Pool in Arendal Guest Harbor, Photo: Aquarious AS
About
AQUARIOUS designs and manufactures swimming pools to private and public clients. Our pools can be made in any size or shape, and are made in robust, environmental-friendly and durable materials requiring a minimum of maintenance.
The AQUARIOUS team was instrumental in the development and fabrication of the first floating pool in Norway, which was installed in the City of Arendal in 2016. The prototype pool in composite materials is the first of its kind in the World. Together with our key partners, AQUARIOUS has now developed the next generation of composite pools, with significant improvements compared to the prototype, giving our clients increased quality and flexibility.
AQUARIOUS can offer pool solutions on a turn-key basis, where our standard pools are designed to comply with international standards such as FINA. We can also build pools taylor-made to your specific needs. Feel free to contact us if you see an opportunity for our pool solutions in your area.
Outdoor swimming is better
Outdoor swimming in warm water is cool, fun and comfortable, and we offer pools that can be placed either onshore or floating in the sea. Our floating pool solutions can hence be installed in city centres, without any high cost for the land or for property development, and can be a great step towards generating more activity in the city and at the same time increase public health and swimming ability.
Based on our flexible technology platform for pools and floating buildings, it is basically just imagination that limits what such a floating facility can contain. With a module-based approach, each facility can be made unique, and become a tailormade attraction for citizens and visitors. We know that increased swimming ability is a life-saver, and we see it as an imortant task for us to make low-cost and popular swimming pools more available to kids in cities all over the World. Our pools are lightweight, and can be shipped to any port.
Outdoor swimming provides the user with natural, fresh air, without costly air circulation and air conditioning as required for indoor facilities. Outdoor swimming is actually proven to be better from a health perspective.
Outdoor pools will require less energy for heating. All walls and bottom are well insulated, and heat loss and vaporization to air is kept at a mimimum with a solid motorized cover that is activted as soon as the pool closes.
Outdoor pools will also cost just a fraction of indoor pools.
FRP is the ideal material
We use fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites as our primary construction material, characterized by a reduced carbon footprint compared to similar solutions in concrete and/or steel. Combined with a design life of +100 years, the lifecycle carbon footprint becomes very favorable.
Our pools are corrosion-free, and easy to maintain.
Our pools are very light and strong, making them easy to transport, install or later relocate.
Our pools are built in sandwich material, with a thick foam core and strong fiber laminate on both sides. The foam is made out of PET, which is basically re-cycled plastic bottles. The foam core is also a fantastic insulator, resulting in marginal heat loss between the warm water inside the pool and any cold air/water outside the pool.
Solutions
Floating pools
We supply floating swimming pools of any size. Our floating pools will be delivered fully assembled and equipped from the factory, on a plug-and-play basis with simple interfaces.
Onshore pools
We supply indoor or outdoor land-based pools in any size, from simple training pools to full-size competition pools. Our onshore pools are supplied in modules that are assembled locally.
Floating pools
Onshore pools - The Swim-pit
Team
Claes W. Olsen
CEO
Claes is the founder and CEO in AQUARIOUS. He is a naval architect/marine engineer, with a MSc. degree from NTH in 1990. He has worked +25 years in the offshore energy industry, mainly with project management, product- and business development on a global basis. Claes was project manager for the first floating pool built in Norway, and has since 2016 been active in development of composite pools and other solutions.
Torstein Syvertsen
Project manager
Torstein is managing bids and projects in AQUARIOUS. He has degrees both as a structural engineer as well as an economist. He has been working with project management tasks for private and public property developments for more than 15 years.
Sam C. Syvertsen
Finance and admin
Sam is our finance and administration resource. He has a masters degree in finance and extensive experience from companies in energy-, manufacturing- and finance-sector. He has managed finance-, accounting-, sales- and manufacturing-functions.
Karl Marius Norschau
Senior designer
Karl Marius was responsible for design and solutions for the first floating pool in Norway. He has a degree as an industrial designer, and has worked more than 15 years with design and construction of numerous crafts built in composites, including free-fall lifeboats and autonomous vessels, and is very familiar with stringent requirements related to quality, finish and robustness.
Partners
CSUB is a composites manufacturing company which since 2003 has been involved in development, engineering and construction of composite solutions to the oil & gas industry (subsea), aquaculture industry (tanks and process plants), renewable industry as well as onshore construction industry (bridges, floating pool and buildings). CSUB fabricated the first floating pool in Norway, and is the majority shareholder in AQUARIOUS.
FiReCo has more than 30 years of experience from design and engineering of large composite constructions, where the company now has earned a position as the leading company in Europe. Their reference list includes military vessels up to 60m length, numerous high-speed vessels for passenger transportation, subsea constructions, fish farms onshore and offshore, and infrastructure elements such as bridges.