page_title: The Pods
section_title: Construction, funding and opening
hierarchical_section_title: The Pods / Construction, funding and opening
caption_attribution_description: English: Shows The Pods during its construction.
context_page_description: The Pods is a leisure centre in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England. The leisure centre offers a wide range of modern facilities, including two swimming pools, a state of the art gym, a dance studio, a café and a crèche. The leisure centre is located in the town's Central Park near Ashby Road.
  The Pods is reported to be built the highest environmental standards and is aiming for a ‘excellent' BREAAM environmental rating. It has grey water recycling, a bio-mass boiler, and the roof is part covered with the sedum plants. Hexagonal panels and panes of glass have been used to create the buildings dome shaped roofs, which is of a similar style to Cornwall's Eden Project. North Lincolnshire have provided a large pond and car park built next to the leisure centre.
  The park and children's play areas around The Pods have also been refurbished in a two million pound restoration, completed in January 2011. Around it there is a park and tennis courts.
context_section_description: Bowmer and Kirkland won the building contract and started the construction in October 2009, and as mentioned above; it is expected to be completed by Spring/Summer 2011. Plans to build the leisure centre were confirmed over two years before the actual start date of construction, but were delayed due to financial issues. Other than the council, the project has received funding from Sport England and The National Lottery.
  An accidental explosion in which several contractors working on the site were injured took place on the 17th of June 2011.
  The Pods was voted the most sustainable building/development of 2011 at the Property Industry Awards Yorkshire.
caption: An amateur photograph showing part of The Pods during construction, as seen in February.
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