WHISTLER, BC – Canadian Sport Institute Pacific (CSI Pacific) is proud and excited to announce our brand new High Performance Centre Outdoor Fitness Expansion at the Whistler Athletes’ Centre. This project has been completed in partnership with Whistler Sport Legacies.
The outdoor surface expansion project that utilizes rubber from recycled BC Tires was completed in July 2020 and is ready for use.
This project will provide Canada’s elite athletes and coaches that train with CSI Pacific in Whistler with additional space for daily training and sport development. This additional space and new surface will allow CSI Pacific to help Canada’s athletes continue to achieve global success at the Olympics and Paralympics, now and in the future.
In early 2020, CSI Pacific broke ground on the construction of the expansion project located adjacent to the gym facility at the Whistler Athletes’ Centre. After months disrupted work due to COVID-19, construction has finally completed. CSI Pacific is excited for this new expansion as it will allow for more training opportunities for organization as well as for the public.
This project uses rubber from BC recycled tires to make an environmentally friendly and sustainable surface. Marathon Surfaces, the supplier of the rubber materials, is a 14mm, provided Spurtan BV which is a 14mm, two-layer sandwich style polyurethane track system. The base layer consists of a black mat of SBR rubber granules, bound in polyurethane, with a thin seal coat. The surface layer is a fluid applied polyurethane topcoat with a dense matrix of broadcast EPDM rubber granules.
Our new Outdoor Fitness Expansion was completed using 12,400 lbs of British Columbia rubber from recycled tires. This environmentally friendly surface material was chosen due the fact that it allowed us to incorporate sustainable materials into the project.
CSI Pacific would like to thank our funding partners for supporting us throughout this project: Tire Stewardship BC and Real Estate Association of Whistler.
Tire Stewardship BC is a not-for-profit society that manages BC’s tire recycling program. They support projects that utilize recycling as a way to protect the environment.
Real Estate Association of Whistler is the most comprehensive resource of real estate listings in Whistler and Pemberton and are proud to support community & grassroots projects in the Sea-To-Sky corridor.
About Marathon Surfaces
Marathon Surfaces is a full service supplier and installer of surfaces ranging from rubber running tracks and PIP recycled rubber surfacing for playgrounds to tennis and multipurpose courts, and synthetic turf. Marathon is committed to providing environmentally responsible surfacing choices using recycled rubber from local suppliers. The best quality materials are used and proven installation techniques, resulting in surfaces that perform and enhance any facility.
About Tire Stewardship BC
Tire Stewardship BC, a not for profit society, formed to accept responsibility for the provincial scrap tire recycling program, and on January 01 2007 TSBC launched the new scrap tire recycling program replacing the government-run program that had been in place since 1991.
About Real Estate Association of Whistler
WLS is a privately owned and operated Listing System that has been specifically designed to serve the needs of our customers. As the most current and comprehensive database of properties listed for sale in Whistler, Pemberton and the Sea to Sky region, for buyers the WLS and WhistlerListings.com website provides a convenient and easy-to-use online tool to search the area’s unique real estate offerings. For sellers, a listing on the WLS is an opportunity for exposure to a worldwide audience.
About Canadian Sport Institute Pacific: Powering Performance. Inspiring Excellence.
Offering world-class Olympic and Paralympic training environments in Vancouver, Whistler and Victoria, Canadian Sport Institute Pacific (www.csipacific.ca) is committed to Powering Performance. Inspiring Excellence. Working with national sport organizations and fuelled by our national and provincial partners such as Sport Canada, viaSport, Own the Podium, Canadian Olympic Committee, Canadian Paralympic Committee and the Coaches Association of Canada, we are driven by our mantra to Collaborate. Serve. Innovate.
Our team of sport science, sport medicine, coaching & life services experts provide leading-edge programs and services to athletes and coaches to ensure they have every advantage to win medals for Canada.
For more info contact:
Noah Wheelock
General Manager, Operations & Communications
Canadian Sport Institute Pacific
250.220.2534
250.813.3474
nwheelock@csipacific.ca