the Games, as well as providing an excellent permanent recreational and sporting facility for local residents.
As part of the redevelopment, the City of Glasgow Department of Architecture specified that the main contractors for the development, Barr Construction, should apply Ronafix Mix A to the stairways at the venue, to provide a hard wearing, dust proof, waterproof surface that could be laid in thin section. The screed was installed by sub contractor Industrial Floor Treatments.
Ronafix Mix A is also available pre-packed as Ronafix Pre-packed Screed 6-50mm. It has high compressive, tensile and flexural strength and can be trafficked after 24 hours; design compressive strength is 38N/mm² in 24 hours and 70N/mm² after 28 days when cured at 20 degree C.
Ronafix Pre-packed Screed 6-50mm comes from the Ronacrete Ronafix range of specialist quality controlled pre-mixed products. These include pre-packed products for tanking swimming pools and basements, for waterproofing structures, for under floor heating screeds and high-strength, thin and fast drying screeds.
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