news 4 SPN AUG 2012 IndustryNews
HERITAGE TURNS TO DRÖM FOR LUXURY HOME INSTALLATION
Leading luxury housebuilder, Heritage has turned to steam and spa specialists Dröm UK to design, supply and install a bespoke sauna, steam room and steam showers for one of the company’s glamorous new homes on the exclusive St George’s Hill estate in Weybridge, Surrey.
The mansion stands in 1.3 acres of landscaped grounds and the 3,500sq ft entertainment complex on the lower ground floor includes a pool hall, cinema and gym. The original plan was to install a sanarium within this area but the client opted for separate sauna and steam rooms. In addition, steam showers were provided for the two en-suite bathrooms that open off the master bedroom suite.
Dröm UK was involved with the design and provided detailed proposals and product samples for Heritage to present to the client. The company then undertook the supply and installation of all the elements involved into the shell spaces created by Heritage. A Tylö EP100 circular mega sauna
heater ensures a perfect bathing environment and a touch screen control panel adds a chic finishing touch.
The steam room has large format tiles to the floor and walls which contrast with the sinuous curves of the glass and stone mosaic tiles employed for the benches and ceiling. The ceiling has a calming fibre optic colour change starry sky to create the perfect chromatherapy experience. As with the sauna, a fully programmable control panel ensures the ideal environment.
On the first floor, the two steam showers located within the sumptuous master suite have marble finishes to the walls, ceiling and floor. An efficient, 6VB steam generator and H1 touch screen control panel provides an unsurpassed intimate steam experience.
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FRANCE WINS THE CONTRACT TO CLEAN OLYMPIC POOLS
A French company has won the contract to clean the Olympic pools. The Hexagon-Mabis company based in Argenteuil has been in the pool cleaning contract and product business for 25 years.
Yoann Chouraqui, Director General of Hexagon-Mabis said: “We are really proud to have been selected to clean the pools during the 2012 London Olympics and also four other Olympic swimming pools in the city. We equip nearly six out of ten pools in France, or about 60% of
the market and our equipment has been recognised as being the most efficient and powerful of the marketplace.
“We offer a wide range of products to the pool industry in Europe – from a handheld vacuum cleaner for small swimming pools, to robotic cleaners with integrated timers for public swimming pools in sizes from 15/20m to the largest pools in the world – for instance, the pool in Melbourne, Australia, the third largest water surface in the world.”
HIGH PROFILE POOL CLOSURE A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME?
The closure of one of the south of England’s highest profile pools and a centre of excellence for swimming has been highlighted as as a cameo of what could happen to many more pools over the next five years as local authorities try to balance their budgets.
Southampton’s Oakland’s Swimming Pool in Lordshill has been told it has no future as the city council announced job losses as part of a ‘mini-budget’ setting out new spending plans for the city.
The council will shut the pool which has had a high profile as a regional centre of excellence for swimming so they can use a £230,000-a-year subsidy to fund other initiatives. Critics say it’s a decision that’s been taken without proper consideration.
The pool has been closed since May after a leak was found. A survey found the pool was structurally sound but needed repairs to the learner pool area. The council has unveiled its new spending priorities as it begins to tackle an estimated £46m budget deficit over the next two years to meet Government funding cuts. Tory leisure spokesman, John Hannides, said: “Oaklands has served the community very well over the
years and has become a much- valued community pool. To close it flies in the face of everything we should be doing in this Olympic year to encourage participation in swimming as a healthy activity”. Two years ago Tories handed over the management of the majority of council leisure facilities to a private operator to save the authority about £8m a year and bring new investment into the venues. Oaklands pool was not part of the
deal.
Sport England say they are monitoring the number of pools being hit by hard financial cutbacks. A spokesman told SPN: “I think the worst is still to come in terms of the tough financial decisions some local authorities have to take about their leisure facilities. They are a long way from being out of the woods. More closures are being announced and many of them are because councils just do not have the budget or resources to upgrade or renovate pools which have started to decline and age. It is a concern to the sporting health of the country as swimming pools are so important. It may be we will see more closures over the coming years as councils balance the need to provide quality services to ratepayers.”
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