What rooms does a sports clubhouse or changeroom building need?

A sports clubhouse is a small building that serves a lot of different people. Two teams, the officials, spectators, juniors, seniors and the volunteers who run the club on game day all pass through it.

The rooms inside it follow from who uses it on that day.

Home and away changerooms

Two changerooms, one for each team, are the heart of the building. Separate rooms keep the teams apart before the game and give each one a place to change, shower and store gear.

At Parry Park in Lakemba, Monument's clubhouse changeroom upgrade created a more user-friendly home and away changeroom facility, with a compliant disabled access ramp and balustrading.

A room for the officials

Referees and umpires need their own space, away from both teams. It gives them a place to change and prepare without being drawn into either changeroom.

The Roberts Park Clubhouse at Greenacre, which Monument delivered for the City of Canterbury Bankstown, is a multi-use building with changerooms, referees rooms and amenities.

A medical room

Sport brings injuries. A medical room gives a player a private place to be assessed and treated, close to the field and with an easy way out to the car park.

At the Memorial Oval Cricket Ground in Bankstown, Monument carried out a complete internal strip-out and structural modification to meet Cricket Australia guidelines. The new layout has accessible bathrooms, home and away changerooms, and medical and referee rooms. The project is described in how a community changeroom is upgraded to meet Cricket Australia guidelines.

Toilets for players and the public

Players and spectators both need toilets, and on a busy weekend that is a lot of people. An accessible bathroom belongs in the brief, along with a clear accessible route from the car park and the field to the door.

The difference between the two main types of accessible facility is explained in accessible toilets and ambulant facilities.

The rooms that keep a club going

Depending on the club, the building can also need equipment storage, a kiosk and a room for meetings and functions. These spaces earn the club money and hold its members together, so they belong in the brief from the start instead of being squeezed in at the end.

New building or refurbishment

Monument builds community amenity and clubhouse buildings from earthworks through to fit-out, and it refurbishes existing council and institutional amenities in a sequence that fits inside operating hours. Its council work in this area also includes the Beaman Park amenities at Earlwood.

Changerooms are wet, heavily used rooms, and the materials, drainage and fixtures decide how well they last. That is covered in what makes amenities buildings difficult to build well.

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