Among the challenges faced by the team during construction of the West Irving Aquatic Center, which includes a lap pool, waterslides, liesure pool and children’s wading pool, was extremely cold weather.
Although not known for ice and snow, Irving had more than its share of rain, snow and ice, causing 78 weather days on the project during the construction period. The wet weather made the soil too unstable to allow construction traffic back in the area, slowing the work restart. The cold caused delays for the pool piping, at times holding up the pool contractor for hours as the temperature warmed up enough for gluing.