Images of the Hydrotherapy Pool & Spa

Hydrotherapy pool with massage jets

Hydrotherapy pool with Jacuzzi

Spa centre meet and greet area

Chromatherapy relaxation room

One of the seven treatment rooms

Grove Spa Resort Blog Update 19th October 2010

We are delighted to have taken possession of Plot A of The Grove Spa Resort from GCC. It has been a challenging year for everyone involved, given the seismic changes in world economic conditions but we are proud to have delivered a top class scheme.  It is looking really excellent now the outside work has been finished and the pools have been filled.

View of Blocks B and G from the poolside

We have had a busy programme of handovers to clients and this continues throughout October and November. The feedback is very positive and clients have been enjoying the serenity and views from the resort when staying overnight.

During the day the site is a hive of activity with contractors finishing the last details, clients taking possession of properties, furniture deliveries and utility companies doing the final sign-off checks.

Plot A from the Spa building

One of the giant Jacuzzis in action

One of the pool technicians demonstrated today how the pool water, which is cleaned without chlorine using an environmentally-friendly process,  is cleaner than the municipal tap water and can safely be drunk.

Pools on Plot A

The decking and gardens on Plot B

View of Plot A from Block H

Work continues on Plot B (comprising Blocks C, D, E and F) to the end of the month when all private apartments will be ready, all external communal works completed and GCC hand over this plot.  Work will continue on the Spa building, shop, restaurant, green area and roads to the end of the year.

Planting begins on Plot B

Spa reception building

Installation of the decking around the pool in front of C-Block

One of the townhouses in D-Block is now fully furnished and provides a cool retreat from the heat and dust of the building site.   

Townhouse

Master Bedroom

Second Bedroom

 

Monthly Progress Meeting 9th March 2010

The long run of wet weather has finally broken and spring has arrived with consistent sunshine and daily temperatures in the low 20s but warming up fast. However, sandstorms in Egypt caused murky conditions and reduced visibility across the island. There’s never a dull moment with Cyprus weather in the spring.

Main entrance of the reception building

Now the basement has dried out and the forecast is fair, work began on laying out the electrical installations on the floor of the Spa building. Claire Chrysostomou, the interior architect, supervised the work personally, ensuring close attention to detail. Installations also continued in the ground floor gym, the first floor dance studio and in the roof-top café bar.

Claire & Christos check the plans for the electrical installations at the Spa

Laying the electrical cables

Floor layout in the Spa

Electromechanical installations in the dance studio

The beginnings of the cold plunge pool

Inside the gym space

The LED lighting above the feature ceiling has been installed in the apartments providing a subtle level of mood lighting. Having checked all the electrical switches in the sample apartments we have changed many of these for either ergonomic or aesthetic reasons and those changes will now be rolled out across the rest of the development. We have also installed key card controllers which makes managing energy bills much easier for clients renting out apartments on short-term lets.

Mood lighting in the living room

Key card energy controller

The bathrooms in the sample apartments are now all but completed

Bathroom in C-block in beige tiles

Bathroom in Townhouse in light grey tiles

En-Suite Shower Room in Townhouse

En-Suite Shower Room in Townhouse

Delivery of the residential units is still on track but the Spa building is currently showing an over-run due to the bad weather. But we remain confident of catching up this time for a November opening. Most of the work on the site is now internal. All joinery work (kitchens, internal doors and wardrobes) is progressing well with 1 block being finished every 2 weeks. Then follows the installation of the granite worktops, splash-backs and additional tiling. Fitting of the windows also continues with 1 block per week being handed over from the aluminium supplier.

B-block kitchen in Ash

Kitchen in White

Kitchen sink

D-block under stairs wardrobes in White

A & B Blocks from the western side

Children’s pool between Blocks E & D with supermarket in background

Main pool between Blocks B & G

Blocks D, C, E & F

Temporary access to H Block

Externally, the site boundary walls at the back of C and D-blocks have been completed and work on the outdoor pools will begin shortly.

Pouring concrete for the boundary walls

Giorgos & Lellos pouring concrete

Sewage treatment plants

As the village of Mazotos is not yet connected to the sewage mains, we are constructing two sewage treatment plants on site which will function until we are connected to the mains, currently scheduled for 5 years time.

Most of you know Jemma Watchman from the Liverpool office and she visited the site to fully familiarise herself with each client’s apartment ahead of the handover process that will begin on construction completion from August. Dominic was also on site and again remarked on the speed and quality of the delivery from GCC.

Jemma orientates herself onsite

Dominic and Nicos Zachariou enjoy the somewhat misty view from A block

Constantinos Constanti (the architect) and Tatiana Zachariou (the clerk of works)

Work will cease on site for a week from 31st March to 7th April to celebrate Greek Orthodox Easter which is slightly extended this year with an extra bank holiday on 1st April. The next site meeting will be 4th May.

We wish all our clients, consultants, contractors and suppliers a very Happy Easter!

Monthly Progress Meeting 9th February 2010

The wettest January for many years saw 146% of the usual rainfall for the month falling on the island, continuing the rainy trend of the last 3 months and causing some further delays to the construction programme.

A very green view from A-block Feb 2010

Road frontage with restaurant, shops & E-block

The programme for completion of the Spa and reception building is now delayed by 10 weeks due to the prolonged flooding of the basement area. We are confident however that we will catch up this time once the weather dries up and the building is sealed with windows and doors to allow the internal floor fit out to begin, although the electro-mechanical work on the ceiling has continued.

Spa electromechanical installations

Work on the sample apartments continued with the installation of the doors and windows and the finishing of the carpentry work for the kitchens, wardrobes and internal doors as well as the tiling in the bathrooms.

Apartment entrance door	C-Block bedroom windows

The marble stairs have been installed in the sample town house in a dark grey to complement the light grey tiling of the floors. A different colour will be used for those houses with cream tile work.

Marble stairs in town house

The spirit level was much in evidence as the tiling was laid on the private verandas and the back-breaking plastering work continued on C-block.

Laying the veranda tiles of C block	C-block external plastering

The work on installing the sewage treatment plant started with digging a very big hole...

One big hole!

The shops are now at first floor level, ie full height and it's possible to see the skeleton of the whole resort.

Roof of Supermarket

View of E-block and children's pool from D-block

Outside, the railings for the walkways and balconies are being installed and the stonework around the pillars has started to be affixed.

Balcony railings

We are testing a pallette of earthen and natural stone colours for the Graffiato coating that will be applied to all external walls.

Stonework and Graffiato colours

Stonework

We finalised the materials and colour choices for the external walkways, sitting and poolside areas and have added some points of interest in hidden corners including a giant chess & draughts board and large planters with colour and textural variety.

Jon is working with the landscape designer Christoforos Moniatis to flesh out options for each private garden and Joanne will be contacting you shortly to discuss your choices if you have a ground floor property.

Constantinos the Architect (L) and Christoforos the Landscape Designer (R)

The furniture suppliers have also been on site this week measuring up to ensure that the furniture fits perfectly. We will have a great range of options available including some fabulous outdoor furniture to make the most of the huge penthouse roof terraces. We will be sending out the furniture pack information at the end of March for ordering by May.

Jon the man behind the lens	Jonathan & Stephanie at site entrance

Buddy the Brittany attended the site regularly in his role as honorary site supervisor.

Buddy surveying the site

The next progress meeting is on Tuesday 9th March.