Millennium Place Recreational Centre, Strathcona County, Alberta

"We're very pleased with the way this project has come together"… "it was a tight schedule from day one and we demanded a lot from the team - and they delivered," said Dick Polowaniuk, Project Manager for Strathcona County. This project was constructed on time and on budget, being completed in only 17 months with a construction cost of only $103 per square foot.

This facility has most of the major amenities required to make a municipal swimming pool a success; wave generation, an elaborate interactive water play feature, sauna, steam room, and much more.

The pool area décor reproduces scenes from Cooking Lake using giant murals of sailboats, trains, and ungulates (mammals with hooves). Fixtures in the pool are both visually pleasing and functional. The floatplane with its 18-foot wingspan has working lights that signal the start of the wave generation. The water feature has been custom designed to resemble a tractor and includes interactive play features. The clouds suspended over the pool hall are actually acoustic panels.

Careful consideration to design detail and user needs has ensured that Millennium Place Recreation Centre is indeed a recreation facility with something for everyone and will remain a much used and much loved facility well into the new millennium.