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payback on the investment in about three years. Maintaining a comfortable pool
environment requires the pool water and air to be held at approximately 27°C and 29°C respectively. Heating is normally carried out by heat exchangers linked to boilers using oil or gas as fuel. The
resultant pool water
cAlorex unit HAlves lonDon pool gAs bill
Gas consumption at Islington’s Cally Pool has been reduced by more than 47% following the installation of a Calorex heat recovery air handling unit. Figures from seven months of
operation over last winter for the north London pool compared to the same period from the previous winter show a Calorex HRD 30
Free swimming scheme is axed
The Government's free swimming programme has been scrapped due to the unprecedented financial situation. As part of £73m of cuts made by
the Government, the scheme, which offered free swimming to under 16s and over 60s will come to a close at the end of the summer amid claims new research shows it does not represent value for money. The scheme was launched in April
2009 and was heralded by then Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell as well as then Culture Secretary Andy Burnham as ‘a landmark moment in our bid to build a healthier and more active nation'. But just a week after new Sports
and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson outlined his plans to introduce a new London 2012 legacy plan – citing the need to do away with what he called 'six-month initiatives' – the scheme has been shelved. Read the full story online at the
SPN website.
unit, working in conjunction with new boilers, has
cut gas
consumption by 47% and electricity costs by 2%. In so doing carbon emissions have been cut by almost 40%. The savings were achieved despite a much colder winter than the previous year. Cost savings are estimated to be up to £6,000 per month – giving
evaporation into the building, containing most of the heat input in the form of latent energy, must be removed to maintain a pleasant pool environment and prevent damage to the pool building. In the case of Cally Pool, ventilation was carried out by a total loss system that simply extracted moist air from the building that was replaced by pre heated outside air. Today’s answer to this problem in
large commercial pools is the HRD heat pump dehumidifier,
a
completely automatic heat recovery and climate control unit. The HRD re-circulates the pool air,
removing from it the excess moisture content and reclaiming the latent and sensible heat it contains. A controlled
quantity of fresh air, which is also passed through heat recovery coils that can either heat or cool incoming outside air, is added continuously to maintain the pool air quality. Calorex Heat Pumps have
designed and manufactured heat pumps and dehumidifiers for the swimming pool industry for nearly 30 years and supply all sizes and types of unit to cater for the smallest private pool to the largest municipal leisure centre. “Given Government targets in
respect of carbon emissions and reduced running costs, and the massive savings in carbon emissions and running costs being experienced on this project, we took the earliest opportunity to install a Calorex heat recovery unit and we are delighted with the results,” said a representative of the contracting company that installed the equipment.
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NEW SOFTWARE TRIMS SWIMMING ADMIN TIME
Charitable leisure trust Tone Leisure has launched a revolutionary piece of software aimed at significantly reducing the amount of time leisure centres spend on swimming lesson
organisation and
administration. Tone, which currently operates
sports and leisure facilities on behalf of local authorities and is one of the only leisure trusts nationwide to provide
sports and
eliminating the need for follow up paperwork and manual reporting. CoursePro has been trialled at four
health
development services, teamed up with Somerset-based IT consultancy Cap2 Solutions to jointly develop the new CoursePro software, which is now ready to launch nationwide after successful regional trials. CoursePro is a first-of-its-kind that
application facilitates
administration, course coordination and customer interaction, meaning that everything from organising lessons to updating the progress of each child and producing detailed reports is handled within the system. Swimming instructors feed up-to- the-minute data into the system via iPod Touches whilst poolside,
of Tone’s centres in the south west and findings show that 70 staff hours per week in total have been freed up across the four locations since the system was put in place. As well as its time saving benefits, CoursePro also allows centres to move on to a continuous assessment scheme meaning that children can start and finish courses at any point, progressing through the levels at their own pace rather than having to fit in around set timetables as is typically the case. This extra convenience has proved very popular with parents, leading to an extra 400 children enrolling across the four centres since the software trials began. Parents can also log in remotely
to check their child’s progress and pay for new lessons online, eliminating long queues at the leisure centres. “At Tone we’re passionate about being industry innovators and it
became clear that organising and administering swimming lessons was an area that could be improved vastly with some inventive thinking,” said Joel Chapman, Commercial Director at Tone Leisure. CoursePro is available nationally on an annual licence system, the cost of which depends on the number of participants in the swim school. The licence fee covers technical support and software updates.
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www.toneleisure.com
amy Kershaw, one of Tone’s swim school co-ordinators and Leo
sydenham (four years old) making use of the poolside iPod touch.
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