Sport is an important part of Australian culture and at CSC we recognise the role community and public sports facilities play in our health, well-being and general entertainment.
Karen Rolton Oval Pavilion (Park 25)
Client: South Australian Cricket Association (SACA)
An $8.25M community sports hub providing modern change rooms, club facilities, and expansive viewing decks across four ovals at Narnungga Park 25.
The Karen Rolton Oval Pavilion is a community sports hub located at Narnungga Park 25. The project provides facilities for all the different users of the ground with six new change rooms, player’s viewing areas, official’s rooms at the lower level and, on the second level, a club room which leads onto an expansive deck, offering great views across all four ovals. Material and service selections were carefully considered by the Design Team for efficiency and longevity and to minimise maintenance costs for the client. Timbers and other materials that would age gracefully were chosen and metal cladding systems designed as a set and forget solution.
The $8.25M sports facility was completed in 2018 and was achieved on time and budget with minimal disruption to both the cricket and football teams using the Oval.
Image courtesy of COX Architecture / SASI / ORSR / Adelaide University. Photography: Sam Noonan.
South Australian Sports Institute (SASI)
Client: Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT) | Office for Recreation | Sports and Racing (ORSR)
An $88M, 5-star Green Star elite sports facility at Mile End — delivering high-performance training, sports science education, and world-class athlete support infrastructure for South Australia's best.
The South Australian Sports Institute (SASI) is an $88m, 5-star Greenstar specialist sports facility located at Mile End which is used as a training base for the state’s elite Teams and includes:
Strength and conditioning gym, featuring a five-lane synthetic turf testing space (three lanes are 60m and two lanes are 40m) and anti-gravity treadmill.
Environmental chamber for athlete testing under a range of temperature, hypoxic and humidity conditions.
Full sized indoor sprung timber court and half court movement studio, designed for instant performance analysis under individual and team modes.
Ergometer training space, home to SASI rowing and canoe/kayak programs.
Physiology laboratory and athlete health rooms.
Athlete recovery centre, complete with athlete nutrition zone, hot and cold pools and dual saunas.
Biomechanics and exercise physiology laboratories fit allied health partners and students to learn about the role that forces play in movement and physiological responses to exercise and training.
The new SASI forms one of the country’s best high-performance sports precincts and is co-located with the Australian Centre for Sports Aerodynamics, Beach Volleyball National Training Centre, SA Athletics Stadium and SA Netball Centre.
Located on the second floor, the Sports Science Hub, which is the only facility of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere and only the second in the world, was created in partnership with Adelaide University. The Hub is designed to deliver industry-embedded specialist sports science education, greater research opportunities, and cutting-edge solutions for industry, so that all students have authentic learning experiences, scope to engage with leading industry staff and elite athletes, and a career-ready education.
Its state-of-the-art facilities feature:
A biomechanics lab with a VICON motion capture system and force plates that measure movement patterns and show how changes in force production can benefit athletic performance.
An environmental chamber that can simulate humidity, altitude (0 – 5000m above sea level) and temperature extremes (from -11 to 45°C) to track how the body the responds to different environments.
Exercise physiology teaching laboratories housing exercise testing equipment for physiology classes and work integrated learning (plus a BodPod for safely measuring body composition).
An exercise research lab for high performance, intensive exercise research.
An exercise teaching space, housing exercise and resistance training equipment, a 20-metre running track, and an impact wall to train students how to prescribe and deliver exercise training and testing.
Collaborative, flexible teaching spaces to accommodate large and small student groups.
CSC were engaged on behalf of the Department for Infrastructure and Transport to manage the financial delivery of the complex build which commenced with a significant re-calibration of the original budget allocation. The entire Project Team worked hand in hand to successfully deliver the facility which opened its doors in early 2025.
