news 4 SPN OCT 2011 IndustryNews
LAS VEGAS SHOW AIMS TO BOOST AMOUNT OF NEW POOL CONSTRUCTION
The world’s largest pool and spa exhibition in Las Vegas is hoping to play a part in turning round the trends in pool building in the United States. The International Pool, Spa and Patio Expo, being held from 30 October to 4 November, is to dedicate one of its high profile seminar days to the new pool building sector by helping pool construction companies to focus on business strategies to get more leads, win more bids and discover new ways to communicate with and market to your customers. Said Lindsay Johns from the trade association APSP; “Any swimming pool industry needs to be able to develop its new pool building programme. In the United States and elsewhere in the world, pool builders have survived on renovation and repairs and we are all grateful for that because it has kept many businesses alive during some very tough times. The long term solution however, is to get the number of new swimming pool constructions back to the levels of eight years ago. The initiative at Las Vegas is very welcome. This is exactly what a trade event should be doing.”
The event, still the world’s biggest
specialist show, is being held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. It traditionally has a strong hot tub profile and has developed a reputation for providing manufacturers with the chance of showing off new technologies and innovations for the following sales season. The list of new products launched in Las Vegas shows over 20 hot tub manufacturers launching new innovations, mainly in the area of energy conservation with a number introducing new models to their ranges.
Rebranded in 2008 as the International Pool Spa and Patio Expo, the show is made up of the former International Pool & Spa Expo, Backyard Living Expo and AQUA Shows. Over 500 exhibiting companies are expected to attract almost 10,000 visitors. The show highlights include 76 educational seminars, and a high profile for new 2012 products in the product showcase and a special energy efficiency and green pavilion.
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ONLINE SYSTEM SETS OUT TO HELP POOL OWNERS DEAL WITH TOXIC LEVELS
Environmental water treatment experts Dryden Aqua have set up a free on-line monitoring service to help pool owners comply with health and safety obligations.
The system is used to optimise the performance of a pool and help reduce costs. Pool owners can input pool results onto a secure server. The system checks if water quality is out of balance. The neurological programme developed by Dryden Aqua will also make recommendations.
Dr Howard Dryden from Dryden Aqua said: “It is not reasonable to expect pool operators to understand ‘work exposure levels’ toxic thresholds or to prepare detailed risk assessments relating to water treatment systems. “Neither should it be the responsibility of companies or manufacturers of equipment with a vested interest in the technology. “Dryden Aqua are no exception, we have a vested interest to promote our technology, however we also like to think that we have an ethical conscience and if we are aware of a problem or a potential hazard then we will not promote the technology and we will alert the industry.” Dryden Aqua manufactures UVc low pressure irradiation systems but has made a policy decision not to use UV for recycled water in swimming pools.
“Medium pressure UV is very effective for the dechloramination of swimming pool water; but by its very nature UV does not have any residual, so cannot be substituted for the use of chlorine. Chlorine will react with ammonium to form inorganic complexes such as monochloramine, dichloramine and trichloramine (nitrogen trichloride). Nitrogen trichloride is a volatile gas and will tend to come out of solution into the atmosphere to give pools their characteristic chlorine smell. Nitrogen trichloride is not absorbed by your skin, and when you breathe in
the gas, it will not enter your blood stream. However nitrogen trichloride is acidic, and an irritant with the potential to cause lung damage. France is the only country in Europe that has set limits for the concentration of nitrogen trichloride. “The UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) state it is the responsibility of the pool operator to prepare a Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) risk assessment, and if the gas is considered a risk, then a limit must be established.
Dryden Aqua in association with the Scottish Environmental Technology Network (SETN) is working on the water and air analytical techniques for cyanide in swimming pools. The data will be published over the next 12 months, but the results are of concern and we need to reduce the amount of chlorine used by swimming pools. “In the aquaculture industry the policy is to avoid any process or chemical that may cause a problem if an alternative solution is available. In the swimming pool industry the reverse appears to be true, the potential risks need to be quantified and analysed before a decision is reached. The problem is, it is just about impossible to quantify risks so decisions can never be concluded, for this reason it is very important to have standards such as the German DIN that provide a framework. Given the absence of standards in the UK, Dryden Aqua have developed PAWS (pool air & water standard) and an integrated water treatment system design in order to comply with it.”
The full Dryden Aqua report on the analysis on toxic levels can be found on the SPN website.
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