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Arup + Olympic Delivery Authority
2011
£225m
51.25m x 25m main competition pool with a traversable boom, a submersible and a 25m x 12.5m movable floor; 51.25m x 25m warm up pool with a traversable boom and two 25m x 25m movable floors; 25m x 21m diving pool with a movable floor and diving pool bubble system; divers warm pool.
Design of the water treatment and water feature systems; site monitoring of installation and commissioning.
Zaha Hadid and S&P
ARUP
ARUP
Devin Consulting
At London Aquatics Centre, four independent water treatment plants are provided. Circulation within each pool takes account of the movable floors and the traversable booms, and the routing of all pipework is such that no pipework is buried underneath either of the pool tanks. This is an important design consideration should remedial works ever be required on the distribution pipework.
The water treatment system incorporates PAC flocculation, medium rate filtration on single grade sand beds, photo-oxidation using ultraviolet, heating, pH control and residual disinfectant control using chlorine. Backwash water is recovered for WC flushing; VSDs control pump flows.
Photos: Hufton + Crow
