Pymble Ladies’ College Aquatic Centre

Education, Sport + Aquatic Facility

Client: Pymble Ladies’ College
Project: Braith Williams Aquatic and Fitness Centre / Centenary Precinct
Location: Pymble, NSW
Architect: PMDL
Builder: ADCO
Haron Robson role: Electrical, lighting and active services advice / coordination
Project type: Education, aquatic, sport, fitness, community facility

Overview

The Pymble Ladies’ College Aquatic Centre is a major education and sporting facility developed as part of the College’s Centenary Precinct. The project replaced the former outdoor pool with a high-quality indoor aquatic and fitness environment designed to support school sport, training, learn-to-swim programmes, diving, community use and long-term campus operation.

The facility includes a 50 metre heated indoor eight-lane swimming pool, multiple diving platforms, a dive bubble, a large purpose-built learn-to-swim pool, change rooms, on-deck showers and fitness facilities. Pymble describes the centre as a state-of-the-art aquatic facility located within the College grounds.

Project significance

Aquatic centres are technically demanding buildings. They combine water, heat, humidity, corrosion risk, high public use, student safety, after-hours operation, specialist plant, lighting, controls and maintenance access within one integrated facility.

For Haron Robson, the value was not simply in designing individual systems, but in understanding how those systems needed to work together. Electrical infrastructure, lighting, communications, controls, security, AV, mechanical interfaces and pool plant support all needed to be coordinated to create a facility that was safe, robust, efficient and practical to operate.

Design and delivery team

The project was designed by PMDL and constructed by ADCO. Haron Robson’s own project reference also identifies PMDL as architect and ADCO as builder.

ADCO describes the project as a $40 million sporting facility incorporating an elite aquatic and fitness centre, an indoor Olympic-standard swimming pool, learn-to-swim pool, diving platforms, gymnasium, outdoor hockey fields and tennis courts over a two-level car park.

Facilities supported

The centre includes:

• 50 metre heated indoor eight-lane pool;
• multiple diving platforms and dive bubble;
• large purpose-built learn-to-swim pool;
• warm water and air conditions for younger swimmers;
• filtration and sanitisation systems;
• change rooms and on-deck showers;
• fitness and strength facilities;
• school, squad, club and community swimming use.

These facilities are confirmed by Pymble’s own swimming and facilities pages.

Haron Robson contribution

Haron Robson brought practical technical thinking to a complex campus project where services coordination, safety, reliability and long-term operation were essential.

Our work on projects of this type draws on our background in electrical, lighting and connected building systems. Aquatic facilities require more than compliance. They require careful coordination between design disciplines so that the completed building performs reliably for students, staff, operators and the wider community.

The project reflects Haron Robson’s broader strength: starting from specialist electrical and lighting expertise, then coordinating the active systems that make complex buildings work.

Why this project matters

The Pymble Ladies’ College Aquatic Centre demonstrates Haron Robson’s ability to contribute to highly coordinated education, sport and aquatic environments. These projects need careful judgement because technical decisions affect comfort, safety, maintenance, energy use, user experience and the long-term cost of operation.

The outcome is a facility that supports learning, training, competition, community use and daily operation within one integrated campus setting.

Hero image Large internal view of the 50 metre pool showing the lanes, ceiling, lighting and spectator areas.

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External view of the Aquatic and Fitness Centre showing the building form and campus setting.

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Pool deck or diving platform view showing the scale of the aquatic facility.

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Learn-to-swim pool or training environment showing the community and student-use aspect.

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Detail image of ceiling, lighting, structure or pool hall environment to support Haron Robson’s services coordination story.