The current wooden structure, which was built in 1986, no longer meets today’s requirements. Investigations showed that an expansion and simultaneous renovation would cause disproportionately high costs. The club writes this in a press release. Therefore, the inadequately insulated wooden structure is to be dismantled next year and replaced by a larger building.
The club management discussed the situation with the municipality of Balgach as early as summer 2022. With the local council’s approval of a building permit, the way was clear for an expansion. However, investigations by wood experts and an architect quickly showed that the association would have incurred disproportionately high costs in order to simultaneously expand the wooden structure and renovate the building shell
Two sticks, 450 square meters of training space
The club therefore started the new building project in 2023. The new training building should offer a significantly larger training area. 450 square meters of training space are planned for the two-story new building.
«The board considers the implementation next year to be ambitious but possible. The plans are ready for building submission to the municipality and the sponsorship concept is in place,” explains President
Roger Müller.
Construction costs not yet known
On the question of financing, he says: “What is positive is that through the Sport-verein-t label we can count on financial support from IG Sport SG for around a third of the costs.”
However, the support of IG Sport SG requires an exact cost estimate. This is in progress and will be available shortly. According to Müller, together with the reserved equity contribution and the members’ own contributions, around half of the construction costs are secured. The exact construction costs should be known by the beginning of December. The search for sponsors and inquiries to foundations and communities should then begin.
