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NAME THAT POOL People living in Luton are being given the opportunity to name the town’s new £26m sports and aquatics centre, currently under construction and due for completion in 2012. On completion, the facility will provide an Olympic-size 50m swimming pool, diving centre and sports hall. It will be run on behalf of Luton Borough Council by Active Luton.


Chief Executive Helen Barnett said: “The centre is much more than a swimming pool, and we want the community to come up with a name that accurately reflects how important it is to the community.”


REDCAR JOB CREATOR A new £31m leisure facility in Redcar, in the North East, is expected to create 260 jobs. Featuring a swimming pool, and leisure pool complex – as well as facilities for the community and local businesses – the centre should be completed in December 2012.


YOUNGSTERS ASPIRE TO OWN A POOL


Over half of children in the UK plan to have a swimming pool in their home when they grow up, according to new research by Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks. A total of 59% of the children asked about their future hopes and aspirations said that a swimming pool features well towards the top of the list of their ideal lifestyle ambitions. And 19% are planning to own their dream home by the age of 25, despite the fact that 33% of children estimate that their dream home will cost them between £500,000 and £1m.


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GOLDEN COAST AND TYLÖ – CELEBRATE A ‘SPECIAL’ LASTING PARTNERSHIP


What began in a wooden shed in Halmstad, Sweden in 1950 when, at the age of 22, Sven-Olof Janson started a company called AB El-spiraler, spinning coils for electrical elements, has reached a significant milestone. That same company, better known as Tylö, ione of the most prestigious names in the sauna and steam room industry, is now celebrating its 60th anniversary. Yachts, cruise ships, luxury apartments, boutique hotels and health and golf clubs are some of the bespoke projects incorporating Tylö products, many pioneered by the company’s UK distributor Golden Coast, which this year celebrates a 30-year association with the Swedish manufacturer.


In recognition of the part played in the success of the company, Tylö has bestowed the distinction of ‘Certified Distributor’ on a select few ‘partner’ companies, including Golden Coast for the UK.


David Adams, founder of Golden Coast, came across the company at a SPATEX show when his company was solely building swimming pools. Adams saw an opportunity to develop the untapped UK market for sauna and steam. As a result he approached Tylö, becoming the south west agent, one of eight UK agents. In the early 1980’s Adams and Brian Patterson of BOS Leisure, the agent responsible for Wales and the west, joined forces to form ‘Swedish Saunas’. With nationwide exclusivity,


Tylö’s ‘Asia’ sauna, complete with sealed sliding doors, mood lighting and music


RIGHT: Cascades’ the apartment building fronting the River Thames where the completely refurbished gym and swimming pool includes a double-aspect bespoke unisex sauna


the new company became ‘Tylö UK’, responsible for promoting and marketing the brand throughout the country.


“From the very start the product’s quality was, and remains, its greatest attribute and it sells itself,” added David. The ability to ‘think outside the box’ and adapt Tylö products to meet project design demands comes naturally to Golden Coast and its dealers.


Tylö’s Swedish team of designers has always pushed the boundaries of design with striking concepts to create a futuristic oval ‘space capsule’ sauna and ‘Asia’ sauna, complete with sealed sliding doors, mood lighting and music coupled with the soothing sound of an interior water feature. Golden Coast also pushes the boundaries, continuing to expand its nationwide dealership network and year-on-year sales, with the brand


becoming synonymous with quality and the ‘must have’ name for sauna and steam suites.


Today 40ft containers regularly arrive at the company’s Barnstaple warehouse, the loads being parcelled out for the various projects in hand, with onwards delivery by Golden Coast’s own transport fleet supplying the respective dealers around the country.


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POOL COVER STANDARDS UNDER CONTROL OF US TRADE ASSOCIATION


One of the top trade associations in the US has been given the authority to govern how drain covers must be produced to comply with the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act. The move is being seen as a serious boost for the specialist trade. From early September, the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals took over the standard which controls the technical specifications of the covers. As of 6 September, an APSP standard will take over for the long- standing ASTM language naming the


parameters a drain cover must meet to comply with the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act. The US federal pool and spa safety law has laid out that all commercial pools must have suction outlet covers adhering to ASME A112.19.8 or a successor standard. These drain- cover requirements took on even more significance earlier this year when a nationwide recall of drain covers involved eight manufacturers. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers said it no longer wanted to spearhead the standard. To fill the gap,


the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals made a bid to take over the standard’s development and began work on a new standard for suction fittings for use in swimming pools, wading pools, spas and hot tubs. For drain-cover producers, the change does not amount to substantive changes but puts the APSP closer to the demands of the industry and its ability while the Virginia Graeme Act operates. For the APSP, this means seeing one of its standards become part of US federal law for the first time.


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