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The Seeing Eye Dog Association (SEDA) opened the new training facility after a 12-month renovation and the dogs are very happy in their upgraded facility. Kensington, Victoria
The Seeing Eye Dog Association (SEDA) opened the new training facility after a 12-month renovation and the dogs are very happy in their upgraded facility. Kensington, Victoria
Renovating a dog training centre
The Seeing Eye Dog Association SEDA was doing a renovation of their premises in Kensington. This is the centre that they train & house dogs for the visually impaired. They were expanding the number of dogs that could be housed and trained. They were upgrading the kennels (and increasing the number of kennels), building a wash bay and swimming pool.
Automatic cleaning system
We were lucky enough to work with the design team from the start to build a self-cleaning pool with a slight alteration….we had to build a ramp for the dogs to walk in and out of the pool. The Nexus technology with Compass Pools Australia was allowing us to customise these standard shape shells (we had them build the shell with a ‘cut out’ following a 1-100 slope or fall with a flat area). SEDA were able to get the huge benefit of an easy to maintain fibreglass swimming pool but with the benefit of customising to suit their unique needs – a feature that was traditionally only available in concrete pool design.
The dogs shed a lot of hair so even our Vantage self-cleaning system was able to cope with this heavy load. It was built with a salt chlorinator and the heating was a combination of solar heating with a heat pump. They needed to maintain 26 degrees all year round.
Working with the commercial contractor
During the build, we had to work with the commercial contractor who was building the kennels/wash bay and new training grounds and the swimming pool was only one part of the large project. The trickier part of the build was during the design phase – the ramp design (the fall and length) was based on the trainers practical understanding of how they work with the dogs and what they felt was needed – there was no ‘rule book’ to follow. They knew the dogs the best so we wanted to deliver the ramp suitable and easy for them to use whilst training.
We also had the pool raised higher and had to build up around the pool as they wanted to be able to have the pool sitting higher.