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SPN JUN 2011 IndustryNews
www.swimmingpoolnews.co.uk
CANCER RESEARCH ATTACKS CHLORINE SCARE AS ‘POOR REPORTING’
HIPPO BRINGS COLOUR AND FUN TO THE NORTH EAST!
Hippo Leisure has put new life and colour into the poolside at Concordia Leisure Centre, in Cramlington in Northumberland. The winning design from Hippo, which was championed by Colin Winfield, the centre’s Leisure Facilities Manager, was innovative, functional and had the best kids appeal!. Hippo remained true to the brief by combining low and high level features with bright, vibrant colours to create water action in two main areas. With over 45 active water points, Hippo’s Waterball is positioned on the poolside, linked to a large splash bucket by a 3m span arm housing fish showers, tipping buckets and a resident pelican providing themed water fun. Meanwhile, hand wheels on the Waterball control the direction of the water squirts and create the water supply to the unique polyurethane moulded, Fill N Spill buckets ready to be hand tipped and the water released. The second area replaces an old planter between the main leisure pool and the children’s pool, creating the perfect platform for a toddler play area.
Interconnecting playful fish squirts with cascading water channels allow the children to twist and turn the paddles to control the water flow from the channels into the pool. A high level water arch provides more action over the pool itself with tipping bucket and water wheel combinations.
The surface directly surrounding the play equipment has been finished with an Aquatrol safety surface providing a non-slip, impact absorbing surface for the ultimate in safe wet play.
“I am very pleased with what we have achieved in such a short space of time and initial feedback from our customers provides proof we have invested well as 90% have commented that the refurbishment is fantastic.
“The features help brighten and liven up the pool and poolside and have contributed to making the overdue revamp of the pool area a great success,” said Colin.
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MULTIMEDIA POOL EXPERIENCE
Aquatic Dreamworlds has won an international award for a new product which turns swimming pools into a multimedia experience. The swimming pool becomes part of an artistic installation. Painted illusions complement animated, three-dimensional underwater landscapes to suggest great depth and vastness in the swimming pool. Murals of scenery extend the illusion above the water. The award was given by Schwimmbad & Sauna the pool & spa magazine for groundbreaking innovation in the area of pool and spa technology.
The swimming pool industry has been quick to promote and support a report by Cancer Research UK which rejected a national newspaper claim that swimming too much in chlorinated water could case bladder cancer. Cancer Research UK says the Daily Mail report was: “An example of poor reporting, which makes unwarranted claims about human health. The research itself says nothing new about bladder cancer, and didn’t even involve people with the disease”. The story was based on research carried out by a Spanish team investigating the possible effects of man-made chemicals on cancer rates. The researchers tried to find out whether people from different social classes and backgrounds might have different levels of exposure. The findings were published in the journal Environmental Health. The paper described how researchers reanalysed data from a study in 1998 to 2001 when 1,271 people without bladder cancer were interviewed about a variety of their habits and behaviour to compare them to people with bladder cancer as a ‘control’ group.
The study looked at the information recorded about these subjects; in
particular whether they had said they drank tap or bottled water, how often they said they showered, and how often they remembered going to the swimming pool.
The most highly educated subjects were less exposed to chlorination by- products through ingestion, but more exposed through contact and inhalation in pools and showers/baths. Health risk perceptions and economic capacity may affect patterns of water consumption that can result in differences in exposure to water contaminants.
The results didn’t say anything about at difference in bladder cancer risk between the different social groups; it merely proposed that different people behave differently with respect to how they use water. Several studies and organisations have looked at whether substances we add to water to stop bacteria growing in it might be inadvertently harming us. It’s fair to say that there’s some evidence of a possible risk, but there are other studies that don’t show an effect.
By far the biggest risk factor for bladder cancer – as for so many types of cancer – is tobacco, which causes about two thirds of cases.
TYLÖ CREATES A FURTHER ‘IMPRESSION’
Continuing the evolution of its Impression ‘Home Spa’ range, Swedish sauna and steam room manufacturer Tylö has refined the details of the control panel and overhead shower in its steam-shower range.
The old control panel has been replaced with the new stylish electronic ‘h1’ touch-screen panel, allowing bathers to pre-set the maximum temperature and lighting level within the unit, as well as showing the real- time steam room temperature and in- operation time mode.
Integral to the dual-purpose shower-steam column, the control panel operates all functions of the in-built steam generator that feeds a discreet steam outlet.
At the same time the previous overhead shower has been replaced with a new larger ceiling-mounted shower head, fed by a thermostatically
controlled mixer tap, which also feeds a separate hand shower.
These latest changes have been incorporated throughout the i110/c, i130, i170 and ix210s steam-shower models. All Tylö products are available from Golden Coast.
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