8th International Conference on Swimming Pool and Spa

Mon. 18

Tue. 19

Wed. 20

Thu. 21

Fri. 22

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Technical visit

14:00 - 18:00 (4h)

Technical visit

Registration

18:00 - 19:00 (1h)

Registration

Registration at the first floor of the Convention City Centre building

Cocktail

19:00 - 21:00 (2h)

Cocktail

Agora

Registration

8:30 - 9:30 (1h)

Registration

Agora - First floor of the Convention City Centre building

Opening Gala

9:30 - 10:00 (30min)

Opening Gala

Nouméa

Coffee break

10:00 - 10:30 (30min)

Coffee break

Agora

Chemical risks (Session 1)

10:30 - 12:30 (2h)

Chemical risks (Session 1)

Nouméa

Tarek MANASFI & Polonca TREBSE

› KEYNOTE LECTURE : OPTIMIZATION OF AIR QUALITY IN CHLORINATED, INDOOR SWIMMING POOL FACILITIES - Ernest Blatchley III, Purdue University [West Lafayette] 10:30-11:10 (40min)

› CYANOGEN CHLORIDE IN SWIMMING POOL WATER - Lothar Erdinger, University of Heidelberg, Dep. for Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Heidelberg, Germany 11:10-11:30 (20min)

› IDENTIFICATION OF AVOBENZONE BY-PRODUCTS FORMED BY VARIOUS DISINFECTANTS IN DIFFERENT SWIMMING POOL WATERS - Polonca Trebse, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) 11:30-11:50 (20min)

› DISINFECTION OF SWIMMING POOL WATER WITH CHLORINE GAS GENERATED IN SITU BY SALT ELECTROLYSIS AND ITS EFFECT ON CHLORATE AND PERCHLORATE CONCENTRATIONS - Alexander Reuss, Ospa Apparatebau Pauser GmbH & Co. KG 11:50-12:10 (20min)

› THE OCCURRENCE OF TRIHALOMETHANES IN RECREATIONAL WATER IN TULKARM DISTRICT, PALESTINE - Amer Kanan, Al-Quds University 12:10-12:30 (20min)

Lunch

12:30 - 14:00 (1h30)

Lunch

Removal of contaminants (Session 1)

14:00 - 15:40 (1h40)

Removal of contaminants (Session 1)

Nouméa

Christiane HÖLLER & Maarten KEUTEN

› KEYNOTE LECTURE : THE INFLUENCE OF UV ON SWIMMING POOL CONTAMINANTS - Maarten Keuten, Delft University of Technology 14:00-14:40 (40min)

› MAKING POOL WATER WATER SAFER? USING COPPER/SILVER ELECTROLYSIS DISINFECTANT TO REDUCE DBP FORMATION - Joshua Allen, University of South Carolina [Columbia] 14:40-15:00 (20min)

› MICROBIAL INACTIVATION, DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCTS FORMATION AND MICROPOLLUTANT REMOVAL DURING THE APPLICATION OF UVOX REDOX® TREATMENT IN SWIMMING POOL WATER - Maria Jose Farre, Instituto Catalán de Investigación del Agua - ICRA (SPAIN) 15:00-15:20 (20min)

› DISINFECTION EFFICIENCY IN TROPICAL-CLIMATE SWIMMING POOLS: CASE STUDY OF PISCILAGO WATER PARK, GIRARDOT - COLOMBIA - Diana Vega, Universidad de Cundinamarca & Yuly Sanchez, Escuela Colombiana de ingeniería 15:20-15:40 (20min)

Refreshment

15:40 - 16:10 (30min)

Refreshment

Agora

Health and safety issues

16:10 - 17:30 (1h20)

Health and safety issues

Nouméa

Vincent HILL & Ciska SCHETS

› KEYNOTE LECTURE : AQUATICS 2030 IN THE UNITED STATES: FACILITATING A SYSTEMS-BASED APPROACH TO IMPROVING AQUATIC HEALTH AND SAFETY IN A DE-CENTRALIZED REGULATORY LANDSCAPE - Michael Beach, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 16:10-16:50 (40min)

› KEYNOTE LECTURE : DBP EXPOSURE AND HEALTH RISKS AMONG SWIMMERS - Cristina Villanueva, Barcelona Institute for Global Health 16:50-17:30 (40min)

Registration

8:30 - 9:00 (30min)

Registration

Agora - First floor of the Convention City Centre Building

Microbiological risks (Session 1)

9:00 - 10:30 (1h30)

Microbiological risks (Session 1)

Nouméa

Athena MAVRIDOU & Rachel CHALMERS

› KEYNOTE LECTURE : CRYPTOSPORIDIUM IN SWIMMING POOL WATERS - Karanis Panagiotis, University of Cologne 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› INFECTIVE RISK FROM ACANTHAMOEBA AND ADENOVIRUS IN SWIMMING POOLS: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE - Lucia Bonadonna, Istituto Superiore di Sanita [Rome] - Rossella Briancesco, Istituto Superiore di Sanita [Rome] - Anna Maria Coccia, Istituto Superiore di Sanita [Rome] - Simonetta Della Libera, Istituto Superiore di Sanita [Rome] - Giuseppina La Rosa, Istituto Superiore di Sanita [Rome] 09:30-09:50 (20min)

› POTENTIAL TRANSMISSION PATHWAYS OF CLINICALLY RELEVANT FUNGI IN INDOOR SWIMMING POOL FACILITIES - Ciska Schets, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment 09:50-10:10 (20min)

› ABUNDANCE OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT BACTERIA IN HOTEL POOLS AND SPA FACILITIES - Daniela Köck, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Dep. for Hygiene 10:10-10:30 (20min)

Coffee break - Poster session

10:30 - 11:00 (30min)

Coffee break - Poster session

Agora

Chemical risks (Session 2)

11:00 - 12:50 (1h50)

Chemical risks (Session 2)

Nouméa

Henrik R. ANDERSEN & Haipu LI

› KEYNOTE LECTURE : DISINFECTION BYPRODUCTS IN SWIMMING POOL, CHEMICAL RISK AND CONTROL STRATEGY - Shakhawat Chowdhury, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› OCCURRENCE OF DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCTS IN SWIMMING POOLS OF A DEVELOPING CITY, CHINA - Haipu Li, Central-South University 11:30-11:50 (20min)

› COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE INDOOR AIR QUALITY IN A CHLORINATED OLYMPIC-SIZE SWIMMING POOL - Fátima Felgueiras, Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 11:50-12:10 (20min)

› BROMINATED DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCTS IN SWIMMING POOL WATER - Lothar Erdinger, University of Heidelberg, Dep. for Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology and Hygiene 12:10-12:30 (20min)

› FORMATION OF DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCTS FROM BODY FLUID ANALOGUES IN CHLORINATED SEAWATER - Tarek Manasfi, Aix Marseille University 12:30-12:50 (20min)

Lunch

12:50 - 14:00 (1h10)

Lunch

Removal of contaminants (Session 2)

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

Removal of contaminants (Session 2)

Nouméa

Wolfgang UHL & Maria José FARRE

› Keynote lecture : DBP-CONTROL THROUGH WATER TREATMENT PROCESSES - Wolfgang Uhl, Norwegian Institute for Water Research 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› COMPARISON OF HEAD-LOSSES AND CUTOFF SIZES OF THREE GRANULAR MEDIA USED FOR THE FILTRATION OF PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL WATER. A LAB SCALE STUDY. - CHLOE FLEITH, ETHIS 14:30-14:50 (20min)

› OPERATION AND EFFICIENCY CHARACTERISATION OF SWIMMING-POOL WATER FILTRATION - Carinne Mangeruca, GACHES Chimie 14:50-15:10 (20min)

› ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF HALL RENOVATION ON CHLORINATION BY-PRODUCTS FORMATION AND TRANSFER IN A PILOT POOL UNIT - Lucie Tsamba, Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment [Nantes] 15:10-15:30 (20min)

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Coffee break

Agora

Flash Poster session

16:00 - 18:00 (2h)

Flash Poster session

Rome-Stockholm-Shanghai

Bruno COULOMB & Kamilla KAARSHOLM

› AQUEOUS TRANSFORMATION OF SELECTED MICROPOLLUTANTS IN OUTDOOR AND INDOOR SWIMMING POOLS - Edyta Kudlek, Silesian University of Technology 16:00-18:00 (2h)

› CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS IN POOL WATERS: RISK ASSESSMENT FOR HUMAN HEALTH - Gugliemina Fantuzzi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia 16:00-18:00 (2h)

› DEVELOPMENT OF A SIMPLE PROCEDURE FOR TRIHALOMETHANES MEASUREMENT IN SWIMMING POOL WATER SAMPLES - Rana CHEHAB, Aix-Marseille University 16:00-18:00 (2h)

› EFFECTIVENESS AND SAFETY OF UV-RADIATION TREATMENT IN SWIMMING-POOL - Carole Catastini, French agency for food, environmental and occupational health and safety 16:00-18:00 (2h)

› ENERGY USE AND INDOOR AIR QUALITY IN NORWEGIAN SWIMMING POOL FACILITIES - Therese Bergh Nitter, NTNU 16:00-18:00 (2h)

› FACTORS INFLUENCING THE CONTENT OF THMs AND COMBINED CHLORINE IN SWIMMING POOL WATER - Joanna Wyczarska-Kokot, Silesian University of Technology 16:00-18:00 (2h)

› FORMATION OF DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCTS DURING CHLORINATION OF NITROGENOUS COMPOUNDS - Fangyuan Peng, Central-South University - Haipu Li, Central-South University 16:00-18:00 (2h)

› IMPACT OF TWO DIFFERENT STRIPPING DEVICES ON THE TRICHLORAMINE AND CHLOROFORM CONCENTRATIONS IN SWIMMING POOL WATER - Fabien Gerardin, Institut national de recherche et de sécurité (Vandoeuvre lès Nancy) 16:00-18:00 (2h)

› INFLUENCE OF SWIMMING POOL WATER RECIRCULATION REGIME ON STAPHYLOCOCCUS SPECIES CONCENTRATION AT SUBSURFACE - Sébastien Labarthe, Institut du Thermalisme 16:00-18:00 (2h)

› OCCURRENCE OF ENTERIC VIRUSES AND FREE LIVING AMOEBAE IN SWIMMING POOLS AND SPA, ROME 2015-2018 - Lucia Bonadonna, Istituto Superiore di Sanità 16:00-18:00 (2h)

› POTENTIAL OF ORGANIC MICROPOLLUTANTS EMISSION FROM SWIMMING ACCESSORIES INTO POOL WATER - Anna Lempart, Silesian University of Technology 16:00-18:00 (2h)

› THE IMPACT OF HUMAN BODY FLUIDS LEVELS ON DBPs FORMATION IN SWIMMING POOLS - Bilgehan Ilker Harman, Isparta University of Applied Science 16:00-18:00 (2h)

› THERMAL WATER QUALITY : STATE OF THE ART - Yuli SANCHEZ, Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito 16:00-18:00 (2h)

› ULTRAFILTRATION OF SWIMMING POOL WATER FOR CONTROLLING PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA RE-GROWTH - ERICA LEONI, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna 16:00-18:00 (2h)

Social event

18:00 - 20:30 (2h30)

Social event

Registration

8:30 - 9:00 (30min)

Registration

Agora - First floor of the Convention City Centre

Microbiological risks (Session 2)
Coffee break - Poster session

9:00 - 10:20 (1h20)

Microbiological risks (Session 2)

Nouméa

Panagiotis KARANIS & Lucia BONADONNA

› OUTBREAKS ASSOCIATED WITH TREATED RECREATIONAL WATER — UNITED STATES, 2000–2014 - Michele Hlavsa, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› RΕSISTANCE PROFILES OF E. coli ISOLATES DERIVING FROM TWO CENTRAL SWIMMING POOLS OF ATHENS IN GREECE - Chrysa Dioli, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece 09:30-09:50 (20min)

› FILTRATE AS SOURCE FOR LEGIONELLA IN POOL WATER - A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF AN EXTENSIVE DATASET - Wolfgang Uhl, Norwegian Institute for Water Research 09:50-10:10 (20min)

10:10 - 10:40 (30min)

Coffee break - Poster session

Agora

On-line and off-line measurement of air and water quality

10:40 - 12:20 (1h40)

On-line and off-line measurement of air and water quality

Nouméa

Fabien ROBERT-PEILLARD & Emanuele FERRETTI

› Keynote Lecture : ADVANCES IN MICROBIOTA KNOWLEDGE AND NGS TECHNOLOGIES: PERSPECTIVES FOR SURVEILLANCE IN RECREATIONAL WATERS - Vincenzo Romano Spica, Università Degli Studi di Roma 10:40-11:20 (40min)

› VALIDATION AND APPLICATION OF CRYPTOSPORIDIUM ASSAYS FOR SWIMMING POOL WATERS AND FILTER BACKWASH - Rachel Chalmers, Public Health Wales Microbiology, Cryptosporidium Reference Unit 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR THE ANALYSIS OF INORGANIC CHLORAMINES IN SWIMMING POOLS - Rana CHEHAB, Laboratoire chimie de l'environnement 11:40-12:00 (20min)

› AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO MEASURE CHLORINE BASED ON A FOOD COMPATIBLE CHEMICAL - Kamilla Kaarsholm, Technical University of Denmark 12:00-12:20 (20min)

Lunch

12:20 - 14:00 (1h40)

Lunch

Guidelines and regulations
Coffee break - Poster session

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Guidelines and regulations

Nouméa

Janice CALVERT & Michael J. BEACH

› SURF POOLS AND ARTIFICIAL WHITEWATER VENUES : ARE PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCIES PREPARED TO CATCH THE WAVE? - Vincent Hill, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW FRENCH LEGISLATION ON SWIMMING POOLS MANAGEMENT - Marie Guichard, French Ministry of Solidarities and Health 14:30-14:50 (20min)

› ASSESSMENT OF THE INDOOR AIR QUALITY IN 20 SWIMMING POOLS LOCATED IN THE NORTH REGION OF PORTUGAL - Marta Fonseca Gabriel, Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 14:50-15:10 (20min)

› WASTEWATER HEAT RECOVERY TO WARM SWIMMING POOL WATERS - Lionel Stora, Société des Eaux de Marseille Provence Métropole 15:10-15:30 (20min)

› THE MICROBIOLOGICAL WATER QUALITY IN PUBLIC SWIMMING PONDS - Ciska Schets, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment 15:30-15:50 (20min)

15:50 - 16:20 (30min)

Coffee break - Poster session

Agora

Gala Dinner

20:00 - 23:55 (3h55)

Gala Dinner

Chemically untreatable waters (natural-biological ponds/thermal-therapaeutic pools)

9:30 - 10:30 (1h)

Chemically untreatable waters (natural-biological ponds/thermal-therapaeutic pools)

Nouméa

Daniela KÖCK & Vincenzo ROMANO SPICA

› NATURAL SWIMMING PONDS EXPERIENCE IN ITALY: AUTONOUMOUS PROVINCE OF TRENTO CASE STUDY - Emanuele Ferretti, Italian Institute of Health 09:30-09:50 (20min)

› BIO-MINERAL FILTRATION: A TECHNOLOGY FOR A NEXT GENERATION OF BIO-POOL (RESIDENTIAL TO PUBLIC) AT REDUCED RUNNING COSTS - Frederic LUIZI, Aquatic Science SA 09:50-10:10 (20min)

› UNTOUCHABILITY OF SPA THERMAL WATERS: STATE OF THE ART AND PERSPECTIVES FOR TREATMENT AND MONITORING WITHIN A PERSONALIZED WATER SAFETY PLAN - Federica Valeriani, University of Rome "Foro Italico" 10:10-10:30 (20min)

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00 (30min)

Coffee break

Agora

Open discussion

11:00 - 12:00 (1h)

Open discussion

Nouméa

Closing ceremony

12:00 - 12:30 (30min)

Closing ceremony

Nouméa

Lunch

12:30 - 13:30 (1h)

Lunch

Nautical event

14:00 - 18:00 (4h)

Nautical event