Site Progress Meeting 8th September 2010

Plot A

The apartments on Plot A, ie those in Blocks A, B, G and H are now finished and fully snagged internally. We are waiting for delivery of the last pieces of expansion joint materials to enable the rest of the communal external area to be completed.

The site was due for handover by the construction company on 1st September but due to a few items still to finish off externally, as well as waiting for the electricity authority to finish the testing and commissioning of the electricity supply to each apartment, we will now take possession of the site on 5th October. Delivery of Plot B (comprising Blocks C, D, E and F) will be on 20th October. This new handover timetable does not affect the delivery of the apartments which are finished and undergoing final snagging ahead of the delivery to clients between 15th September and 15th November.

Kitchen of Block D Townhouse

In the communal external spaces, the Gripstone areas are almost completed and the wooden decking around the pools has begun to be installed.

Installing the wooden decking

All garden areas have now been planted and the artificial grass installed between Blocks A, H, G and B which gives a cool, calm feeling to the resort.

View from ground floor apartment in B block

View of resort from upper floor of Block H	View of Block B

The utility companies have finished the installation of water and electricity connections around the development so the road construction is now underway. With so much messy work going on around the edges of the resort to complete the roads and pathways we are delaying filling the pools until the end of the month.

Laying out the visitor car park next to Block G	Finishing the main car park of the Spa building

We spent time this week with potential operators of the restaurant and supermarket and also continued with the interviews for resort staff. The Spa building continues to shape up well.

Spa building reception

Roof top café bar	View from the gym

Sound proofed ceiling of the dance studio	Dominic and Joanne in the TV room

View of plot B from Spa building

Back of Block H

The underground car parks are finished as are the ramps in and out. The fire shutters will be installed next and the individual car park space markings.

Underground car park entrance	Underground car park exit

Underground car park

The next site meeting will take place on Tuesday 5th October.

Site pictures 28th May 2010

Through the round window to B & G block

G Block across the pool

From A001 to B Block

Rear of C Block

Rear of B Block

C & D blocks with skylights to hydrotherapy centre

View from the front of the Gym

Laying the coping stones in the children's Pool

Secure car park and private storage rooms under the site

Preparing the installation of the back windows in the gym

Claire Chrysostomou discusses Spa interior plans

Spa Reception Area

First floor dance studio

Top floor open air café bar

Jacuzzi in the hydrotherapy pool

Hydrotherapy pool

B Block Roof Terrace

Installation of the pergolas on B Block roof terraces

Kitchen of townhouse

Townhouse living room

Monthly Progress Meeting 8th December 2009

The unseasonal weather continued in Cyprus in early December with more than 10 days of electrical storms and torrential rain. Although great for topping up the island's dams, the deluges have caused damage to roads, properties and beaches across the island. Konnos Bay, a particularly beautiful beach at Cape Greco in the south east of the island suffered a landslide and the beach has effectively been washed away. The authorities are working hard to restore this and other beaches for the summer season.

Flooded swimming pools

B-block

F-block

The extremely heavy rain has slowed down some of the external work at The Grove Spa Resort site due to flooding although much of the progress is now indoors. The ceramics for the floors and walls of the sample apartments have arrived and are now being laid. On the blocks where construction is completed the solar panels and water tanks are being installed.

H-block

The basement slab between Blocks D & E has now been closed up and the basement finished. The new children's pool has been laid out in front of D-block and blocks A & H have completed the skeleton and brickwork.

Townhouses & childrens' pool

The electro-mechanical work is now underway in the Spa building and we're ready to start the screeds for the floors and the dry walling to divide up the space into the treatment and changing rooms and communal space. Work continued with Claire Chrysostomou, the interior architect, on the specifications for the internal fit-out of the Spa, gym and reception.

Grove Spa Building

Gym & reception space

Site overview with block C & Spa building in foreground

G-block

Construction will stop over for 10 days over the festive season and resume again in January. There is no official progress meeting in January but I will be there during the month to report as usual.