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Marking the benches: Costs of recently built sports halls
	Project	Location	Area (m2)	Base date	Contract sum (£)	Actual cost/m2 (£)	Percentage change to accommodate inflation since built (%)	Percentage change to reach south-east England benchmark (%)	Current cost/m2 in south-east England (£)
1	School sports hall	Scarborough, North Yorkshire	2,286	Mar-94	250,000	334	53.94	19.78	615
2	College sports hall	Liverpool	8,839	Jan-99	1.4m	527	20.53	13.54	722
3	Gymnasium	St Albans, Herts	1,829	Feb-99	525,000	893	23.7	–3.54	1,066
4	High school sports hall	Greater Manchester	3,048	Jul-99	700,000	915	18.31	14.74	1,242
5	Sports and environment centre	Braintree, Essex	2,286	Oct-99	1.2m	1,270	19.75	0.93	1,535
6	School sports hall	Near Ashford, Kent	4,206	Jan-00	1.2m	743	18.72	–2.68	858
7	Sports pavilions*	Basildon, Essex	2,286	Jan-00	640,000	915	18.72	0.93	1,096
8	Secondary school sports hall	New Romney, Kent	7,010	Mar-00	2.3m	1,001	18.72	–2.68	1,157
9	Residential school sports hall	Merseyside	2,286	Jul-00	740,000	377	14.27	13.54	489
10	Sports hall	Greater Manchester	2,134	Sep-01	580,000	646	10.42	14.74	818
11	Sports hall	Widnes, Greater Manchester	2,804	Dec-01	780,000	775	9.84	14.74	977
12	Sports hall on college campus	North Yorkshire	4,267	Mar-03	1.1m	829	3.07	19.78	1,023
Average current cost/m2 of south-east England sports hall									967
Notes
1 Sports hall only. No changing or shower accommodation (provided elsewhere). Steel framed building with brick cladding.
2 Steel-framed sports hall with brick cladding to lower level, profiled metal cladding and curved aluminium roofing. Sports and changing accommodation on ground floor, bar and fitness suite on first floor.
3 Gymnasium. Steel frame, brick cladding, fair faced block internally. Wood flooring to hall. Showers, changing accommodation, and so on.
4 Steel-framed sports hall with two-storey ancillary accommodation. Brick cladding, profiled metal roofing.
5 Sports and leisure building, main hall plus display space for community use. Changing rooms to provide for people using outside football pitches. Includes energy saving measures, wind turbines, solar panels, and so on.
6 Steel-framed sports hall and changing block. Profiled metal wall and roof cladding over brick dado walls. Granwood flooring to hall. Includes changing accommodation.
7 New sports pavilion providing main hall, changing rooms and showers with ancillary areas, bar, and so on. Steel framed building with brick–block cladding and normal finishes and services installations.
8 Main sports block and changing accommodation. Some teaching accommodation. Facilities designed for dual school use and public community use.
9 Sports hall including lighting and heating, etc, but no changing or toilet facilities. Steel-framed building, brick and profiled metal cladding.
10 Steel-framed sports hall for secondary school. Brick cladding, below profiled metal wall and roof cladding. Includes changing accommodation.
11 Steel-framed sports hall with brick cladding, below profiled metal wall and roof cladding. Sports and changing accommodation only, excludes adaptations to existing buildings.
12 Four-court sports hall and changing rooms on college campus.

Cost of health and leisure facilities fit-out
Multidisciplinary practice Ridge has produced costs for the fit-out of private and public sector health and leisure facilities based on schemes it has worked on. The unit rate reflects current day figures of building and figures are based on a generic building and are exclusive of external works, loose equipment, professional fees and VAT.
Elements	Private health and fitness fit-out £/m2	Local authority refurbishment £/m2	Local authority new build including fit-out £/m2
Demolition/alteration works		70
Substructures		15	175
Superstructure	115	205	510
Internal finishes	150	95	125
Fittings	135	20	105
Services (including pool)	670	250	640
Preliminaries	85	100	235
Total	1,155	755	1,790