The multi-award winning team at Rio Pools is the latest company to test the waters of Dryden Aqua’s Integrated System, reporting outstanding results. Rio Pools have been so impressed with the DA-GEN, DAISY+ system that they now plan to specify it as standard practice on all future projects. The Rio Pools team was asked to […]
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The UK’s first ever public swimming pond is celebrating its first anniversary, having welcomed more than 20,000 bathers since it opened last year. The King’s Cross Pond Club provides a unique and all-natural swimming experience in the heart of London. Designed by architects Ooze and artist Marjetica Potrč, the pond is entirely chemical-free, purified through […]
A reflection of Britain’s golden age of swimming, historic swimming pools offer us a unique glimpse into our nation’s sporting history, when swimming was the ultimate pastime. Today a high proportion of the country’s ‘forgotten’ baths are in a fragile state. The boom in public swimming took off in the early 1900’s and by the […]
Three decades on from its inception, Pool Water Treatment Advisory Group (PWTAG) is making some important organisational changes. The election of Janice Calvert as Chair and Ralph Riley as Vice Chair at the recent AGM signalled a new emphasis on boosting membership and increasing the independent organisation’s influence in the pool sector. One key to […]
A set of four specialist Calorex heat pumps are efficiently maintaining optimum water temperatures at a new waterpark in Poland. The water attraction, which opened in Ruda Slaska last summer, features a 312m² swimming pool and an 840m² recreational pool, which are both heated by Calorex Pro-Pac heat pumps. In fact, it is estimated that […]
Berndorf Bäderbau, Europe’s premier stainless steel pool manufacturer is working with London Swimming Pool Company (LSPC) to launch its Classic Modular range of stainless steel pools in London and the Home Counties. Stainless steel pools are increasing in popularity among private and commercial clients and the introduction of the Classic range means LSPC now offers […]
Plastipack, a world-leading manufacturer of specialist covering materials for swimming pools, has invested in a new state-of-the-art research facility at its East Sussex headquarters. A world first, the unique test facility comprises five outdoor 8m x 4m x 1.2m swimming pools located side by side. This allows Plastipack to accurately measure and compare the performance […]
Much like kids in a sweetshop, today’s swimming pool installers are spoilt for choice when it comes to pool tiling and mosaics. This competitive sector now offers the pool industry the biggest and best choice of products ever available. In terms of both colour and materials, there is now an abundance of options on the […]
Work has begun on the rebuild of Erdington Leisure Centre in Birmingham – the first of three centres across the city to be replaced by Birmingham Community Leisure Trust (BCLT). The £8m development at Erdington will feature a 25m swimming pool, a teaching pool and is part of a £40m investment to improve leisure and […]
A new community-driven campaign to breathe new life into Peckham Lido has been given a £10,000 boost by Southwark Council. The Peckham Lido, to the north of Peckham Rye, fell into disrepair in the 1980s and was largely demolished, but the new campaign has captured the community’s imagination with plans to build a 50m swimming […]
