Luxury Living

Aqua Platinum designed and built a luxurious high-end swimming pool and wellness complex for use by residents within a 350-block retirement home in Wiltshire. The intricate scheme includes a stunning indoor swimming pool with two infi nity edge corners to ensure the bathers can take in the dramatic views adjacent to the full-length glass. The […]

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Interbad Marks Its 50th Anniversary In Style

Interbad returned to Messe Stuttgart in September, marking the 50th anniversary of the international trade fair. 14,000 visitors from 72 countries visited the four-day exhibition, which brought together professionals from across all areas of water leisure. Organised by the German Association for the Recreational and Medicinal Bath Industry, Interbad 2016 welcomed 437 exhibitors in an […]

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Lyon Delivers An Outstanding Showcase

With a vibrant mix of international swimming pool, spa and wellness exhibitors in attendance, Piscine Global Europe once again proved itself to be the biggest and the best exhibition for the world’s combined water leisure sectors. Every two years the extensive trade show enables professional visitors from the pool and spa sectors to meet with […]

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Star, Spangled Banners In New Orleans

The International Pool | Spa | Patio returned to New Orleans, Louisiana, at the Ernest N. Memorial Convention Center for the first time since 2012, this autumn. The show, which normally attracts over 10,000 and over 500 companies did not disappoint. The Association of Pool & Spa Professionals (APSP) offered a variety of advanced educational […]

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Hand-In-Glove Collaboration Pays Off

A barn style, detached pool house in Oxfordshire gave Origin Leisure and Heatstar yet another opportunity to combine their strengths and work together on a prestigious project. The brief was to create an independent leisure barn as part of a unique residential property being developed on the site of old rural out buildings by property […]

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Simply The Best

The UK’s combined water leisure industry was praised by Olympian Sharron Davies MBE, as the industry rolled out the red carpet for the 2016 UK Pool & Spa Awards. The popular sports personality and TV presenter was the guest speaker at the awards ceremony which returned to the prestigious Vox conference centre part of the […]

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Thermal Blankets

From a modest back garden pool to an Olympic-proportioned swimming zone, not covering a pool when it is not in use, is equal to pouring liquid gold down the main swimming pool drain. In today’s energy efficient times – an unforgiveable sin. Covers not only reduce evaporation, but they also offer additional safety, reduce chemical […]

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Save Even More On Pool Running Costs

Heatstar’s energy efficient pedigree is delivered by the use of a combination of technologies designed to work together to create a super-efficient system which uses less energy to give Heatstar units the lowest running costs on the market. One of the most important elements is Heatstar’s use of EC Fan Technology. Heatstar pioneered the use […]

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Ā£25m Leisure Centre Open For Business

A new Ā£25m state-of-the-art leisure centre in Bridlington was officially opened by a trio of sporting celebrities earlier this summer.Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington OBE; badminton player Gail Emms MBE and footballer Dean Windass cut the ribbon on East Riding Leisure Bridlington, which has already attracted more than 50,000 visitors since it opened at the end […]

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Salt Chlorinators Gain Momentum

While an estimated 90% of all Australian residential pools and half of new domestic pools in France and North America favour salt water chlorination, take up by the British market is finally showing some progress. Salt chlorination has taken a huge leap since it was first introduced to the market in the late Seventies, and […]

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