NAS North Island - Fitness Center

The newly constructed Naval Air Station North Island Fitness Center provides Navy personnel with an 89,502 square foot fitness center, a 3,746 square foot Olympic size pool, and a 16,673 square foot single sailor center. The new facility provides basketball and volleyball courts with spectator seating, racquetball courts, artificial turf softball, football, and soccer fields. The fitness center also includes multiple specialized exercise classrooms and locker rooms. The new fitness center increases the number of programs available to sailors including artificial turf softball, football, and soccer fields, a handicap accessible 50-meter lap pool, and an increased amount of traditional exercise equipment.

The facility incorporates many energy saving initiatives such as maximizing the use of daylight throughout the building, high insulated windows and wall systems, solar pool and domestic water heaters, and a 337 kW photovoltaic panel array.

NAVFAC Southwest awarded RQ Construction a $43.9 million contract to construct the fitness center on Aug. 7, 2012. Drake Integrations served as the Mechanical Quality Control specialist working closely with the design team and contractors to ensure satisfactory implementation of the mechanical systems including chilled water, heating hot water, air handling and plumbing systems.