Located in the seaside resort of Newquay, Hendra Holiday Park is a family run holiday park that has been run by the same family for over 50 years. On site, visitors will find the popular Oasis Fun Pools comprised of a 30m swimming pool with three water flumes, and a toddlers splash pool.

When it became apparent that their outdated and inefficient dehumidification system needed replacing the holiday park turned to locally based Apex Pool Engineers to find the right solution. For 25 years Cornwall based Apex Pool Engineers have built up an excellent reputation in the South West as an installer of top-quality pools with a specific expertise in the wet leisure of hotels and holidays parks. 

Due to the large areas of pool water and the requirement for effective dehumidification the decision was made to proceed with the installation of a Heatstar Taurus.  

Heatstar have become known as being the ‘go-to’ company when it comes to the successful dehumidification of large commercial pools with their Taurus EC range always offering the perfect solution. These Taurus systems are exclusively designed and manufactured for use in large municipal swimming pools and water leisure centres and offer humidity control, energy recovery, fresh air, variable rate ventilation, mechanical cooling and renewable energy heating solutions.

Heatstar’s sales and design team were able to create a special bespoke unit that was split in to eight sections to allow it to be lifted up onto the first-floor plant room and between two existing steel supports. Heatstar were able to provide the project’s structural engineers accurate details on the floor contact points of the Taurus to ensure the buildings floor reinforcement points suitably matched when the unit was in place. With the plant room offering limited space for the unit the Taurus was cleverly designed with one of the eight sections manufactured slightly smaller to ensure a perfect fit under an existing steel support.

The new Taurus unit incorporates cross flow recuperators allowing the unit to recover energy from the exhausted pool room air into the fresh air which in the long term will reduce running costs significantly for heating and enabling the park to save money.

The unit has also been designed in such a manner to be able to temporarily match the original airflows, allowing the unit to comply with existing duct sizes until further works. Once the ducting capacity is increased the airflows can be adjusted giving the park the option to run all year round should they wish. This is something they have not been able to do previously due to the insufficient airflows and heat recovery provided by the previous unit.

The unit was completed and delivered on time and with the pools closed for the winter season Apex Pool Engineers were able to take advantage of this quiet time and orchestrate a seamless install, with the added assistance of a dedicated Heatstar engineer to connect and assemble the eight sections of the Taurus together on site.

Alex Cole, Director of Apex Pool Engineers said ‘’Heatstar designed, manufactured, delivered and commissioned the Taurus system exactly as planned. We have installed many Heatstar products over the years and they are currently building further bespoke designs for us.

All credit to the team at Hendra Holiday Park, who coordinated all the other trades involved and we look forward to continuing our close working relationship with one of our oldest customers.’’