I'm currently in the process of putting together a committee to start planning for a new aquatic facility in our area. I'm asking all of you to help me make a list of the things that should go into a facility if you had unlimited resources and space. I want to start my project with the biggest dream possible and then have it brought back to earth by money limitations, etc.
What I'm looking for are comments about our own facilities features that work well, that you would never do again, that you would change, that you would do differently, and what you wish you could have. I want to hear from experience.... What makes your facility work so well or why you pool is the arm pit of pools. Here is an example:
I've learned from one pool that they should have built a permanent wall between their lap pool and their zero depth entry rec. pool. The building is so noisy they can barely run a meet if people are in the recreation pool. Don't leave anything untouched (pool size, deck space, configuration, locker rooms, office space, outdoor facilities, observation seating, etc.)
Our initial plan is to build a 50 meter indoor, with adjacent recreation pool, and an outdoor splash area for the hot summers. We are one mile above sea level and our winters go from October to May. I'm hoping all you can help with the things you have all learned from the many years we have been swimming.
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okay you said fantasy
Maybe make the setting area retractable so that when all of it is not needed you can use the space to stretch. There is no place to really stretch out before or after at our pool other than standing on the slimey tile floor. Yech.
Cover the outdoor pool with a retractable roofing system so that in the winter it could still be functional.
Floors in the locker room that are graded to drain esp in the shower area, so that puddles dont stand.
Adequate air flow, fans or something so that the chemicals and the perfumes/after shave fumes dont linger on the top of the pool. Really important to cut down on respiratory illnesses.
An decent sound system, so that you can understand the annoucer other than a muffled ":lane blah: :blah: lane :blah: :blah: "
Pay attn to locker room access, at an area facility in order to access the ladies locker room from the pool area you have to walk literally through the gang showers, was a little unnerving last year to be showeringafter the meet and have other women walking through dressed, :shakeshead:
okay you said fantasy
Maybe make the setting area retractable so that when all of it is not needed you can use the space to stretch. There is no place to really stretch out before or after at our pool other than standing on the slimey tile floor. Yech.
Cover the outdoor pool with a retractable roofing system so that in the winter it could still be functional.
Floors in the locker room that are graded to drain esp in the shower area, so that puddles dont stand.
Adequate air flow, fans or something so that the chemicals and the perfumes/after shave fumes dont linger on the top of the pool. Really important to cut down on respiratory illnesses.
An decent sound system, so that you can understand the annoucer other than a muffled ":lane blah: :blah: lane :blah: :blah: "
Pay attn to locker room access, at an area facility in order to access the ladies locker room from the pool area you have to walk literally through the gang showers, was a little unnerving last year to be showeringafter the meet and have other women walking through dressed, :shakeshead:
