NEWS Helping To Breathe New Life Into Old Pools
Swimming pools can and should continue to be a source of income long after installation, according to Golden Coast. To help its customers profit from this often overlooked market, the company is offering installers the opportunity to benefit from a free, customised brochure that illustrates the way that customers can improve the look, feel and maintenance of their pool.
Entitled ‘Ideas and inspiration for improving your pool’, the glossy, full-colour brochure highlights the ways that pools can be more eco-friendly and energy efficient. Golden Coast’s latest market tool has been developed to help pool suppliers take full advantage of the upselling opportunities available.
The brochure can be branded – free of charge – with the supplier’s own logo – immediately equipping businesses with professional-looking, customer-facing literature specifically developed to encourage customers to upgrade.
“Over the years, we’ve learned that any pool can be improved,” says Golden Coast’s Managing Director Jamie Adams. “For installers, the need to replace worn or inefficient equipment – together with owners’ desires to enhance their experience through additional or better features – means that pools can continue to be a potential source of income long after installation.
“Customers are demanding greener
and lea ner technologies, so the latest brochure inspires them with products that will reduce their carbon footprint… and the associated running costs. “For our industry, this means that it should be easy to sell things like DEL automatic pool covers, MultiCyclone pre- filter units, solar heating, DURA heat pumps and Spectravision LED lighting… as long as pool owners know about them,” explains Jamie. The supplier-customised brochure also suggests retrofit ideas which save time
and effort on pool maintenance, as well as some which simply add extra fun.
This initiative is one of many ways in which Golden Coast has been working to support its trade customers’ business and support the wet leisure industry in recent years.
“Our success is only wholly dependent on our customers’ success, so we always go the extra mile for our customers – doing everything we can to drive sales and help them grow their businesses,” says Jamie.
Golden Coast 01271 378100
www.GCTrade.co.uk.
Calorex Cuts Energy Costs At Wolverton Pool
The new Wolverton Swimming & Fitness Centre in Milton Keynes is the latest commercial leisure venue to benefit from
energy cost savings and reduced CO2 emissions, thanks to the installation of a bespoke Calorex heat recovery system. Operated by Wolverton Leisure Trust, the centre welcomes just under half a million visitors per year, boasts a 25m six-lane swimming pool, a learner pool with water features and other facilities.
During the initial design process, Calorex Heat Pumps were approached to come up with a heat recovery solution that would not only maintain water and air conditions within the pool hall in an energy efficient manner, but run on a ‘set and forget’ basis. A modified HRD heat pump heat recovery dehumidifier was specified by Calorex, tailored to fulfil the requirements of the brief. The unit features a bespoke PLC controller, inverter controlled fans and high tech air pollutant monitors that regulate fresh air demands.
The high-tech Calorex HRD system is designed to simultaneously monitor and control humidity, air quality and air and water temperatures, all within a self-contained packaged air handling unit. Unlike most swimming pool air handling units the Calorex HRD will recover both the latent heat lost by the pool due to evaporation as well as the sensible energy in the pool hall air and route all of this energy back to either the pool water or pool hall air as required. As an additional
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benefit the HRD is able to reverse its heat recovery process, whilst maintaining heat recovery to the pool water, and therefore provide sensible pool hall air cooling when temperature set points are exceeded.
By converting latent energy into sensible heat through its unique thermodynamic circuitry the Calorex HRD will provide efficiencies of 300-350%. Compared to traditional heat and vent systems , cost savings of over 60% are not unheard of and corresponding CO2
A Calorex HRD unit is
playing a vital energy saving role at the new Wolverton
Swimming & Fitness Centre in Milton Keynes
emissions can be
dramatically reduced by up to 70%. Airflow is controlled by the units purpose programmed PLC software that keeps an optimum balance between fresh and recirculated air streams to satisfy occupancy and dilution demands. The software has also been programmed to control the fans so that the pool hall is always under a slight negative pressure that ensures moist air cannot migrate to other rooms within the building or into the fabric of the pool hall. The HRD unit at Wolverton is controlled by a bespoke building management system
(BMS), that monitors and controls the comfort levels within the pool hall and environmental performance of the whole system. Wolverton’s Centre Manager Matt Leeder commented: “The system does exactly what it says on the tin and the ease of the ‘set and forget’ control of the heating and dehumidification is essential for the efficient operation of the leisure centre facility.”
Calorex Heat Pumps 01621 856611
www.calorex.com
www.swimmingpoolnews.co.uk
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