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Natatorium DesigN maNual
Natatorium design is a complex business with serious energy, comfort, health, and
safety considerations. Heat, humidity and chemicals in pools combine to create
harsh environments that are hard on buildings and hard on equipment.
Providing a safe, healthy and comfortable pool environment while minimizing
operating costs and delivering the best possible air quality is no simple task. The
system design and equipment must perform reliably, day in and day out, with
minimum energy consumption and maximum energy recovery to provide precision
control of the environment, no matter what the ambient temperatures or pool
activity level.
At Seresco, we deal with natatoriums day in and day out. Our team of engineers
has over 70 years of combined experience dealing with natatorium environment
design and control. Unfortunately, we do encounter lots of design mistakes
that could have been prevented with a little more insight into the idiosyncrasies,
technologies and approaches to natatorium design. That’s why we created this
Natatorium Design Guide.
Comprehensive Design Resources to Assist You
Our goal is to provide the most comprehensive and useful collection of
natatorium design resources available anywhere, including:
1. Seresco’s Natatorium Design Guide – printed version (hard copy and
pdf download available)
2. Seresco’s Online Natatorium Design Guide – online (html version with
point and click navigation – visit: SerescoDehumidifiers.com/DesignGuide)
3. Design Guide Video Reference – online (30 short video segments
discussing design details)
4. Design Guide Checklist – online, PDF, and back of this guide
5. PDH Credited Design Presentation – online (52 minute non-commercial
presentation with PDH certificate visit: SerescoDehumidifiers.com/
Engineers)
Introduction