NEWS IN BRIEF
HEREFORDSHIRE POOL TO RECEIVE £2.3M MAKEOVER Halo Leisure, working with Herefordshire Council, has announced the £2.3m revamp of Ledbury Swimming Pool. The announcement follows £7.5m spent by the leisure group transforming facilities in Bromyard, Hereford, Leominster and Ross. Scott Rolfe, Chief Executive of Halo Leisure said the refurbishment of the facilities for the thousands of Ledbury residents who use the swimming pool had long been a priority for the leisure group.
NORTHERN IRELAND THERMAL SPA OPENS The Galgorm Resort & Spa in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, has opened a new Thermal Spa Village which complements the resort’s already extensive facilities. The Village features a wide range of riverside hot tubs, indoor and outdoor heated pools, steam rooms, sauna, sanarium, snow cabin and more. First opened in 2007, the resort’s facilities already included a hydrotherapy pool, outdoor hot tub and whirlpool, sauna, laconium and a variety of other facilities.
NEW BABY SWIMMING GUIDELINES LAUNCHED The ASA alongside baby and toddler swim school, Water Babies, and baby swimming product manufacturer Splash About International Ltd, recently launched new national guidelines to keep babies safe in swimming pools.
Published by the British Standards Institution, the Baby and Toddler Swimming Teaching Safety Guidelines will for the first time set industry-wide standards for swimming lessons and underwater photography practices. Launched at a Parliamentary reception in October, the guidelines provide best practice for swimming teachers and pool operators, and reassurance to parents that all aspects of their child’s swimming or photography session have been carefully considered.
www.swimmingpoolnews.co.uk £44m Consett Project Complete
Building work has been completed on the new state-of- the-art Consett Academy and Leisure Centre, part of the School Capital Projects programme in Durham and a £44m investment in the town.
Located in the heart of Consett on the site of the town’s former football ground, the two venues occupy a new single building providing a new shared resource for the local community. The new Leisure Centre replaces the neighbouring Belle Vue Leisure Centre and swimming pool and is an excellent example of partnership working to provide facilities for the community. Wet leisure facilities at the new centre include the largest pool provision in County Durham. FT Leisure was initially appointed as design consultants for the swimming pool elements of the project and was subsequently asked to supply, install and commission the swimming pool filtration, water features, flume and two moveable floor systems. The centre contains a 25-metre, 6-lane main pool with a moveable floor/ramp and a 20m x 8.5m training pool with a full moveable
floor. There is a separate water features splash zone and a GRP flume with GRP access staircase and aquacatch. The main contractor on the project was Carillion and the principal architect was Seymour Harris with William Saunders assisting on the wet leisure elements.
F T Leisure 0161 494 5785
www.ftleisure.co.uk
ISPE Seminar And AGM Sees New President Inaugurated
The Institute of Swimming Pool Engineers (ISPE) held their 111th one-day seminar on 20 October at the Watermill Hotel in Hemel Hempstead – an event which also combined their AGM plus the appointment of a new Institute President in John Cheek. The day consisted of comprehensive talks from Tony Carter of E J Bowman on the use of heat exchangers in the pool industry; Graham Kneale on specifying grilles and their effect on ventilation; Elizabeth Tetzner from solicitors Irwin Mitchell on legal implications of poor practice and Allen Wilson on Legionnaires’ microbiological testing. An open discussion was
New ISPE President John Cheek with Darren Bright (left) and Michael Coyle (right)
also held by John Cheek on the incorporation of two main drains in pool design, the challenges pool builders face and the dangers of entrapment. Outgoing President Allen
Wilson handed over the Chain of Office of the ISPE President to John Cheek who then conducted a brief AGM, congratulated a number of newly qualified ISPE Technicians and presented a number of ISPE awards. The awards recipients
Colin Day (left) is honoured with an fellowship from New ISPE President John Cheek
included Michael Coyle who was presented with the Gartside Cup for Student of the Year (read more on page 17 of this edition)
and Darren Bright who received the Jim Johnson Filtration Shield for completing the best filtration examination paper. A surprised Colin Day was also honoured with a fellowship of the Institute.
The Institute run a full seminar throughout the year and in addition to exhibiting at SPATEX 2016, will also be hosting a wide range of seminars at the Coventry based event.
ISPE 01603 499959
www.ispe.co.uk
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