Tender Award – EICS-21-45 Mountainside Pool Revitalization

Burlington
Environment, Infrastructure and Community Services.

EICS-15-21

Executive summary

The outdoor concrete pool at Mountainside was constructed in 1962 and has reached the end of its lifecycle.
The pool is forecasted to be closed September 2021 for a period of 1 year to construct a new pool, replace pool filtration systems and replace aged site services.
In consultation with the community during the design phases several amenities were added based on public feedback and discussion.
These additional amenities include:
- Providing a 50m lap area to expand the play all day experience to lap swimmers;
- Maintaining current amenities such as the splash pad and waterslide;
- Providing ample pool space and amenities for all age ranges and abilities;
- Meeting AODA requirements to provide barrier-free access;
- Adding a beach entry with spray features;
- Adding a rock-climbing wall; and
- Increasing the amount of shaded areas.
The lowest compliant bid is $1,000,000 more than was dedicated to this project in the capital budget.
Staff are recommending that the additional amount be funded using the 2021 Infrastructure Levy that was returned due to funding secured through the Safe Restart Agreement and a draw from the Corporate Accessibility Implementation capital project.

With the implementation of this project we are presented with an opportunity to reduce energy consumption and emissions at the Mountainside Pool facility.
In recent years the facility (excluding the arena) has had total annual operational emissions of approximately 52t CO₂e.
Natural Gas accounts for approximately 97% of these emissions and the remaining 3% for electricity use.
Since this project does not modify the existing pool house HVAC system or domestic water systems and focuses only on the operation of the pool itself, the project can affect 66% of the total site emissions (34t CO₂e). The two main sources of emissions for a pool’s operation are pool heating and water pumping.
To address these sources of emissions, we have included the following measures:
- Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) to reduce the speeds of all pool pumps;
- Higher efficiency boiler to reduce natural gas use;
- Heat Recovery on makeup water to the pool to reduce the amount of heat required from the boiler
Additional to the above equipment, a Building Automation System will be installed to control temperature setpoints, schedules and flow rates based on schedules.
By including the above measures into the scope of the project, the estimated reduction in emissions is 6.6t CO₂e per year, which is approximately a 13% reduction of the total facility emissions (p.6).