Sport Facility Audits
In Nova Scotia the majority of recreation facility construction occurred in the period between 1965 to 1980. Although it is recognized that age alone is not a reliable indicator of infrastructure condition, many facilities are reaching or exceeding their predicted life. As a proactive measure to quantify the building conditions, since the mid nineties there had been several dozen Facility Audit Studies co-ordinated jointly by the operator entity and Nova Scotian Health Promotion, Physical Activity, Sport, and Recreation. These formed the basis for a summary review completed by C.J. MacLellan & Associates in October 2005 with the objective of extrapolating remediation tasks and current ten year budget requirements for the total provincial inventory of arenas, curling rinks, pools, and sports fields. The completed report is available at the website,http://www.gov.ns.ca/ohp/repPub/NSBuildingAuditSumaryReport.pdf
Based on the time gap for some of the reports and given that construction costs have generally outpaced the cost of living escalator index, the consultant recommended that k= 3% be the most probable budget figure to carry forth in planning a province wide rehabilitation of sport and recreation infrastructure.
TEN YEAR LIFE CYCLE COSTS (All Provincial Facilities)
| Category | # of facilities | Total cost estimate in 2005 dollars(M) k=2% | Total cost estimate in 2005 dollars(M) k=3% |
| Arenas | 77 | $ 56.06M | $ 59.38M |
| Curling Rinks | 36 | $ 8.58M | $ 8.95M |
| Indoor Pools | 25 | $ 12.94M | $ 13.80M |
| Outdoor Pools | 26 | $ 4.31M | $ 4.45M |
| Sports Fields | 314 | $ 5.50M | $ 6.00M |
| TOTAL FOR NOVA SCOTIA | $87.39M | $92.58M | |
The range of life cycle costs to update all predicted ten year priority items in the above noted Nova Scotia sport and recreation facilities is therefore estimated to be between $88M and $93M.