The Ein Kerem Pool is part of the fifth water line to Jerusalem enterprise.

The facility includes the establishment of the Ein Kerem Pool in a yard that is shared with the Ein Kerem Station.

The Ein Kerem Pool will be a reinforced pre-stressed concrete pool with a prefabricated roof and a capacity of 30,000 cubic meters.

In order to have an appearance that integrates with the environment, an additional roof will be constructed above the roof of the pool.

Insulating layers will be laid on this roof, in order to prevent penetration of water and to provide protection against roots, above a light concrete (Betkal) layer with a variable height. Gardening earth will be placed above the upper layer, to a depth of up to 2 meters in order for plants to grow.

The upper roof for the pool is planned to be made of concrete, mostly from prefabricated concrete, resting on the pool’s walls and pillars, and on a surrounding supporting wall at the top of the cliff.

The covering of the area with beds, upon which concrete and asphalt will be poured, works to arrange the area, landscape restoration, electrical and command works and etcetera, will be performed within another framework.

The performance of the works at the facility:

• Excavation for the base of the pool, for the surface around the pool and for pipes
• The establishment of a pool with a capacity of 30,000 cubic meters, a diameter of 62 meters and with a variable height of approximately 11.5 meters, which will include:

• A peripheral foundation from reinforced pre-stressed concrete and foundations for freestanding columns, casting against the rock face.
• Peripheral concrete walls with horizontal stressing.
• Freestanding round pillars including capitals on which the roof-bearing walls for the pool will rest.
• A concrete floor resting on ground rock.
• Weight-bearing walls from concrete. Some of them are site cast and some of them are from prefabricated concrete.
• The roof of the pool: pre-stessed sheets, which are laid on the walls of the pool and the load bearing walls, including the completion of the on-site casting by topping on the roof.
• Pipe work and accessories.
• Steel/ artisan) frame work.
• Insulation of the floor of the pool.

• The upper roof of the pool is comprised of 2 parts:
  1. The part that is parallel to the roof of the pool with a height of +15.10 and which is composed primarily of pre-stressed sheets which are laid on the walls of the pool and the load bearing walls, including the completion of the casting.
  2. The sloping part, with a height of +15.10 to +10.10 will be built from the ceiling in a sloping arch with casting on-site.
• The levelling of the area around the pool, including strengthening the subsoil under the beds 
• Filling in with gardener’s soil on the upper roof of the pool 

The landscaping works were performed within the framework of a separate tender.