Preparing Commercial / Public Swimming Pool Plans for Review…
The description “Public Swimming Pool” use includes the following facilities;
(1) AMUSEMENT PARKS
(2) APARTMENT COMPLEXES
(3) BED AND BREAKFAST
(4) CAMPGROUND
(5) CLUB HOUSE
(6) COMMERCIAL
(7) CONDOMINIUMS
(8) HEALTH / FITNESS
(9) HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATIONS
(10) HOTELS
(11) LICENSED DAY CARE FACILITIES
(12) MEDICAL FACILITIES
(13) MINERAL SPRINGS
(14) MOTELS
(15) MUNICIPAL POOLS
(16) PUBLIC / PRIVATE SCHOOLS
Our swimming pool consulting / design efforts will typically need to collaborate with other design professionals that are involved in exhibiting the new construction and or remodeling requirements for the building structure portions of a given facility.
ARCHITECTURAL
CIVIL
MECHANICAL
PLUMBING
ELECTRICAL
LANDSCAPE
The discipline specific in each of these categories above will involve fulfilling a facility’s overall code compliant construction intentions, which are mandated by officials for new or remodeling public / commercial swimming pools / spas.
116064.1 Uniform Standards to prevent physical entrapment
116065. Violation; misdemeanor; penalty
Building codes also require that prior to the commencements of any new or remodeling construction that plans must be submitted to the jurisdiction for review and approval. The plans must exhibit how the new or retrofitting of an existing facility is going to be brought up to the current Department of Environmental Health codes standards.
The local Building / Health Dept.’s Plan Checkers guidelines require the submission of a complete plan set. These must exhibit the layout and construction details for the information that they deem necessary in providing them clear and concise descriptions for all the proposed construction and or remodeling work scope intentions. These descriptions must address everything that is mandated by officials for how the facility is intending to achieve code compliance.
Our approach to accommodating the necessary exhibitions is by establishing an A to Z spacial outline that allows a Plan Checker to process the verification of compliance more easily!
Our planning sheet listings have been developed over years of preparing plans for the Building Permit Submission process, not just a preliminary Plan Check Review. It has been from the back and forth of being critiqued by many different jurisdictions nationwide that our understanding and approach for seeking approval has benefited.
Realize that the authorities that are in charge of the approval process must be able to quickly and concisely understand the plans and find what is necessary to be shown on plan or approval delays will result in responding to their correction notices;
Our objective is to correctly exhibit how it is intended to build or remodel your public use swimming pool and or spa so that it is compliant with the current approved standards, codes, regulations and guidelines. The required information must address on plan the following elements regardless of the size of the pool i.e.;
The RED items listed below indicate the architectural planning sheets, which you will need to provide us information about the site’s specifics.
The BLUE items are the sheets that we as the Pool Designer would need to produce in order to collaborate all the site specific information i.e.; civil, architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing.
NOTE: All of the site engineering will require a “WET STAMP” on those plans from the Engineer of Record (EOR) for each of their disciplines i.e.; electrical, mechanical, civil, plumbing (storm drains, water & sewer).
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Restroom / Bathhouse Facilities
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Bathhouse Construction Material and Finish
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Labeling / Coding of Piping and Equipment
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Pool Construction Material and Finish
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Decking Areas
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Decking Drainage
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Depth
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Depth Markers
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Diving Area / Equipment
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Drinking Fountain
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Electrical
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911 – Emergency Telephone
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Equipment Room or Equipment Enclosure
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Fencing
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Fill Spout / Autofill devices
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Filters
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Filter Backwash
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Sanitizer / Gas Chlorine / Doser / Erosion Feeder
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Hair / Lint Strainer
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Lifeline / Anchors
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Lifeguard Chairs
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Lighting / Pool / Spa
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Lighting Decking
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Main Drain
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Operation Instructions Manuals
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Rim Flow Overflow Gutters
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Piping
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Pool Heaters
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Pool Inlets
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Pressure Gauges
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Pump and Motor
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Flow Meter Indicator
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Re-Circulation System
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Sewage Disposal Connection / Size
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Sidewalls
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Sight Glass
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Signs
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Surface Skimmers
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Bottom Slope
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Steps and Ladders
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Turnover Rates
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Vacuum Equipment
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Water Supply
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Total Dynamic Head Calculations (TDH)