This document discusses the process of designing and building indoor water parks. It covers the history of indoor water parks beginning in 1985 in Canada. When designing a water park, project managers work with clients to understand their needs and create detailed proposals including schematics, drawings and cost estimates. They also consider cultural and regional factors in the design. Once approved, construction begins with installing filtration, heating and cooling systems before water features can be added. The future of indoor water parks looks promising as innovations continue to be made.

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 everything that really
made. goes into making a water park as well as what it takes to
 Future innovations keep one safe and clean. Well we did! We were very
surprised about what we found out along the way and
 Interviews with
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 in, Wisconsin Dells to make followed such as the
needs 5 Edmonton, 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 relatively small resort
Park and was over only ran from Memorial compared to the huge
Keeping it safe and
200,000 sq. ft. which is Day to Labor Day. This resorts that have since
Healthy 8 fairly big for and indoor new type of water park conquered the Dells.
water park. It was a huge allowed them to continue However, since the first
Filtration systems 9
success for the mall and operation all year, water park in Canada the
H.A.V.C 10 is still operating, maintaining a constant water park business has
(although with some add- flow of income skyrocketed with over
What the future holds
11 ons) to this day. The throughout the year. 1,000 water park resorts in
success of the World Unfortunately the North America. With
Fun Facts 12
Water Park in Canada Polynesian Resort did not Europe and Asia following,
prompted the first indoor experience the same all in all the future looks
water park in America to success as the World pretty good for the Indoor
be built in 1989 by the Water Park and was soon Water Park business.

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Indoor Water Parks
Creating a Water Park
Now everyone just assumes that if you want to build a water park
you just do some sketches, get the money, and call 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 customer.
employees and asked
of Water Parks that WTI government chooses who The proposal includes
designs, private and to hire. In a private one schematics, drawings,
them a few questions.
municipal. Municipal is the company can look at and estimations on cost
for the government and only one persons offer. as well as numbers of
1.What is the Biggest
is generally smaller. However most of the bolts, and various other
Private is a company time private ones will materials and things that
project you have ever
choosing to hire you and also look at more than will be necessary to build
worked on? 2. What’s are generally bigger. The one person’s proposal to the park. If it is accepted
main difference between find the best one. those are the plans the
the smallest? the two is that by law a water park will be built
So what is a proposal?
municipal project has to from .
Amin 1. A 150,000 m2 be open to all companies
A proposal is a document
and allow them to submit
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
Adam 1. A $150,000 designing a water park of chairs in front of a over there will not let
another person or family
some of the most wave pool people would not
splash pad. like it. Instead you must ride with them on a slide. So
important things to
design earthworks to make it would make more sense to
understand are the
private areas with 4-5 chairs build a 2-3 person ride.
2. A 13 million dollar client’s needs as well as
each. Also, if you build a
the regions cultures. For
slide in the Middle East with
project in Canada. instance in the Middle 5-6 seats it would not make

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Project Managers/ Management
Before the park can 3-D models of the as theme and size.
even be made, and the park. But the people They help the owners
water set flowing, the who really lead the choose the site to put
water park needs to be project are the project their parks on. This is
planned down all the managers. They are often based on soil and
way to the piping. the ones who deal with landforms (such as
Everything, even the the clients and travel hills valleys, ect…).
number of bolts to the site during They also take things Interviews (continued)
necessary must be construction. They also such as bus routes,
calculated. This is done put together the plans, neighborhoods, and
What changes have
by the Auto-Cad, schematics, drawings, accessibility into
you noticed to water
Department, using and other materials consideration when
parks over time?
programs such as Cad necessary for the planning it. In some
and Revit to design as proposal. They talk to cases a Project
well as Photoshop to the owners to manager will work on Amin- Things such as
make schematics and determine things such up to 15 projects at wave pools and lazy
once. 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 install the Filtration were at Country fairly new additions,
have been made and systems that clean the Springs we asked also people’s
the slides planned but water and heating and about their lazy river. expectations of water
it is still a long way to cooling systems. Once They said that they parks have grown in
go until the park can a company is chosen, originally wanted it to past years and simply
open to the public. let’s just say it’s run faster but some repairing old facilities
Now the Owner has to Neuman group. the turns were sharper no longer works.
choose who will build Several things happen. than they were
it. Firms such as the First they send supposed to be. This
Nueman group submit construction workers caused problems when
bids to the water park to the site. It is very it was run at the
owner. Each tries to important that they original speed. As a
either be faster, follow the designer’s result, they had to
cheaper, or better in plans down to the redo the pumps and
one way or another. nearest inch. For piping for the Lazy
They also sell and instance when we river.

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

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H.V.A.C Systems/ Heating the water
Country Springs keeps their to move air around the park. Then the water is taken down to
water park a little warmer than However, unlike some the filter room. Once it is down in
most standard water parks. Even systems it has no air filter room it is run through thing
to keep the pools from freezing conditioning. called a heat exchange which is
in the winter they must have a basically a large insulated pipe
Below: Boilers in the
H.V.A.C system. It works by Now even if you don’t think where the heated water and the
heating a sheet of metal and about it, the water has to be chlorinated, filtered water runs back room of Country
then blowing air across it. The heated too so it doesn’t side by side. The heat from the
heat from the metal heats the air freeze in the pipes or make heated water transfers to the springs heat the parks
in a process called conduction. the pools ice cold. To do this filtered water and then it is sent
Theirs is actually underneath a ,the park has several boilers, to the park. The reason that the water.
stairwell and outside. It is a here’s how it works. The chlorinated water doesn’t get run
very, very large one. In fact it is water is run through pipes through the boiler is because they
so big that you can walk around over a set of burners, the don’t want chlorine buildups in the
inside it. It contains the parks air heat from the flames are pipes which possibly if overheated
filters, heating elements, and transferred into the water in could combust.
some of the fans that are used a process called conduction.
Future rides and attractions
As time goes on, new rides called the Hydrodome. The fish, dolphins, and manta
and attractions are Hydrodome is not so much rays to make the experience
developed and eventually of a ride but more of a lifelike. There is currently a
replace earlier attractions. separate area of the park. In hyrdodome in Fort
Examples of this are the it participants would be able Lauderdale Florida.
Flow rider and Tornado to get into a B.O.B
slides and Water Coaters. (breathable observation
Not only will there no doubt bubble) and dive into a pool.
be new slides and other In it there would be several
things in the future but one separate areas (one for each
of the big things being depth of the sea) as well as
looked into. Is a new idea artificial choral, automated
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 use 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 hope
are many aspects that go such as how to make a Prezi now that you have read my
into building a water park, and even how to make this report you can say the
much less maintaining one. report. All in all I feel this same.
This project has really project has been very
shown Gabe and me how interesting and really made