LEISURE & HOSPITALITY
IT’S JUST THE TICKET TO LOW MAINTENANCE RIDES
An office building can be a challenging enough environment to manage, but
imagine if your workplace was open seven days-a-week, covered a 42 acre site, welcomed thousands of visitors each year and involved maintenance of 41 rides. Kemper Systems’ latest client has to deal with just that.
The challenges facing the estates team at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, one of the UK’s busiest and most popular visitor attractions are vast. Founded in 1896, it was thrilling visitors with its rides and attractions long before Disneyland was so much as a twinkle in Walt Disney’s eye and, 120 years later, it’s still moving with the times to introduce new rides and make a significant contribution to the 13 million visitor numbers recorded by Blackpool last year.
The Pleasure Beach’s enduring popularity relies on high standards of maintenance across all the structures on the site including rides, amusements and food and drink outlets.
Amongst that ongoing maintenance schedule for the attraction’s estates
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team is the need to ensure that all roofs are in an excellent state of repair and this has led to two recent roof overlay schemes using Kemper System’s Kemperol V210 waterproofing membrane at the Valhalla and Alice in Wonderland rides. In an environment where visitors travel from miles around, carrying out the work with as little disruption as possible and without business interruption was vital, leading to specification of a cold- applied liquid system that requires no hot works and has a BBA-accredited service life of 25-years.
VALHALLA The first of the two roofing schemes
to be delivered by roofing contractor, Castle Roofing, was ‘Valhalla’, a Viking-themed indoor water ride,
opened in 2000 at a cost of £15 million. The ride is one of the most popular attractions at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, taking visitors on a journey through Norse mythology. While few visitors leave the ride without a soaking, they queue under a roofed area in front of the ride before they enter Valhalla, while they await a boat to take them inside. The queuing area is located next to an artificial rock face façade that features a ‘waterfall’ dispensing 12,000 gallons of water per minute. All that water falls onto the queuing area roof the constant water had led to failure of the existing waterproofing membrane, causing it to leak.
Tim Currey, Construction Manager at Blackpool Pleasure Beach explained: “The volume of water constantly
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