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SPN OCT 2012 IndustryNews
www.swimmingpoolnews.co.uk
INTERBAD TO PUT SPECIAL FOCUS ON FAST GROWING SAUNA MARKET
The future of the sauna market in terms of trends, technology and wider marketing appeal will be one of the themes highlighted at interbad 2012, held at the Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre from 9 to 12 October.
Sauna experts from all over Europe will meet alongside the
German Sauna Association to investigate what many wet leisure specialists believe is one area which has huge potential for growth in the home as well as commercial market. “For decades saunas have been one of the three pillars on which interbad, the international industry meeting-point, is based,” said Rolf- Andreas Pieper, Managing Director of the Bielefeld-based German Sauna Association. “This year the topic of saunas will be presented in an even more international way as we plan to put the future and current potential of the sauna market under the spotlight in one of the world’s most extensive programmes. This is an area with huge growth potential and can play a key role in how the pool and spa industries in Europe offer the public real wellness benefits.”
The public sauna industry in Germany acts as a role model for a large number of countries with an interest in saunas.
After the record number of
exhibitors in 2010, there are already indications that the biennial trade fair will again be successful. The organisers, Messe Stuttgart and the German Association for the Recreational and Medicinal Bath Industry, are expecting just under 500 exhibitors and more than 16,000 trade visitors.
A special ‘corporate health’ area will be seen at Stuttgart for the first time aimed at managers of hotels, thermal spas and baths and pools and physiotherapists. The idea is to reveal how pool , spa and wet leisure companies can benefit from offering services to people under pressure to perform in their job , often suffering psychological stress and burnouts which cost companies a great deal of money.
Natural pools also get a special section at the show.
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AUSSIE AWARDS LEAD THE WAY WITH ENVIRONMENTAL SUCCESS STORIES traditional concrete construction.
Some of the most innovative and impressive practical examples of environment friendly products and systems were highlighted at the 2012 SPLASH awards In Australia. The awards reflect the growing belief that Australia is one of the countries leading the way in providing a better eco friendly platform for the pool and spa industry.
The awards, run by Australian specialist magazine and exhibition company SPLASH, are the only ones in the world dedicated to environment-friendly design and construction in the swimming pool and spa industry. The high profile award winners included Noble Park Aquatic Centre, a Melbourne refurbishment featuring a co-generation unit that provides heat and power for the centre, while 30 solar panels provide hot water for the pool. The filtration systems includes air-scouring – saving 25% of backwash water – while the old pool shell was converted into a massive 700,000 litre rainwater storage system, supplying water for the centre and landscaping. In the commercial pool categories award winner Burleigh Pools is a
Queensland communal pool project which maintained existing elements of the property including a Morton Bay Fig, while converting the old milk shed into toilet, change and shower facilities, and using an extended roofline to gather rainwater. Use of cartridge filters, ionisation, ultrasonics and solar heating also boosted its environmental credentials. Another commercial award went to South Australian Aquatic and Leisure Centre, an Adelaide project which features a sophisticated perlite filtration system which uses dramatically less water than traditional filtration, while energy use is minimised through variable speed pumps. Additionally, the stainless steel construction contains less embedded energy than
The top product award which was won by Davey for the Powermaster Eco – an eight-star brushless- DC three-speed pump is also economically priced, which means it can make a greater impact on the market by encouraging consumers to purchase energy-efficient pool equipment.
The top residential outdoor pool award went to Majestic Pools part of an environmental home and garden project in Brisbane called the Enviro Cottage. The judges were impressed with backwash filtration, oversized filters, ozonation, an eight-star rated pool pump, and the use of a heat pump to warm the water. Additional measures were taken to reduce evaporation and splash-loss, and top-up is via rainwater collection.
PWTAG WANTS VIEWS ON A NEW CODE OF PRACTICE
The Pool Water Treatment Advisory Group wants to hear from interested parties about its plans for an industry-wide code of practice on swimming pool water management. After almost a year of work, the group has produced a consultation draft code of practice based on its guidelines, Swimming Pool Water: treatment and quality standards for pools and spas. The code also incorporates developments since the book was published in 2009 – some of these are already online as technical notes on the website. The book was the basis for a BSI code of practice for some years. Since this lapsed, the industry has lacked an authoritative basis, a prescription, for design, practice – and for training.
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