The document discusses the construction of swimming pools on elevated floors in buildings, highlighting the need for detailed design, structural support, and moisture control. It emphasizes the importance of considering durability, stability, and proper positioning to ensure safety and functionality. Additional considerations include damp roofing to prevent moisture damage and effective water tide control to maintain construction integrity.

1. How to Construct a Swimming Pool on
an Elevated Floor?

2. The quest for creativity and luxury has pushed swimming pools to the terrace and
elevated floors of buildings and hotels. Internationally, swimming pools in leisure
parks, resorts, office towers and shopping malls have got a new definition.
Renovation experts reveal that the transformation of residential and commercial
spaces into multi-floor buildings has an additional parameter and it is suspended
pools. It is legal to construct a pool into family living rooms, balcony or terraces of
a multi-story luxury building.

3. Consider the following parameters before constructing a pool on upper floors:
Design- Like the design of every other suspended component, the design of pool
on an elevated level should be detailed and accurate. It should take care of the
floor beneath the pool's surface on high priority while fulfilling the basic
functional requirements like durability, strength, stability, water pressure, stress,
vibrations and resistance to internal and external forces. The expertise of a water
engineer will hold equal importance to that of an architect-engineer

4. Support- The structural support frame of the building should be able to support
the beams of the pool accurately, be it cantilevered or simply supported. It is
crucial to connect the decks of the pool to these beams because the pool decks
carry the concentrated load.
Position- A well-positioned pool floor promotes structural balance. To balance
the weight of the pool equally, its floor should be fixed properly on its beams.
Damp Roofing- To prevent moisture from passing into interior spaces, consider
doing damp roofing on internal and external parts of the pool, which otherwise
will ruin the other constructs.

5. Water Tide Control- The structural set up if the pool's water pipes should be
architecturally unambiguous. The system should be able to control water
pressure and flow so that water does not spill out and keeps the stability of the
construction intact.
Insulation- An efficiently designed pool will contain adequate insulation so that
the vibrations and noise produced by pool components do not disturb the
neighboring rooms.

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