Club Cardio
Hamilton, New Zealand
When Hamilton, New Zealand’s Club Cardio (now Fastlane Fitness) looked to upgrade the aquatic offerings at their facility, they looked to Natare and our partner CPC International (now Natare NZ).
Project Overview
As with all of Natare’s international clients, coordination, communication and the ability to deliver a superior product were at the forefront of this project.
As locally owned facility, Fastlane Fitness values the quality and diversity of their clientele and the services they offer. Natare was an obvious choice to provide a new, professional combination of aquatics equipment, including a new competition pool, a stand-alone... Read More
The primary challenge was how to create a pool with the proper width that was both structurally sound and fit in a standard shipping container.
Project Challenges
The counter-swim pool, a unique design, sits slightly nestled into the deck adjacent to the competition pool. The narrow wall profiles and requisite equipment presented both layout and structural design challenges.
By encasing the floor structure and the joints with the wall structure in concrete (done on-site), Natare was able to stabilize the shape of the pool, while maintaining a side wall thickness of only four inches. Only by drastically reducing the width of the wall structure was the entire assembly able to fit in the shipping container and arrive on site, ready to be placed and plumbed.
Natare completed a 25m x 25m competition pool and a counter-swim pool, complete with a perimeter re-circulation system and MicroFloTM vacuum sand filter.
Scope of Work
Natare provided a single 11.1m2 (120ft) vacuum sand filtration system, along with Natare control systems and automatic water level controller. Situated in a room adjacent to the competition pool, the filter saves on both space and water. This particular filter was customized to serve both the competition pool and counter-swim pool, eliminating the need for a second filtration system.
In addition to this equipment, Natare provided fully-welded recessed steps (integral to the wall assemblies) custom grab rails, starting platforms, stanchions, anchors and our machined solid GPM polymer grating.
