1. Indoor Water Parks
Subjects
covered
 History of Water
Parks
 Filtration Systems
Water Park Project
Everyone goes to the water park fairly often, but have you
 How water parks
are designed and ever stopped and thought about what all really went into
made. making it and what it takes to keep it running but most
 Future innovations importantly safe and clean. Well we did! And we were
very surprised about what we found out along the way
 Interviews with
and hopefully you will be too
staff members of
Country Springs
and WTI
 And more…
.
Contents
History 2
Creating a Water Park 3 History of Indoor Water Parks
Creating a proposal 4 The first indoor water Polynesian Resort in the eclipsed by the giants that
Understanding the client’s park was built in 1985 Wisconsin Dells, to make followed such as the
needs 5 Edmonton, in Alberta, it a year round tourist Kalahari and The
Canada at the West destination. Before its Wilderness. It still operates
Project Managers 6
Edmonton Mall. It was construction the within the Dells but is now
Building the park 7 called The World Water Wisconsin Dells season a cheap sideshow next to
Park and was over only ran from Memorial the huge resorts that have
Keeping it safe and
200,000sq ft which is Day to Labor Day. This conquered the Dells.
Healthy 8 fairly big for and Indoor new type of Water Park However since the first
Water Park. It was a allowed them to continue Water Park in Canada the
Filtration systems 9
huge success for the mall operation all year and water park business has
H.A.V.C 10 and is still operating, allowing them to skyrocketed with over
(although with some add- maintain a constant flow 1,000 water park resorts in
What the future holds
11 on’s) to this day. The of income throughout the North America and with
success of the World year. Unfortunately the Europe and Asia following
Fun Facts 12
Water Park in Canada Polynesian Resort did not all in all the future looks
prompted the first indoor experience the same pretty good for the Indoor
water park in America to success as the World Water Park business.
be built in 1989 by the Water Park and was soon

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Indoor Water Parks
Creating a Water Park
Now everyone just assumes that if somebody wants to build a Water
Park they just do some sketches gets the money and calls the builder
right? No, wrong! It turns out that there’s more to it than that so my
partner Gabe and I went to WTI, (a water park design firm based in
Beaver Dam Wisconsin) to find out how it’s really done.
Interviews with the staff
While we were at WTI
we talked to several Creating a Proposal
There are two main types a bid. Then the will send to a water park
employees and asked
of Water Parks that WTI government chooses who company. The proposal
designs private and to hire. In a private one includes schematics,
them a few questions.
municipal. Municipal is the company can only drawings, estimations
for the government and look at one persons offer. on cost, numbers of
1.What is the Biggest
is generally smaller. However most of the
bolts, and various
Private is a company time private ones will
project you have ever other materials and
choosing to hire you and look at more than one
things that will be
worked on? 2. What’s are generally bigger. The person’s proposal to find
the best one.
necessary to build the
main difference between
the smallest? the two is that by law a park. If it is accepted
So what is a proposal? those are the plans the
municipal project has to
Amin 1. A 150,000 m2 be open to all companies water park will be
A proposal is a document
and allow them to submit based off of.
that a firm such as WTI
water park in Dubai
2. A $100,000 pool Understanding The Clients needs
When it comes to East if you just but rows sense. Unlike us people over
Adam 1. A $150,000 designing a water park of chairs in front of a there will not let another
person or family ride with
one of the most wave pool people would not
splash pad. like it. Instead you must them on a slide so it would
important things to
design earthworks to make make more sense to build a
understand is the client’s
private areas with 4-5 chairs 2-3 person ride.
2. A 13 million dollar needs as well as the
each. Also if you build a
regions cultures. For
slide in the Middle East with
project in Canada. instance in the Middle 5-6 seats it would not make

3. Indoor Water Parks
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Project Managers/ Management
Before the park can models of the park. as theme and size.
even be made complex But the people who They help the owners
and the water set really lead the project choose the site to put
flowing the water park are the project their parks on based
needs to be planned managers. They are on soil and landforms
down to the piping. the ones who deal with (such as hills valleys,
Everything even the the clients as travel to ect…). They also take
number of bolts the site during things such as bus Interviews (continued)
necessary must be construction. They also routes, neighborhoods,
calculated. This is done put together the plans, and accessibility into
What changes have
by the Auto-Cad, schematics, drawings, consideration when
you noticed to water
department they use and other materials planning it. And in
parks over time?
programs such as Cad necessary for the some cases a Project
and Revit to as well as proposal. They talk to manager will work on
Photoshop to make the owners to up to 15 projects at Amin- Things such as
schematics and 3-D determine things such once. wave pools and lazy
river haven't changed
over time however
things such as the flow
Building the park rider, water coasters,
and family slides are
Okay, now the plans Filtration systems that They said that they fairly new additions,
have been made the clean the water and originally wanted to also people’s
slides planned but it is heating and cooling run the river faster but expectations of water
still a long way to go systems. Once one is some the turns were parks have grown in
until the park can open chosen let’s just say sharper than they were past years and simply
to the public. Now the it’s, Neuman Group. supposed to be and repairing old facilities
Owner has to choose They send construction they caused problems no longer works.
who will build it. Firms workers to the site. It when it was ran at the
such as the Nueman is very important that original speed. As a
group submit bids to they follow the result they had to redo
the water park owner. designer’s plans down the pumps and piping
Each tries to either be to the nearest inch. for the Lazy river.
faster, cheaper, or For instance when we
better in one way or were at Country
another. They also sell Springs we asked
and install the about their lazy river.

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Keeping it safe and healthy
Once the water park is up and neutralize each other. It chloramines the gasses you
and running there is still the also means having or smell. In several studies it
issue of keeping it healthy upgrading ventilation has been shown that
and safe. This includes systems to remove lifeguards and guests
simple things such as hiring chloramines. You know staying in a water park with
lifeguards and putting down when you enter a pool and higher amounts of
Liquid Chlorine and sulfuric non-slip flooring in pools think wow they put way too chloramines are more likely
and in areas such as much chlorine in here! to experience stuffy nose,
acid is mixed into the water entrances. But this also That’s actually wrong the eye irritation and colds than
includes things such as chlorine smell comes from those who are in a well
by a series of mini pumps chlorinating the water and the chlorine breaking down ventilated park.
adding various chemicals to the oils and stuff in the pool.
at the Country Springs
the water to balance the pH The byproducts are
Water Park. Employees
check the water twice a
Different types of Chlorine/ pH control
day to make sure the right
There are three different expensive than gas added to the water it
types of chlorinating but less dangerous. makes it to acidic so
amounts are being added. substances used to Solid chlorine/ Co2 is added to balance
chlorinate pools.
tablets often used in it.
Chlorine gas, dangerous
home pools but are Liquid acid is also added
not used on many jobs,
almost never in water fairly often to balance
is highly explosive,
parks. out the pH too.
poisonous and very
When Gas is used it
hard to use, however it
makes the water to
is very cheap.
basic so sodium
Liquid chlorine,
bicarbonate is added to
Pumped into pools
even it out
during filtering easy
When liquid chlorine is
to use, more
Filters
Different water parks use for each pool/slide 3. Cartridge filters (commonly
different kinds of filters. This ( sand filters used in home pools but not
is because of size, remove impurities in water parks.)
efficiency, or cost. When we from water by
went to Country springs we forcing water 4. Country Springs has a UV
were able to tour their through a layer of filter which kills bacteria
underground filter/ pump sand several feet and removes chloramines
room, here’s what they had thick. The sand from the water.
traps all of the
1. 4 Iron Filters (to There is another type of filter that
contaminates in it
remove the Iron Country Springs doesn’t have called a
and the sand it
from the city water regenerative media filter. It’s
removed from the
before it went into basically a bunch of rods coated with
water by several
the water park) a chemical called Perlite which makes
cartridge filters in
dirt and debris stick to them. Not
the pipe.)
2. A lot of sand only is it more effective than a sand
filters at least one filtering it also takes less water to
clean it.

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H.A.V.C Systems/ Heating the water
Country Springs keeps their Now even if you don’t think it is basically a large
water park a little warmer than about it the water has to be insulated pipe in which the
most standard water parks. But heated too so it doesn’t heated water and the
to even keep the pools from freeze in the pipes or make chlorinated, filtered water
freezing in the winter they the pools ice cold. To do this runs side by side. The heat Above: the inside of the
must have a H.A.V.C system. the park has several boilers, from the heated water
H.A.V.C system at the
Theirs is actually underneath a here’s how it works. Like a transfers to the filtered
stairwell and outside. It is a furnace used in a house water and then it is sent to
Country Springs Water
very big one measuring easily there is an area in which the the park. The reason that
over 20-30 ft. and is 12-15 ft. flames are lit. However the the chlorinated water Park.
tall. It contains the parks air water is ran through pipes doesn’t get run through the
filters, heating elements, and over the flames. Then they Boiler is because they don’t
Below: Boilers in the back
some of the fans that are used are taken down to the filter want chlorine buildups in the
to move air around the park. room. Once it is down in pipes which possibly if
room of Country springs
However unlike some systems filter room it is ran through overheated combust.
it has no air conditioning. thing called a heat exchange heat the parks water.
Future rides and attractions
As time goes on new rides a new idea called the and automated fish,
and attractions are Hydrodome. The Hydrodome dolphins and manta rays to
developed and eventually is not so much of a ride but make the experience lifelike.
replace earlier attractions. more of a separate area of There is currently a
Examples of this are things the park. In it participants hyrdodome in Fort
like the Flow rider and would be able to get into a Lauderdale Florida.
things like the Tornado B.O.B (breathable
slides and Water Coaters. observation bubble) and
Not only will there no doubt dive into a pool. In it there
be new slides and other would be several separate
things but one of the big areas (one for each depth)
things being looked into. Is as well as artificial choral
Fun Facts
 There are over 1,000 water parks in
North America.
 Over 78 million people attend water Above: the Hydrodome is an
parks throughout North America every interactive underwater
environment in which users
year. can B.O.B’s (Breathing
observation bubble) to
explore the undersea world.
 To be considered “big” in the Indoor
Water Park world you must be over
50,000 ft2

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Left: This graph shows
some of the, but not all of
the biggest water parks. In
fact some of them aren’t
even that big but they are
on there for comparison.
Water Parks
So from making the bid, to hard it is to make a water me think about water parks
deciding on a theme, there park as well as little things a little bit differently. I and I
are many aspects that go such as how to make a Prezi hope now that you have
into building a water park, and even how to make this read my report you can say
much less maintaining one. report. All in all I feel this the same.
This project has really project has been very
shown me and Gabe how interesting and really made