With just two weeks until the first team arrives, the WFCU Centre is in for a major transformation.
Crews are already preparing to turn the main bowl arena into a 25m pool for the upcoming FINA World Swimming Championships.
Work will start right after the Windsor Spitfires home game against the Sarnia Sting.
"As soon as the game's over, we'll start the process of taking the ice out," says Infrastructure Project Manager Don Sadler. "We take the glass and boards down, bring in a levelling course of granular for underneath the pool. Once that's done, you put the pool base in, the pool walls up, put the liner in the pool and fill it full of water."
The first four or five rows of seating will also be removed to make way for the pool deck.
It's a lot of work to do in two weeks, and Sadler says the different contractors will have specific jobs to do by a particular time.
"It's basically minute by minute and hour by hour," says Sadler.
The entire job should be done by December 1.
Sadler has no doubt the facility is capable of hosting the event saying most cities that host the FINA World Swimming Championships, hold the event in arenas.
The championships start December 6.
