DRAYTON VALLEY BRAZEAU AQUATIC CENTRE County also committed to $5 million each from their 2020 budgets. Add in some community sponsorships, and the new Drayton Valley Brazeau Aquatic Centre was finally a go. Annette says the new aquatic facility is a “key component” of the Town of Drayton Valley’s goals, which include “economic growth, building a sense of community, and building a sustainable future.” She says the Drayton Valley Brazeau Aquatic Centre will help tick all those boxes. “It will not only serve the people that we have here right now, it will attract people to the community. We know from employers that one of the things they look for when they are looking to set up in a community is amenities. They want to make sure their employees have things to do, and places to go.” “So it’s a place the community can enjoy, it’s a place to learn life-saving skills, and it’s also an economic driver,” she says. To deliver the project, the Town of Drayton Valley decided early on to pursue an IPD framework – a framework where all the project participants work together as one team, and accept and manage design and construction risks as a team. The framework was first recommended to the Town by a consultant they commissioned to conduct one of their early studies to determine if a new facility was feasible. That consultant explained the benefits of the IPD process, and how it had been proven to reduce the number of requests for information, change orders, delays, disputes and claims made. “As a municipal operation, if there’s one thing you don’t want to see, it’s a budget that goes all over the place,” Annette explains. “The IPD process gives you certainty. It gives you certainty in terms of the cost, and it gives you certainty in terms of when it’s going to be delivered to the community. Those are critical things for us, since we have to be accountable
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