Bam Construction is set to transform Graves leisure centre in Sheffield under a £16 million building contract with Sheffield City Council.

In what is the biggest investment in leisure facilities in the city in the last 20 years, two new state-of-the-art leisure venues are now under construction both at Graves and also at Thorncliffe in High Green.

Councillor Julie Dore, Leader of Sheffield City Council, said: “After construction began on the North Active leisure centre in High Green last week, I am very pleased to see that work is now beginning on this even bigger project in the south of the city.

“Both of these exciting developments will not just be traditional sports centres, but will bring swimming pools, gyms, sports facilities and health services together.

“It is especially pleasing that, in this time of austerity, our partnership working with organisations such as Sport England, the NCSEM, the Lawn Tennis Association and British Gymnastics is enabling Sheffield City Council to drive these important developments forward and invest in the health of our future generations.”

BAM senior design manager Noel Banfield said: “We are very much looking forward to beginning on this important project, which will contribute to health and wellbeing in Sheffield and beyond.

“Building and testing swimming pools in particular is very technical and complex, so we are delighted to be bringing across much of the management and wider team from the Huddersfield scheme. This will bring huge efficiency benefits to the project to extend these facilities.”