Steel creates Wiltshire leisure boost

More than 240t of structural steelwork is being installed to create a new leisure centre in the centre of Wiltshire’s county town of Trowbridge.

Accommodating modern, accessible facilities that promote health, wellbeing, and social interaction, the steel-framed centre is topped with two pitched roofs.

The roof design is said to be a nod to the town’s once thriving woollen cloth industry, and the warehouses and mills (a few of which remain) that once dominated the townscape.

Along the leisure centre’s western elevation, facing the County Hall, the building is topped by a 15-degree pitched roof, which forms the 22m-wide open-plan area for a six-lane, 25m swimming pool and learner pool. On the opposite side of the building, there is another, steeper 7m-wide pitched roof structure.

Separating the two feature roofs is an area of the building (accommodating changing rooms and the main entrance) with a flat roof. Taking advantage of the level surface and supporting the council’s target of being carbon neutral by 2030, solar panels, helping to power the all-electric building, will be installed on this area.

Working on behalf of main contractor Pellikaan Construction, Adstone Construction is fabricating, supplying and installing the steelwork.

The Trowbridge Leisure Centre is due to be complete by the end of 2026.