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Mark Thomas S&P Architects
ASA – Pools for the Future - Sustainability
April 2008
S&P Ltd 30 Kingsway London WC2B 6EX +44 (0) 20 7831 8877
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S&P Major Projects
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What is an International Pool?
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An economically sustainable 50m pool
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Relatively easy to accommodate Mr Spitz
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Die-Hard Fitness
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But also need to accommodate others
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And most importantly…
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Scale of Provision - Event
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Scale of Provision - Community
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What can go wrong…
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…in 19 years.
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Temporary Pools - technically not a problem
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But it’s not that easy
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Unless the space exists already
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Sized for the Event
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Temporary event overlay
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Provision
Olympic Games 4 Years 10,000
World Championships 4 Years 5,000
European Championships 2 Years 3,000
Commonwealth Games 4 Years 3,000
Olympic Trials 4 Years 1,500
European Trials 2 Years 500
Commonwealth Trials 4 Years 1,000
World Cup Series Annually1,000
British Grand Prix Annually500
Source: ASA Information Sheet 1996
Which Event?
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Flexibility – Floors & Bulkheads
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Flexibility – Floors & Bulkheads
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Flexibility – Floors & Bulkheads
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Flexibility – Floors & Bulkheads
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Flexibility – Floors & Bulkheads
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Maximise Utilisation
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Leisure Water
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Complimentary Development
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The Future…
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Joined-up service
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A True Health Centre?
“A real Health Service must surely concern itself with the way people live, with town and country planning, houses and open spaces, with diet, with playgrounds, gymnasia, baths and halls for active recreation, with workshops, kitchens, gardens and camps, with the education of every child in the care and use of his body, with employment and the restoration to the people of the right and opportunity to do satisfying creative work. The true ‘health centre’ can only be a place where the art of healthy living is taught and practised: it is a most ominous and lamentable misuse of words to apply the name to what is and should be called a ‘medical centre’ ”
White Paper Reviewed. VI.
By an urban practitioner.
Lancet. 1944, i :443
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The time is right…
Ticking obesity bomb – up 15% in 20 years
Declining leisure building stock
Lack of funds for leisure
Government initiative
•wants health service, not just sickness service
•Wants wellbeing to improve
•Wants joined up approaches and buildings–
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Thank you
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