News updates from the commercial swimming pools sector, including local authority pools, health club pools, hotel pools, school pools, holiday park pools and water parks.
In order to drive down CO2 output, the government is encouraging organisations, which includes almost all UK council groups, to develop energy management strategies.
Under the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, this involves monitoring energy usage and reporting annually, enabling the government to calculate CO2 emissions.
Watergate School, in the London Borough of Lewisham, is a priceless asset for children with severe learning difļ¬culties. The schoolās 90 pupils, aged between three and 11, include some with profound and multiple learning difļ¬culties and many wheelchair users. Watergateās hydrotherapy pool is particularly valuable for their development, using programmes developed by the NHS physiotherapists based at the school, who also run after school sessions for a baby and toddler groups and visits from another local special school. āAs you can appreciate the swimming pool is very important to our school and its pupils,ā says Watergate Schoolās Nick Frost.
Water parks have been a formidable entertainment industry in the United States and are an emerging water leisure force in the UK, as Jan Hurst reports…
It takes all but the most focused pool engineer to resist being lured by the scope and design of some water leisure project ā forgetting what lies beneath. As swimming pool designs become more and more elaborate, it is invariably the plant room that is the poor relation when it comes to adequate space not to mention access.
Fusion Lifestyle, in partnership with Lewisham Council, has opened the doors to Glass Mill Leisure Centre, a stunning new Ā£20m development.
Holiday park operators, health club venues and hotel leisure facilities are missing out on potentially huge savings on running their swimming pools, at a time when environmentally-friendly solutions has never been more affordable, warn Calorex Heat Pumps, the UKās leading water leisure energy efficiency specialists.
With names like Master Blaster, Lagoona Bay and Volcano Springs, the Cariba Creek water park at the Alton Towerās Splash Landings Hotel is still conjuring up as much aquatic excitement as it was when it first switched on the water features ten years ago. On the actual tenth birthday this month, the venue will be staging a suitably spectacular birthday celebration with pool side competitions, a steel band and lots of waterpark giveaways.
Butlinās has been a part of the British holiday scene for more than 70 years and its pools are a central feature of each resort. But what have they to offer the 21st century holidaymaker? Jan Hurst reportsā¦
Transforming the British holiday experience, the vision of Butlinās founder, Billy Butlinās, back in the 1930s, was to provide affordable, fun holidays for British families. The mission statement stays the same but todayās facilities, with multi-million water leisure investments are a world away from the chalet-style accommodation of the original Butlinsā camps.
Lidos have a special meaning for those of us of a certain age. They evoke childhood memories of style and glamour with outdoor swimming, ice creams by the pool and art deco buildings, often gleaming white. But the development of modern indoor pools saw a great number of these outdoor pleasure palaces disappear as they fell into disrepair and failed to compete with modern local sports facilities.
With names like Master Blaster, Lagoona Bay and Volcano Springs, the Cariba Creek water park at the Alton Towerās Splash Landings Hotel is still conjuring up as much aquatic excitement as it was when it first switched on the water features ten years ago.
