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THETHE INSTITUTEINSTITUTE OFOF SWIMMINGSWIMMING POOL ENGINEERS JuneApril 2010 2018 Vol. 2129 No. 12
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Here’s Emma helping to build a pool in central London.
There’s a lot that goes into a pool. It might have a Duratech heat pump, Triogen UV water treatment and LED lighting. Perhaps a couple of short neck skimmers and all the pipe and fittings.
But before any of that gets built into the pool it has to get delivered to the job.
And this means that Emma, our Office Manager, and her team have to get the right documents attached to it, from order number to delivery note to invoice.
We know that you take pride in the work that you do and you’ll be glad to know that Emma does too. It’s safe to say that when you’re building a pool, she’s a good person to have on your team.
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President Editorial 3 Editorial 3 JOHN CHEEK Remembering Trevor Baylis 4 Remembering Trevor Baylis 4 Vice-President A record breaking year A record breaking year COLIN DAY for SPATEX 2018 6 for SPATEX 2018 6 The ISPE Filtration Workshop 8 Honorary Treasurer The ISPE Filtration Workshop 8 IAN BETTS Company Celebration - AsherCompany Swimpool Celebration Centre - 13 Company Secretary Asher Swimpool Centre 13 CHRIS CARR Introducing... 14
Introducing... 14 Wilson’s Wanderings 19 Elected Members of the Council Wilson’s Wanderings 19 PHILIP BARLOW The Olympian Way 24 The Olympian Way 24 HOWARD GOSLING ISPE Member Profile - Ron Stempfer 28 COLIN JENKINSON ISPE Member Profile - Odds and Ends 31 JOHN SCOTT Ron Stempfer 28 MALCOLM SHARP New Members and Students & Odds and Ends 31 MIKE SHUFF What is it? 32
BEN STUDDY New Members and Students & ALLEN WILSON What is it? 32
Co-opted Members of the Council BOB JUDD GRAHAM KNEALE JIMMY LAMB
General Secretary ROSS ALCOCK The Hive, 2nd Floor, Old Central Library Victoria Avenue - SS2 6EX SOUTHEND The Institute of Swimming Pool ENGLAND Engineers Limited, P.O. Box 3083, Tel. : 01622 83 28 00 Norwich, Fax. : 01622 83 18 80 Norfolk NR6 7YL E-mail : [email protected] Tel: 01603 499 959 www.ispe.co.uk procopi.com email: [email protected]
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NOTICE TO ALL READERS Articles and advice in the ISPE Magazine are for guidance only. Further professional advice should always be sought before acting upon, or refraining from acting upon, a course of action. Health & Safety is of paramount importance and the correct PPE (personal protective equipment) should always be utilised before undertaking any job. If in doubt, ASK!
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We are grateful to Delyse Borley width of 2.75m, increasing to 3.65m from Tanby Swimming Pools for at the step end. supplying the excellent cover picture for this issue and the Equipment used included: description below. 2 x 650mm PPG Deepbed for DA- Gen Daisy+ system with a 1.5hp This subterranean pool is set PPG variable speed; 4 levels down in a basement in a Certikin stainless steel pool fittings; busy street in Mayfair with awkward Heatstar Phoenix EC 1000 via a access, and was part of a huge gas fired boiler; new rebuild of a mews property. Ocea automatic slatted pool cover; The entire length of the pool has a Fluvo C2G Rondo Countercurrent. quartz stone wall from ceiling to pool floor adding a touch of interest and warmth to the plain colour scheme. The stand out feature of a unique bronze statue diving into the pool adds the wow factor and enhances the simplicity of the ivory paving and clean lines of the pool. Colour change LED lights provide a mood setting and show through the crystal clear slatted cover. A countercurrent for exercise is set into the widest part of the pool at the bottom of the step section. The dual 8mm slot with matching tile insert and transparent slatted cover complete the minimalistic design. The Da-Gen Daisy+ system, allows the client to swim in drinking water class pool water, giving the lowest possible base level of chlorine
meeting the standard requirements, enhancing the social experience of This pool won Silver in the sitting around the pool as much as British Pool & Hot Tubs Award the swimming experience. Due to 2018 over £150,000 Indoor Pool the basement design a freestanding Category. pool shell was constructed with the balance tank below the plant room For more details see: floor. This 12.75m long, constant www.tanbypools.co.uk depth of 1.4m pool is shaped with a or telephone 01883 622335
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Since the last issue of the ISPE Magazine, we have seen SPATEX 2018 come and go, and what a great three days it was! Read all about it on page six and seven of this issue and if you have not yet ventured to Coventry to visit SPATEX, mark the dates in your diary now (Tuesday 29th to Thursday 31st January, 2019) and see what you’ve been missing, at SPATEX 2019. I was delighted to hear from former ISPE Council member, Sam Edgar, just before SPATEX and he asked me to remember him to any of you who know him. Sam made a huge contribution to the Institute and I was delighted to hear he is doing well in his retirement. I also hear from Bill Hales, every now and again. Bill is another former ISPE Council member, and a driving force behind the ever-popular ISPE Home Study Course, and it’s good to be able to swap stories with some of these people who acted as great custodians of the Institute during their time on the Council. As John Dawes, another industry luminary and huge contributor to the ISPE, once said, we must keep one eye on where we’ve come from, so we know in which direction we are heading! Very true! We are currently planning the next series of ISPE Seminars, to be held in October and November 2018. Do please get in touch if you have a subject you would like to see presented or if you would like to give a presentation. New speakers and subjects are positively encouraged! I would like to thank all those companies who have so readily got on board and continued to offer some Industry-Supported free CPD training sessions over the last few months. More and more companies have expressed an interest in providing some free CPD training and further details will appear on the News page of the ISPE website, (www.ispe.co.uk) probably towards the Autumn, but keep an eye on the website, just in case. In the meantime, as the four foot snow drifts of early March become a distant memory and the weather turns, I wish you all a successful and prosperous ‘season’. Keep busy! Ross Alcock - March 2018
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ISPE MAGAZINE Vol. 29 No. 1 3 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. RememberingRemembering Trevor Trevor BaylisBaylis, CBE CBE
We were very sorry to hear that Trevor Baylis died on 5th March 2018. Trevor had been a Member of the Institute and attended a number of ISPE Seminars back in the 1980s and 90s. Trevor had his own company in the trade, Shotline Steel Swimming Pools, although some of our more senior members will remember Trevor at Purley Pools. In his early days he was a Physical Training Instructor and swam for the Army before performing in a circus where he escaped from an underwater sarcophagus. Trevor owned some dolphins for a while, which he said ate him out of house and home, and he also entertained people by swimming with a killer whale called Cuddles! Trevor lived on Eel Pie Island, situated in the River Thames and linked to mainland Twickenham by a bridge. Most people, though, knew Trevor as an inventor. His early inventions included the ‘Orange Aids’ system of implements for the disabled, for example. In 1991, I remember Trevor taking Molly and me to one side at an ISPE Seminar and showing us a prototype of his clockwork radio. At the time he was trying to get some interest in the idea with a view to the radio being mass-produced but, having approached various companies, including Philips, he had not managed to persuade any that it really was a good idea. Of course the rest is history as Trevor’s radio was eventually produced in South Africa and was a huge success. Trevor went on to adapt the technology used in the ‘wind-up’ radio to produce a number of other products, including wind-up torches and battery chargers for mobile phones and lap top computers, for example. The enormous success Trevor enjoyed from the mid 1990s onwards lead to him appearing in a number of TV and radio programmes and he was in demand all over the world for after-dinner speeches and personal appearances. He said he was truly honoured to meet the Queen and Nelson Mandella, along the way. Trevor championed the cause for Inventors and wanted Inventors to be taken more seriously, which was often not the case, this being demonstrated on BBC2’s daily money programme, ‘Working Lunch’ in the mid 1990s where Trevor was placed in a tin bath full of baked beans, being told he couldn’t get out until he had come up with a good idea! He sat there smoking his pipe throughout the programme, and took it all in very good humour. We were delighted to welcome Trevor to the 52nd ISPE One-Day Seminar in December 1996, where, having won the BBC Designer of the Year award earlier that year, he gave a very entertaining talk about his success and the ups and downs along the way. He presented one of his clockwork radios as the first prize in the raffle held that day. Sadly this was the last we saw of Trevor within the Institute as he became more and more in demand on the international stage and his ISPE membership lapsed. However, we will always remember Trevor’s infectious
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Trevor with one of his Clockwork radios at the ISPE Seminar in 1996
It was ironic that in 1999 Molly and I exchanged Christmas presents and immediately noticed the similarity of the size and shape of the objects within the wrapping paper. We had both gone out (no Amazon in those days) and purchased the Trevor Baylis autobiography for each other!
Where’s Trevor? Trevor had a great sense of humour, so for a bit of fun, the photograph below was taken at the Institute’s 24th One-Day Seminar in October 1989 on the main subject of “I Want An Indoor Pool”, a scripted play, produced by Bob Kent, featuring Ron Stempfer, John Asher, John Fowler and Derek Shaw.
Can you spot Trevor Baylis amongst the assembled delegates? (Answer on page 31)
ISPE MAGAZINE Vol. 29 No. 1 5 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. A recordA record breaking breaking year for for SPATEX SPATEX 2018 2018
With a record number of an impressive list of esteemed delegates on the first day of the associations - the STA (Swimming ISPE Workshops and the highest Teachers’ Association) and number of visitors in a decade, PWTAG (Pool Water Treatment SPATEX 2018 was an industry Advisory Group) amongst them. spectacular. In promising to The Show represented a bring together the best of wet wonderful cross-section of the leisure under one roof, the Show global water leisure industry. It really did deliver. wasn’t all about swimming pools - Show Organiser, Michele with 25 leading spa and hot tub Bridle says: “The signs were there companies, the hall, in places, was from the outset that 2018 was going a sea of spas! Saunas, steam to be a good year as, bowing to rooms, in fact the whole gamut of demand, we increased the size of wet leisure was there. exhibition space in the autumn and Mixing pleasure with work this quickly sold out. 127 Hundreds of exhibitors and companies participated in exhibiting visitors alike let their hair down at – the highest number since the the end of day two and donned Show moved to the Ricoh Arena glittery hats and feathered three years ago. I am delighted to headpieces in the Industry’s biggest say that the Show’s success annual jamboree which this year outstripped even our expectations, adopted a Speakeasy 1920s showing an over 8.5 per cent theme. increase in unique visitor numbers. Here’s what they said: SPATEX is well and truly Darren Tillyer – GMT Spa established, not just in the UK, but International Ltd. internationally, for representing the This year’s SPATEX was our global wet leisure industry in its best ever. It gave us the opportunity broadest sense.” to catch up with our existing clients, ISPE’s Ross Alcock says: and more importantly we made “SPATEX 2018 looked and felt contact with potential new clients, dynamic, to the point it was one of which has already visited us probably the best in the Show’s at our factory and is in the process history.” Day one and the ISPE of placing an order for a bespoke Workshops alone attracted 225 spa. May we congratulate all the people – a number not seen before SPATEX team on the excellent in SPATEX’s 22-year history. It’s organisation and assistance given obvious that visitors appreciate the both before and during the event. industry’s best source of free We’re already looking forward to education and training. Over the SPATEX 2019. three days, 768 people attended Phil Allman – EJ Bowman the double seminar and Workshop SPATEX 2018 was a very programme which were hosted by positive show for Bowman and we
6 ISPE MAGAZINE Vol. 29 No. 1 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. will definitely be exhibiting again in hopefully lead to further long-term 2019. From our point of view, we business relationships. The Ricoh were very encouraged by the crew and SPATEX team were significant increase in spa and hot extremely helpful, efficient and tub exhibitors and visitors, plus attentive at all times. the excellent seminar and work- Mark Osman - Heatstar shop opportunities, which add As always, SPATEX was a another dimension to the show. fantastic show for us and, once Neil Stephenson – again, exceeded our expectations. Certikin International Not only is the exhibition an The Certikin stand was opportunity for us to catch up with buzzing throughout all three days of existing customers, but it also gives the show and the efforts of the us a platform to show prospective Certikin team were rewarded customers who we are and what we with multiple high-quality leads from can offer. The organisation is first new customers as well as old. class and the planning and set-up process is made seamless thanks to Michele and the SPATEX team.
Missed SPATEX 2018? Make a date with SPATEX 2019: Tuesday January 29th to Thursday January 31st 2019, the Ricoh Arena, Ericsson Exhibition Hall, Coventry.
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Back in November, the Institute of Swimming Pool Engineers headed down to Plastipack’s Headquarters at St Leonards on Sea for the 15th ISPE Filtration Workshop. The Filtration Workshop is a regular feature on the ISPE events calendar and is organized by Chris Carr, FISPE, and assisted by Phil Barlow, FISPE, and Kim Mumford, MISPE. This workshop further enhances the Institute’s avenues of Chris Carr gets the ball rolling education and has proven to help those new recruits, especially The 2017 workshop kicked off students who are due to sit their with a full house of 16 delegates exams. and commenced with a Powerpoint The Filtration Workshop is display by Chris Carr covering the usually run in early November each theory for Domestic Filtration. year, and caters for around 10 to 16 From the outset, Chris stressed that delegates at a time. The main all delegates would be subject to a concept of this workshop is that practical trade test as well as a mini each delegate will have the exam, and at the end of the day opportunity to more clearly certificates would be awarded with understand both the theory and the a pass grade for both elements practical elements of domestic being graded as; pass, merit, credit swimming pool filtration, plant and or distinction. equipment. For this session, our Chris also mentioned that the enthusiastic delegates arrived from Filtration Workshop also entitles all over the country to a warm each delegate to 6 CPD points welcome from Plastipack staff, as which can be entered onto the well as Chris, Phil and Kim. NEW ISPE CPD – Activity Log,
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8 ISPE MAGAZINE Vol. 29 No. 1 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. available to anyone in the UK pool Another important message related industry. Our learned delegates to the need for a dual deep drain listened intently and posed a few system to avoid the risk of interesting questions during the entrapment. The morning session morning session. went well and the hungry delegates Later in the morning, all enjoyed an excellent buffet lunch delegates set off to Plastipack’s before getting ‘stuck in’ to the workshop area for the practical afternoon practical session. trade test which was to make a Delegates were split into pipe-work set. The pipe set test is groups for the afternoon ‘hands on’ designed to be awkward, but a session. Chris and Phil instructed good test to measure accuracy in the groups, covering all aspects of cutting pipe, glue preparation, filter and pump ‘strip down’ and perfecting glued and threaded joints rebuild. Each delegate was invited and general cleanliness. All to empty and refill a filter of its delegates were monitored media. Phil was able to give a throughout the test and each great deal of advice on pump and completed item was marked filter servicing having worked in a against key criteria to ensure a ‘hands on’ capacity on filtration good standard of workmanship and plant for over 25 years. Thanks to time taken. generous donations from our sponsors, this year we were able to use four different types of filters
WATER TESTING Phil Barlow giving guidance - work benches and tools supplied by our sponsors.
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ISPE MAGAZINE Vol. 29 No. 1 9 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. (currently supplied) with a range of was exchanged between them, different media types. making the day even more valuable. Later in the afternoon, it was back to the classroom and all delegates sat a twenty minute multi-choice exam paper. Whilst these exam papers were being marked by Chris and Kim, interested delegates had the opportunity to have a tour of Plastipack’s very interesting manufacturing facilities. It was clear from the results Working on the filters that the day’s events had paid off,
as all members had more than As well as stripping out the adequately reached the minimum sand from the filters, delegates pass mark. The average for all were instructed to remove all attendees was an excellent 74%! internal pipe-work and fittings, The highest combined score checking and inspecting for went to: damage. Any faulty components Rebecca Witt: 85% were replaced as should be the 2nd Place went to: case in a typical service scenario. Jon Bacon: 84%% Phil had also prepared a 3rd Place went to: variety of different pumps which Alfie Russell: 77.5% were to be completely stripped down, with Phil and Chris giving additional guidance as to how to Chris, Phil and Kim would like test and change a mechanical seal. to say very well done to all The delegates (some were more delegates, especially Rebecca! experienced than others) really The Institute wishes to seemed to enjoy the team spirt, formally thank Plastipack for working together in groups, and a allowing the Institute to use their fair amount of useful knowledge facilities for this event and Plastica
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on a first come–first served basis. Suppliers/Sponsors - ISPE would like to thank: Plastipack - For supplying the venue Plastica - All delegates’ pipe-work Certikin - Filter & Media Pollett Pool Group - Filter & Media SCP - Filter & Media Waterco - Filter & Media MSI - Zeoclere and Jolly Gel Plastipack’s MD – Peter Adlington CPC - For supplying a goodie bag FISPE (left) with top of the class: Golden Coast - For supplying the Jon, Rebecca and Alfie winner’s Champagne.
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Water12 Leisure • Residential Pools • Commercial Pools • SpasISPE &MAGAZINE Hot Tubs • Vol. Wellbeing 28 No. 4 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. CompanyCompany Celebration Celebration -- Asher Swimpool Swimpool Centre Centre
50 years in business and still winning awards for building swimming pools. Asher Swimpool Centre Ltd, the Fulbeck-based company was started in 1968 by John and Brenda Asher, and on their retirement 18 years ago they passed on the business to their son and daughter Andrew and Claire. They employed John Epton as Contracts Manager 18 years ago and the three of them are still running the business with 8 very talented employees, 3 of whom have served over 25 years each, building and servicing pools, spas, saunas and steam rooms covering over a 60 mile radius, and further if a customer moves house or requires our expertise.
The company are members of SPATA, the Swimming Pool & Allied Trades Association, who control the standards set by the association for pools, etc. All employees are members of the Institute of Swimming Pool Engineers. John Asher is a Past President of both organisations and Claire Asher is Chairlady of the Midland Region of SPATA, a position she has held for 20 years. The company has seen many changes, one in particular being most pools are now indoor. The first heat pump installed on a pool was delivered from the BBC’s Tomorrow’s World programme. The heating and air handling equipment has seen many money-saving changes during this time. Over the 50 year period, 27 gold, silver & bronze awards have been won, the last 2 were bronze, for outdoor pools, collected at the recent 2018 awards night. These are awarded by the SPATA covering the whole country.
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Back in October, after the AGM I have worked within the pool (and not part of the AGM business) industry for the last 37 years, but the Institute Council co-opted three my experience in water treatment new members (with their consent!) totals over 45 years; progressing who will serve as co-opted Council from the extremes of effluent members until the next AGM (date treatment to the much cleaner to be advised in October 2018) at affluent pool sector. which time (if they wish) they may I joined the young and seek formal election to serve as a dynamic team at Certikin in 1980, Council member and Director of the as Commercial Contracts Co- ISPE. ordinator; was made Commercial The three “volunteers” are Director in 1983 and enjoyed this Bob Judd, MISPE, Graham Kneale, role until I joined Stranco and in FISPE, and Jimmy Lamb, 1991 took on the challenging role of TnISPE(Cert.), all highly Managing Director. experienced, long-time ISPE I spent 21 great years at members, and we are delighted to Stranco making a success of the welcome them to assist on the company, but following the Council. acquisition by Vivendi and then a We look forward to their further three acquisitions over five combined contribution to the years, it was time to move on and I Institute and Council proceedings formed Aquatrol; specialising in the but in the meantime for those who supply of chemical dosing do not know these three ‘pillars’ of equipment. the pool and spa industry here’s a My work within the industry short introduction to each of them. has been varied; I have commissioned a plant in the desert Bob Judd in temperatures exceeding 40°C, with an armed guard and the threat that if the plant did not work I would not be leaving the country; been responsible for the design and supply of equipment for two Olympic games, and some of the largest water parks in the Middle East and the design of innovative and spectacular water features around the world, to mention just a few. In addition, my papers on water treatment for the Institute and within Europe, USA, Middle East and Mexico have been very well
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ISPE MAGAZINE Vol. 28 No. 4 15 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. received; covering a multitude of Energy Authority, providing topics at a variety of venues; engineering services on a 200 acre possibly the most challenging being nuclear research facility. Gaining the John Radcliffe Hospital, when his degree from Oxford Brookes as the lectern was surrounded by jars a mature student he then worked containing human organs. for several building services I currently serve on the consultants before entering the SPATA Technical Committee, swimming pool trade in 1993 with whose function is to write and Certikin International. review, not only the UK standards, Graham now provides but those proposed for Europe. I specialist Heating and Ventilation am also a past member of the support for the Calorex range of British Water Disinfection swimming pool air handling units, committee. energy efficiency, building design When not reading standards, and condensation control. With I am a keen skier, by that I mean both practical hands-on experience après skiing and also enjoy and expertise in design following rugby and football, not consultancy, Graham is uniquely forgetting enjoying my very new placed to speak authoritatively on first grandchild. heating and ventilation at every level.
Graham Kneale Jimmy Lamb
As a qualified engineer, Originally trained as a Marine Jimmy joined swimming pool & spa Engineer, Graham served on a total water treatment giant, BioLab UK in of 6 naval ships all over the world. 1999. From 2005 – 2008 Jimmy "It is a great technical background created his own business selling, for anyone" he explained, "giving a installing and servicing portable hot good grounding in every aspect of tubs before returning to BioLab in engineering from high voltage 2009 which shortly afterwards electrics to plumbing!" After getting became part of European market married, he moved to Oxfordshire leader in pool & spa water where he worked for the UK Atomic treatment, Bayrol. From the
16 ISPE MAGAZINE Vol. 29 No. 1 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. beginning of 2012 Pollet Pool Hygiene Management Training’. Group were appointed as the He has become the ‘go to exclusive UK & Ireland Bayrol man’ for pool & spa water treatment Distributor, and Jimmy was invited and filtration enquiries from to join the PPG team as Bayrol customers of Pollet Pool Group Product Manager. where he remains today in the Prior to this appointment, position of National Sales Jimmy spent 8 months working for Manager.’ Bristol-based pool company, Bos Leisure as a Retail & Service The ISPE Filtration Workshop Manager. This mix of retail & To be held in early November in wholesale experience has provided St. Leonards on Sea, East Sussex. Jimmy with a great understanding An excellent day for those new to of the pool & spa industry. the trade and more experienced Only this year, Jimmy has fitters. become one of only a few BISHTA approved tutors for the ‘Hot Tub Please register your interest by and Swim Spa Water emailing [email protected]
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FINISHING TOUCHES Adding value and style in and around the pool ONE-PIECE POOLS With value for money built in POOL SAFETY SYSTEMS WATER TESTING Quality systems that give peace of mind Products That Remove The Guesswork SPATEX REVIEW Review of the Brighton trade show STAINLESS STEEL POOLS POOL CLEANERS The perfect pool building material Pool Cleaning Has Never Been So Easy AUTOMATIC POOL COVERS A market going from strength-to-strength ABOVE-GROUND WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS & WOODEN POOLS The Search For Perfect Pool Water HEAT PUMPS Perfect for gardens and patio areas Choosing the right one has never HOT TUBS been more crucial New Models And Technology For The 2013 Season BRIGHTON AWARD WINNERS LIGHTING CALLING Excellence on show at the SPATA and BISHTA Awards Illuminating ideas for pools 2013 Show Promises To Be More Than Just An Exhibition
STA Pool Plant – Splash Zones | A Stainless Steel Solution | In My View STA Pool Plant – Hygiene Management | UK Pool & Spa Expo Review | In My View STA Pool Plant – Controlling Cryptosporidium | 17 Pages Of News | Opinion PLUS: Disability Access Products | Piscine, Lyon Post Show Report | 17 Pages Of News PLUS: Opening Time – Getting Ready For The New Season | Swim Spas | 15 Pages Of News PLUS: Low & No Chlorine | Shows Roundup | Project Showcase | In My View OFFICIAL MAGAZINE FOR THE UK INDUSTRY POOLS SPAS HOT TUBS SAUNAS CHEMICALS ACCESSORIES & MORE POOLS SPAS HOT TUBS SAUNAS CHEMICALS ACCESSORIES & MORE POOLS SPAS HOT TUBS SAUNAS CHEMICALS ACCESSORIES & MORE
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ISPE MAGAZINE Vol. 29 No. 1 19 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. into song. I thought for a brief places in the sub-continent and they moment that I was part of some all grouped together on the final day Bollywood extravaganza musical. for the exams. Their certificates Pune is a city famed for its were presented by the President of seats of learning of six million Rashtriya Life Saving Society inhabitants, the majority of them (India), Rear Admiral (retd) PD joining me on the roads. I have seen Sharma. I had the previous night videos on Youtube of Indian traffic enjoyed dinner at his home and met congestion, but unless you were his delightful family, both a pleasure there, you could not really grasp it. It and an honour in itself. was bedlam! It was sheer lunacy! No obvious priorities, no rights of way! Just two wheelers, three wheelers (tuk tuks) and various sized four wheelers, buses and lorries all manoeuvring and threading their way to their intended destinations sounding their horns relentlessly. They were all greatly skilled and appeared to be competing for a Delegates with certificates
driver’s job with Force India or The pool complex consisted alternatively Ganesh was looking of an Olympic-sized pool, a after them! I cannot believe how teaching pool and a diving pool. there were not any road rage The plant room was huge with poor incidents but they were all just electrics and a hazardous system cocking the proverbial ‘deaf un’ to for chlorine gas disinfection this incessant trumpeting of vehicle supplemented by the use of horns. stabilised chlorine.
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Arriving safely at my hotel, I Dodgy chlorine cylinder was met for dinner by Yusuf and a couple of his colleagues who made Following this I flew, loaded me warmly welcome and after up with presents and best wishes, savouring the excellent Indian beer, to Delhi for a three night stay for Kingfisher, it was off to bed. Over sightseeing tour including a trip to the next five days I delivered training Agra (population only 4,500,000) to to receptive delegates from various visit the Taj Mahal. If I had known it
20 ISPE MAGAZINE Vol. 29 No. 1 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. was an eight hour round trip I would at about the same time as the not have gone. The Taj Mahal (not shower room, sometime in the to be confused with the carry-out hotel’s distant past. But the bed and [takeaway] on London Road) was bedroom were both clean and splendid but could have done with comfortable with the TV showing 24 being built closer to Delhi or even hours a day Indian Premier League Gloucester. The driver allocated to cricket reruns. Result! me (whose English was just a Prior to leaving the UK I had smidgeon better than my Indian) spent £10.00 having my hair cut, or had other skills, one of them being rather paying a ‘hairdresser’ £10.00 his ability to explore the contents of to make me resemble Albert his nasal orifice with the index Einstein. So I decided to have it cut finger of one hand whilst talking on out there. This time it cost me 70 his phone with the other hand and Rupees (63p or £1.00 with the tip) by adroit use of his elbows and to make me resemble a recruit for knees, both steer and sound his the Royal Marines. horn non-stop! Due to this and the time spent with him in his car you would have been unable to get a 5 thou feeler gauge between the cheeks of my butt!
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I obviously missed one big sporting event when Gulf Air played some View from the front of hotel sort of rugby match using my suitcases as balls, judging by their condition when I got back to Heathrow. This however passed unnoticed as I was in thermal shock from going from 30 degrees C down to minus 3 degrees C. Downer! To call home on my mobile was £2.50 per minute from India and £4.50 per minute from View out of hotel window Bahrain where I stopped on the way back. Over the eight days I ran I had requested free time and up a bill in excess of £100.00. made use of the Tuk tuks to get Does anyone need a failed around in and although I have a plumber/pool lecturer in a warm well-documented history with taxi climate? drivers I found it difficult to spend Allen Wilson, FISPE - Studies in more than fifty Rupees (45p) on my Work (www.studiesinwork.co.uk) mini travels and adventures. Here the Royal Enfield Bullet, a 500cc 4-stroke single were The ISPE CPD Scheme popular but not ubiquitous but again I had one back in 1962 in England Have you registered yet? and it was great to see them out there. Well, in reality, I did not need For more details and to obtain your to see one, the sound of a Bullet FREE CPD folder and was unique and you could hear one Activity Log Sheet coming over and above the general Contact: [email protected]
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62252 Nemo A5 Advert.indd 1 03/06/2015 15:06 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. TheThe OlympianOlympian WayWay © John Dawes, FISPE. © John Dawes, FISPE In ancient times ‘The Games’ were religious and athletic with festivals held every four years at the sanctuary of Zeus, god of sky and thunder, who ruled as king of the gods on Mount Olympus. Competitions were organised by representatives of city-states and the warring kingdoms of Ancient Greece. The most widely accepted start date for the Ancient Olympics is 776 BC. This deduction is based upon some inscriptions found at Olympus, listing winners of a foot- Dr Wm Penny Brookes, race held every four years from that Wenlock Olympian Society date. Dr William Penny Brookes It’s been widely written that during the Games all conflicts (surgeon, botanist, educationalist among the participating city-states 1809-1895) started his Olympian were postponed until the Games Class in Much Wenlock, Shropshire were finished. A cessation of 1850 and devoted his life to hostilities was known as the campaigning for PE to be Olympic Peace, but like many a compulsory for children in all modern truce the idea is more of a schools – granted by the myth. Athletes on their way to the Government shortly before his Games were not necessarily death. He changed the name to the guaranteed a safe passage. But, at Wenlock Olympian Society in 1860 least, the North/South Korean in preparation to stage the first entente today for the PyeongChang national games at Crystal Palace in 2018 Games proves that an 1866, requiring £1000 to cover Olympic Peace is still a qualified costs. Notes: W G Grace won an achievement. Olympic Class gold medal in the Today, those who visit the 400 yards hurdles: the 1 mile Foot Stratford Olympic Stadium & Race 1st prize was £2 and Glee Aquatics Centre in East London, Singing 1st prize was £3. arriving via the international car In 1889, Baron Pierre de park station, may come across Coubertin, organiser of an Penny Brookes Street and The Sir International Congress on Physical Ludwig Guttman Health And Education, appealed for information Wellbeing Centre close-by. Both through the English newspapers locations are named after men who and Penny Brookes responded. championed the benefits of physical The Baron was so impressed that exercise and inspired the modern at the doctor’s invitation, he visited Olympic movement. Much Wenlock in October 1890. A
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For template make PDF special meeting of the Wenlock part, fundamentally changing the 3mm bleed no trims. Olympian Games was arranged in way much of the world now looks at his honour. disability. The annual Wenlock sports In modern times the 1st festival continues to this day ‘to Olympic swimming competition was provide competitions in sports and held in 1896 at the seaport and arts for people of every grade’. This marina Bay of Zea in the Athens year will see the 132nd Wenlock area. It was chosen as the best Olympian Games take place from venue because organizers of the 30th June to 20th July. There’s now Games wanted to avoid spending a 2km Olympian Trail that winds money on constructing a special around Much Wenlock exploring purpose swimming pool. the sites associated with the Olympian Games and Dr Wm Penny Brookes.
Stratford Stadium 2011 building for the Olympic Games 2012
Nearly 20,000 spectators Much Wenlock Guildhall on the lined the Piraeus coast to watch the Olympian Trail events. Unfortunately, the water in the bay was so cold that the When de Coubertin returned competitors suffered considerably to France he gave a glowing during their races. Boats ferried account of his stay in Much swimmers out to a raft from which Wenlock, and in particular his they dived in at the start of their host’s efforts to revive the event. The water temperature in Olympics. He set about organising April was a chilly 13 degrees C. the 1st International Olympic Games then to be staged in Athens 1896. Dr Ludwig Guttman started the Paralympics after WWII with Wheelchair Games for a few spinally injured men at Stoke Mandeville to give them something to strive for: the Games went international in 1952 and he was knighted in 1966. At the London
2012 Paralympics over 4000 Stratford Olympics 2012 opening day athletes from 147 countries took
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For template make PDF In the 100m, the American, 3mm bleed no trims. Gardner Williams dived in, and screamed out that the sea was freezing, so he hauled himself back onto the boat. Williams bowed out after that brief dip in the waters. “My will to live completely overcame my desire to win,” he said later. Hungarian champ Alfréd Hajós covered his body with grease to keep out the cold for his 1,500m Stratford Stadium 2017 66,000 for race. West Ham Utd. FC The XXXII Olympic Games in 2020 are to be held in Tokyo where The XXXIII Olympiad is to be the 1964 stadium will be held in Paris 2024 where the demolished and reconstructed swimming pools will incorporate an involving a £1 billion upgrade to innovative heating system using expand its capacity from 50,000 to heat recovered from wastewater a modern Olympic level. However, and a data centre. Parisian the plans to build a New National swimming pools have become Stadium were then scrapped experimental hotbeds. Several following public discontent over include solar panels, others treat building costs. water by ozonisation, or use carbon The review panel emphasised filtration systems, or have installed that the cost of hosting the Games stainless steel pools. could quadruple from the original Deputy Mayor of Paris, Jean- estimate. Therefore, they proposed François Martins says: “It is an a major overhaul to the existing implementation of one of our 43 plan to reduce costs much further, initiatives to make a better City including moving venues outside of through sport and the Olympic bid. Tokyo. A new design has now been We are very proud to announce approved. The winning project from that our swimming pools will be the stadium design competition eco-responsible by 2024”. Already proposes seating capacity varying the water in the Parisian sewers is between 60,000–80,000, depend- at a temperature between 13°C and ing upon the event. The cost has 20°C all year round, due to yet to be finalised. wastewater heat discharged by It is notable that only the toilets and domestic facilities!
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www.mineralsi.com Mineral Supplies International Ltd, RH17 7AR, England An MSI product - England ISPE MAGAZINE Vol. 28 No. 4 27 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. MemberMember Profile Ron Stempfer, FISPEFISPE
Ron will celebrate his 83rd birthday Thames as a Pool Designer & this year on 4th June and also 58 Engineering Manager on years in the swimming pool nationwide contracts where they industry. He joins the few people in built 76 pools a year on a “three this industry to have reached this week in & out” contract time. A landmark. He joined United Filters good way to learn the swimming & Engineering Limited at their pool business! He was also a very Putney office in April 1960, as an effective freelance salesman for Engineering Draughtsman design- Classic Swimming Pools & Riviera ing filtration schemes for local Swimming Pools, securing over 50 authority swimming pools such as contracts for them in his short time Crystal Palace sports centre, then with these firms transferred to their Water In March 1970, he joined Nor- Treatment division as a Section Cal Engineering as Sales Manager Leader, designing water treatment rising to Sales Director. One of the plants, producing drinking water for main tasks was to expand the schemes from 0.5 to 24 million ‘Arneson’ pool sweep cleaner and gallons per day in Ghana and Iraq. ‘Laars’ gas fired swimming pool boiler sales, which both became market leaders. He was also a member of the design team of the first UK produced GRP filter by Lacron Limited, along with Tony Carr and Bob Trusson. This also has become a UK brand leader. He left Nor-Cal in December 1976 in the middle of a recession to launch Aqua-Blue Limited (t.a Aqua-Blue Designs) as Architectural Designers, & Engineering Consultants for all types of swimming pools, spa pools, saunas, steam rooms, water features and swimming pool buildings. The international design practice, with an enviable portfolio of hundreds of successful Ron back in 2010 completed projects, to date, in over 27 countries, has received awards Leaving UFEL as a Section from both SPATA & ISPE in Leader he joined Gazelle residential and commercial Swimming Pools in Kingston-upon projects.
28 ISPE MAGAZINE Vol. 29 No. 1 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. Ron had previously joined the tackle more upmarket projects. This ASPC (Association of Swimming service has continued under the Pool Contractors) in 1967, he then new Director, post 2003. took Aqua-Blue into SPATA in1970. Ron was the second founder He was a very active SPATA South member of JLP Ltd., now National East Regional Chairman and as Leisure, and he is currently Chairman of the Standards researching the history of this Committee, heavily involved in the organisation updating of both the Spa Pool, & Ron has studied the specific Swimming Pool Construction requirements of wet leisure Standards during 1999. Ron joined buildings in detail, as the Practice the ISPE in 1980 as a Full Member, has for many years specialised in attended the first ISPE meeting at this demanding area of construction Rutherford’s Battle offices on 1st along with heating and ventilation October 1981 and was made a requirements. Fellow in October 1989. He is the Many of Aqua-Blue’s pool joint author of ISPE’s Deck Level buildings have been completed in Pools Technical Paper, Part 3, and co-operation with Peter Chignell won ISPE Engineering Design Gold MISPE, and the Practice shared a Awards in 1988,89,92,93, & 1995. stand with Chignell Buildings at During the same period he also SPATEX for many years. won SPATA awards for Aqua-Blue Ron also started a small designs; three Gold, one Bronze fabrication branch of the company, and one Award of Merit. which has successfully supplied the He has written about some of Aqua-Blue’s more interesting designs for both UK and European swimming pool journals on a regular basis until a few years ago, and lectured on his specialist subject; Deck Level Pools. He also designed the World’s “first” deck level liner pool system for Cascade Swimming Pools, in conjunction with Plastica pool liners, exhibited at the NEC in 1986. He also installed the first fully acrylic steam room in the UK. It is noteworthy that during Ron`s directorship in earlier years, the company undertook design work for at least 20 pool contractors, and Ron assisted many fledgling pool companies over the years, giving them the technical support they needed to
ISPE MAGAZINE Vol. 29 No. 1 29 For template make PDF 3mm bleed no trims. commercial pool trade with 1000s of all types of swimming pools & of metres of deck level transfer these specialist buildings. grilles, sumps, large pool or flume Ron`s successor was outlets and bespoke designed therefore, well equipped to carry items of pool equipment to order, in the Aqua-Blue torch forward in the ABS, polypropylene, GRP or 21st century. stainless steel. This aspect of the Ron sold his equity in the business continues to serve the company to Michael, and in trade. December 2003 resigned as In December 1999, the Director but was retained as an Design Practice was joined by Associate Design & Engineering Michael Cormacey, MISPE, who Consultant until 31st March 2017, had a very pertinent background, when he resigned to concentrate on for this business, being originally his family research & biographies. trained in the drawing office of a He is gratified to know that company of construction engineers the practice strongly continues with and with extensive contract the same integrity and attention to management experience on detail which he always insisted commercial & private pool hall upon. Ron has seen a lot of construction. A pioneer of pool changes in our industry especially buildings, he brought to the with the impact of IT, ‘autocad’ and company more than twenty years in the ever-present web. Although he the design, marketing and building sometimes laments that in contrast to the USA, and Europe, we in Britain are short of imaginative, freeform pool designs, Ron notes that the industry has in other respects become more professional and less of a cottage-style Industry. Ron will retire in March 2018.
Ron in 2012
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New Edition of HSG 179 “In general the pave surround The new edition of HSG 179 should not fall back towards the “Managing Health and Safety in pool unless there is a drainage Swimming Pools” will be published channel to waste provided at the on 21 February 2018. The revision rear of the pool edging. The design was carried out as part of HSE’s of the surrounds should be such as wide-reaching guidance review to avoid the ingress of water from programme, bringing HSG 179 into the surrounds to the pool water. I line with other HSE publications. It assume from the question that this is written in a straightforward, is an indoor pool and the surrounds accessible style, removing should be slip resistant and ambiguity and avoiding duplication. designed to drain water away from There are some changes; the pool at a gradient of 1:60 to notably it recognises changes to 1:35 (that is approximately some legislation, such as RIDDOR minimum of 17mm to a maximum and it contains information on 30mm per metre). The falls advances in technology such as around the pool should be achieved computer-aided drowning detection within the structural concrete not systems. the screed, unless under floor The biggest change is that heating is to be installed in a self- technical information on water levelling screed." treatment and swimming pool Ian Betts BSc CEng MICE FISPE MIIWEM MCIM design are no longer included. This Pool Consult Professional Swimming Pool & information is now provided by Associated Works Consultants industry, and HSG 179 signposts readers to both the external There’s Trevor! guidance and more detailed HSE guidance on other topics using hyperlinks. For this reason, HSG 179 should be used as an online resource, rather than as a stand- alone document. Thanks to Howard Gosling, FISPE for this information.
Technical Question
(Correspondence from an ISPE member) Please advise as to minimum fall of (From page 5.) For those not-so swim pool floor surround to give eagle-eyed amongst our readers, water drainage back to pool. The Trevor was standing in the second number of mm per metre would be row, just behind and between Jim most useful. Thank you. Johnson and Bob Kent.
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Brydges, S. - P.P.E. Ltd. vacant’. Do please let us know if you Calvert, M. - DG Pool + Leisure Ltd. have a vacancy (it’s free for ISPE Corrigan, W. - Cheshire S.P. & Spas Members) or if you have filled a place. Cowan, S. - Certikin International Cristescu, A. - Aqua Platinum Projects What is it? Cutbush, D. - Guncast Swimming Pools One of our Members is trying to Doody, N. - National Control identify the fitting shown below, so Emmerson, A. - Allpools and Spas Ltd. Faulkner, B. - Tanby Pools they can obtain a replacement for the Gavaghan, J.H. - National Control broken cover. It is about the size of a Gotts, J. - Jays Pool Maintenance Certikin inlet and has a central screw Hale, A. - Sapphire Water Systems only. Hayden, A. - Complete Spas Ltd. Henry, J. - Tanby Pools Horn, C. - Plastica Ltd. Johnson, D. - Haslemere Pool Services King, S. - Aqua-King Pools Low, S. - Eden Pools Ltd. McMurrough, M.A. - National Control Morris, A. - Blue Cube (Europe) Ltd. O'Connor, B. - Eden Pools Ltd. Paget, N. - Plastica Patterson, J. - Certikin International Philbin, S. - National Control Reid, G. - Azure Pool Services Roach Bartlett, J. - Tanby Pools Roberts, S.I. - St. Pools Piscines Selemani, C.E. - Aqua Platinum Projects Smith, M. - Merlin Pools Ignore the chlorine tablet Stead, J. - H2O Swimming Pools Ltd., Stocks, J. - Surrey Swimming Pools Taylor, P. - APS Pool Technics Please contact [email protected] if Wells, R. - Plastica Ltd. you can identify the manufacturer or Widdowson, I. - Merlin Pools current supplier.
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