FT Leisure
Helping FT Leisure Develop Swimming Pool Solutions for Center Parcs
The Challenge
FT Leisure won the major contract to provide the swimming pool solutions for holiday company Center Parcs’ newest site; Longford Forest in the Republic of Ireland, which opened in 2019.
A key feature of the Longford Forest site is its Subtropical Swimming Paradise. This attraction includes a wave pool, slides, chutes, wild water rapids, outdoor pools, a lazy river, flumes, a children’s pool, plus a spa with hot tubs.
To meet Center Parcs’ requirements, FT Leisure needed an integrated and networked suite of control panels. This would provide a central point of control and monitoring for all the various pools on the site.
To deliver a high-quality solution, within strict time constraints, FT Leisure asked Bensons to design, build and programme the control panels that would enable their wider system.
One factor in this project, as with many others, was the space constraints. As Center Parcs needed to optimise the space on site for holidaymakers, they naturally wanted to minimise the space take up by plant and equipment.
A second consideration was the time the project would take. The control panel suite needed to be designed, built and installed into the site plan room at an early stage of the site construction.
The Result
The entire suite of control panels was assembled and tested at Bensons’ site before delivery to the Center Parcs Longford Forest site. This included the installation and debugging of the PLC programmes, with everything delivered within the tight timescales.
Our engineers supported FT Leisure’s team remotely during the integration of the control panels with the rest of the pool systems. As planned, Bensons’ engineers visited the site twice during the commissioning process to support the fine tuning and implementation of the overall system.
When requirements from FT Leisure changed, we were able to respond quickly, modifying the PLC programmes and providing on-site engineers to modify the control panel design to FT Leisure’s changing specifications.
Learn more about FT Leisure and what they do: www.ftleisure.co.uk
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