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IndustryNews APR 2011 SPN
5557 IN BRIEF £25M POOL TURNS ON THE LIGHTS
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SWIM PROJECT FOR THE DISABLED
A project that will give young people with physical, sensory or intellectual disabilities the chance to dream of
Paralympics’ swimming glory has been given the London 2012 seal of approval. Swim Links, led by the ASA, has been awarded the London 2012 Inspire mark, which recognises projects that have been inspired by the Olympics. The project will offer
youngsters who are identified at school as having ‘higher swimming ability’ the chance to improve through extra swimming sessions at 20 Swim Links projects at venues across England.
Those who continue to shine can then have their skills officially assessed by the governing body during an ASA County Athlete
Assessment Day to see if they are good enough to make a regional squad.
Sessions started in March and will run until July.
DEBT WRITE OFF WILL HELP POOL
A leisure centre with a top quality pool is set to be thrown a lifeline which would prevent it closing for good. Swindon Council is
considering writing off a debt of up to £610,000 owed to it by the Highworth Recreation Centre Trust.
Last year it was revealed the Highworth Rec – run by the trust – was £558,000 in debt and was under the threat of closure if a solution could not be found quickly. Swindon Council are also set to agree that it will subsidise the Highworth Rec by £105,000 per year, which will be in line with other recreation facilities that have swimming pools across the town.
Harlow Leisurezone, a new sports and leisure centre earmarked as an Olympic 2012 training centre has installed Sill Lighting to light the 25 metre swimming pool, training pool and spectator seating area. The scheme uses up lighting and down lighting to achieve efficiency and glare control.
Mounted on bespoke brackets either side of the swimming pool, are 20 back-to-back pairs of up lights and down lights. Sill’s projectors with 1,000W metal halide lamps, uplight the roof for illumination without veiling glare, while underneath, providing direct lighting are curved plane projectors with 400W metal halide lamps. Emergency lamps have also been fitted to half of the direct projectors so that the facilities remain lit in a power cut.
Both projectors have corrosion resistant die-cast aluminium housings with large heat dissipating
cooling fins. The reflectors are made of 99.98% pure aluminium, chemically polished and anodised with a UV filtering toughened safety glass sealed by a silicone gasket. Built as part of the £50m Harlow Gateway Project which is providing homes, leisure and lifestyle opportunities for residents of Harlow, the £25m leisure centre is
TRAINING COURSES ON POOL WATER TESTING FROM LOVIBOND TINTOMETER
Are your employees fully trained to perform water analysis correctly and precisely?
To make sure pool water testing is carried out correctly and with accurate results, it is essential that staff are trained appropriately – so who better to learn from than the suppliers of the reputable Lovibond® brand? Lovibond Tintometer, experts in water testing, are now running water testing training courses around the country throughout 2011. The courses, suitable for anyone involved in pool water testing, will include: taking the sample; good practice in testing; what we test for
and why; testing equipment and correct usage; an overview of balanced water and an on-hand, practical session where candidates can test samples of their own pool water. All successful candidates will receive a Lovibond® approved and signed Certificate of Completion. For a detailed agenda and list of dates and locations, call the team or email
sales@tintometer.com
i FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
F LOVIBOND TINTOMETER ( 01980 664800 :
www.lovibond.com
operated by Harlow and District Sports Trust, an independent and registered charitable trust with the objective to provide exceptional sport and leisure facilities.
i FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
F SILL LIGHTING UK ( 01844 260006 :
www.sill-uk.com
ASTRALPOOL OFFERS CUSTOMERS ACCESS TO FULL PRODUCT INFORMATION
AstralPool has launched a new online reference system for finding and downloading every product in its current catalogue. All products have a photograph, description and a table of logistic data. All kinds of documents, ranging from commercial catalogues to manuals and highly technical information about products, can also be downloaded. Accessing the database is done through the main website (
www.astralpool.com) and clicking on the PDB (Product DataBase) banner. The new website has a fresher image, it also has introduced significant changes and has made substantial improvements to user interactivity and usability. A new language is now included in addition to the ones already available (English and Spanish). All products in the PDB are now translated into French. By moving the mouse over the name of a product, a photo and a brief description of the product pops up. Another feature is the possibility of downloading all photos of products.
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