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Fitness, Sports and Leisure Project Management

A gym that opens six weeks late has paid rent on an empty box and missed the sign-up window it was planned around. We work client-side for owners and operators, from site sourcing through to the day the doors open. One team holds the program, the budget and the approvals while you fill the membership list. 

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Your Trusted Sports and Fitness Project Managers

Sports project management, done client-side, puts one team on the owner's side across the whole facility program. For gyms, studios, indoor courts and sports facilities we handle site sourcing, feasibility, council approvals, procurement and tendering, then oversight of construction. Builders and surface specialists do the work. We keep it on your program. 

Project management in the sports industry runs to a calendar. Court surfaces have lead times, council approvals have queues, and a studio that misses its opening window can wait a full season for the next one. Most programs lose their date in the first six weeks, long before anyone on site notices, so the order of decisions matters here more than almost anywhere. 

You can hand us the whole program or one part of it, and some operators bring us in as fitness industry consultants to review a development process already under way. Lead times, committed spend and the critical path sit on a dashboard you can log into. If a court surface slips three weeks, you hear about it that week. 

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"Ayres Consulting provided outstanding project management throughout the build of Joy in Movement. Their team was professional, approachable, and highly organised from beginning to end. They made the entire process feel seamless, ensuring clear communication, attention to detail, and consistent support at every stage of the project."

"Ayres Consulting provided outstanding project management throughout the build of Joy in Movement. Their team was professional, approachable, and highly organised from beginning to end. They made the entire process feel seamless, ensuring clear communication, attention to detail, and consistent support at every stage of the project."

KATIE RICHMOND, JOY IN MOVEMENT

Recent Fitness, Sports and Leisure Projects

Court, studio and recovery projects for operators building networks, from a first franchise site to more than twenty centres. 

Protect your opening date before the program starts to slip

Book a free consultation to go through the sites, the lead times and the approvals between you and opening day. 

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The sports and leisure management projects we take on

A boutique studio, an indoor court facility and an aquatic centre have almost nothing in common on site. Surfaces, ventilation, lead times and approvals all behave differently, and knowing which one will move first is what protects an opening date. 

We offer our project management consulting services for: 

  • Boutique and franchise fitness studios 

  • Gyms and health clubs 

  • Indoor court facilities, including pickleball and padel 

  • Sports recovery centres 

  • Aquatic and leisure facilities 

  • Clubhouses, pavilions and community sporting facilities 

  • Multi-site rollouts, where the first site becomes the template for the next twenty 

The value in this sector is in repetition. Once a format works, the job is to build it again without rediscovering every problem. On House of Pickle that means several centres running at once under one delivery model, with the same procurement approach and the same reporting on each site. 

We work from the Gold Coast and Sydney with sports, fitness and leisure operators around the country. Operators who have tried sports consulting firms for the strategy usually come to us for the part that follows it: getting the next site found, approved and open. 

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between sports construction management and client-side project management?

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What does sports facility consulting cover before construction starts?

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Do you work with single studios, or only large facilities?

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Do you work across more than one state?

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Can you come in partway through a project?

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