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Editor’sLetter FEB 2011 SPN
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costs out to the public more aggressively because the demand for information and help was so vast. There was a concern not enough was being done – even though high quality products to cut costs were available.
For local authorities and larger pools in Britain, already under pressure to cut operating costs, reducing heating costs is an uphill task. Too many pools were designed 25 or 30 years ago and heating and ventilation systems are typical of an era when energy was not a major issue. It was a ‘single pass’ system, taking in fresh air, heating and circulating it round.
t’s no surprise that over half of the new products ready and waiting at SPATEX next month have a common theme – the saving of energy.
The subject deserves an exhibition of its own. It’s sad but true but a swimming pool does have one drawback – its energy consumption, not just in the way it is built but in its ongoing maintenance. You may not be able to eliminate the costs of running a pool, but you sure as hell can minimise them.
How the industry deals with energy costs, green issues, its carbon footprints, however you want to describe it, will have a big effect on its future affluence.
In the United States the specialist swimming pool trade through its leading association admits it took too long to get to grips with energy saving issues in and around 2007 and what it calls the fear factor of maintaining a pool even in a warmer climate contributed to the dramatic collapse of confidence in new pool building. Throughout Europe it is a major theme. The biggest ‘sold out’ seminar at the Piscine exhibition in Lyon featured some of France’s leading energy experts giving advice to the trade about the urgency of getting products which cut operating
But for anyone who runs a pool large or small it’s a worry how much it is going to cost to keep it running. If you are thinking of investing in a pool it might but shouldn’t frighten you off. The answer lies in the quality of the products now on the market – and raising their profile. We know what great products the industry currently has. Pool covers which slash heating costs by between 50% and 70% reducing heat loss and evaporation. Two-speed energy-efficient pumps, heat exchangers, solar driven options, the list is formidable.
The full implications of Part L building regulations based on ‘conservation of fuel and power’ reflect the lead the Government will continue to have in this area. New innovative insulating pool building options will open up grants and interest free loans to pool constructions sympathetic to this new culture of power saving power.
The specialist industry rightly has worked harder on green issues providing more energy saving products knowing there’s an ongoing need to offer consumers more reassurance. Maybe it wasn’t such a crazy idea when at one recent SPATA regional seminar a delegate called for a swimming industry ‘energy czar’.
Alan Lewis – Editor
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