how to design a swimming pool?
how to design a swimming pool?
(OP)
hi, i m a new user of this forum. but i have a problem to design a swimming pool. so pls help me to solve the design procedure of swimming pool.give me the detail procedure while designing a swimming pool.






RE: how to design a swimming pool?
What size? What application above, below ground, personal, commercial, apartment, municipal? Where? What country? How many people? What's your water source? Cleaning requirements? What other facilities are going to be going in nearby: washing rooms, changing rooms, showers, gyms?
Go do your homework = Check your local swimming pool dealers and country, state, county, and city reg's. Even the locks on the fences and gates on the typical swimming pools are regulated. You don't know enough to start with this kind of question.
RE: how to design a swimming pool?
A well engineered swimming pool needs the vase be built usually in reinforced concrete as any basement would. You need check for the case of the pool full and void. Should use concrete with waterproofing additives, or in whatever the way ensure no leaks will affect the surrounding buildings, what is a standing cause of unforeseen settlement problems worldwide.
The same care needs be taken with its water supply and outflow, and the details where lights are embedded in the walls etc. You should test the pool for leaks, and if found call a firm specialized in making the vase tight.
Even with crack control checks and additives for impermeabilization, actual waterproofing of the vases uses to be discharged on some inner layer of water proofing mortar or paint. This can be the same finish or have tile finishing on it.
Do not set excessive watering at their surroundings, and control the sewage water of outdoor showers; pools use to have specific regulations (at least here). The excessive presence of water around swimming pools may be even a more popular cause of heave/ground washing/soil disruption than pool's leakage, with similar consequences.
RE: how to design a swimming pool?
Will this be an in-ground pool or an above ground pool.
If it is above ground will it be supported directly by soil or will it be supported by floor or roof framing.
Will the pool be constructed from wood, metal or concrete...
Also what is the proposed depth of the pool.
RE: how to design a swimming pool?
designengraust....you need to get someone locally to help you to learn the process of designing swimming pools. It isn't something you can learn from a few posts in a forum.
RE: how to design a swimming pool?
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
RE: how to design a swimming pool?
but if your looking for a some reading on the topic:
AS1838 and AS2783.
When in doubt, just take the next small step.
RE: how to design a swimming pool?
If it is domestic, then use the residential swimming pool code, if it is commercial then technically you need to use the liquid retaining structures code.
The walls are designed similar to a retaining wall with soil/water loads as applicable. You also have to limit rebar stresses to minimise cracking.
Good luck.
RE: how to design a swimming pool?
I've had pool contractors come to me, wanting me to be "their structural engineer for all their pools", but I think they just want a fall guy if something goes wrong. They also cannot understand why you won't sign & seal their own designs, since they've been "successfully building them that way for years". Don't fall for it. If you're really serious about getting into the pool design business, you better learn your stuff, and stick to your guns when it comes to proper design.
By the way, I tried to research the subject on several occasions, and was unable to find good design guideance I was confortable with.
RE: how to design a swimming pool?
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RE: how to design a swimming pool?
RE: how to design a swimming pool?
http://www.apsp.org/
Also Architectural Graphic Standards has some preliminary guidelines, they are based on the APSP Standards.