DC Leisure has once again won the highly distinguished title âFacility Operator of the
Yearâ at the 2011 Kelloggâs ASA Swimtastic Awards, making it their seventh time scooping the top prize.
The companyâs continued commitment to the development of community wide swimming programmes and initiatives led to them winning gold, up against GLL and Everyone Active.
Commercial Swimming Pools
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.
The Manor House Hotel anticipates payback within a couple of seasons on a new multi-flume water leisure attraction added by the Loyal Grove team to the Devon hotelâs swimming pool complex.
Signature Products has completed the installation of a 12 x 5m
deck level, one-piece, pre-tiled pool along with four, deck overflow pre-tiled spas at the Nirvana Spa, the UKâs largest independent spa.
Set in 11 acres of Berkshire countryside, the new additions take the number of pools to eight with a further eight spas and plunge pools.
Leisure Industry Week strengthened its reputation as the leading meeting place for owners and operators of commercially based pool and wellness businesses with an upbeat show at Birminghamâs NEC last month.
One of seven zones under one common leisure banner, a vibrant Pool & Spa section generated a ripple of optimism with a positive buzz reporting healthy commercial sector order books well into 2012.
Leading Australian swimwear brand Zoggs has teamed up with Total Swimming, set up by Olympian Steve Parry, to run a series of events across the country providing up to 400 free spaces (at each event) for kids aged 7 to 14 years old to experience four different Olympic aquatic sports from diving and synchro to […]
EXACTLY one year ahead of London 2012 Games, the Aquatics Centre
is now complete, the last of the six main Olympic Park venues to
finish construction.
The Aquatics Centre was officially unveiled with British Olympic
hopeful Tom Daley making the first dive into the pool.
European suppliers are considering the ramifications of the recall of approximately one million swimming pool drain covers from at least eight manufacturers.
In a landmark move in June, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled the pool drain covers they say were incorrectly rated to handle the flow of water â posing a potential entrapment risk.
A Chelmsford Coronerâs Court jury has returned a verdict of accidental death from immersion on seven-year-old Michelle Gellard, found at the bottom of a swimming pool at Blackwater Leisure Centre in Essex. During the case, the court heard that half the recommended number of lifeguards were on duty at the time of the incident in […]
According to the Guinness Book Of World Records, San Alfonso del Mar, is the largest and deepest swimming pool in the world.
The focal point of a private resort located in Algarrobo, Chile, about 100km (60 miles) west of the capital Santiago, San Alfonsoâs
pool is 1,000m long.
