City of West Melbourne — Interactive Fountain and Splash Pad

Project Overview

West Melbourne Community Park at 3000 Minton Road includes an interactive splash pad among its public recreation amenities. BEED Engineering provided mechanical systems design for the interactive fountain and splash pad serving this City of West Melbourne park.

A splash pad is not a decorative fountain only. The visible spray features depend on a recirculating mechanical plant: pumps, filtration, treatment, valves, and controls housed in an equipment room. BEED’s assignment was that mechanical systems design for the City.

BEED also provided MEP engineering for a City of West Melbourne maintenance building.

The Challenge

Interactive water play has to stay safe, reliable, and serviceable in a public park. The mechanical plant has to turn a set of spray features on and off in a controlled sequence, keep the recirculated water filtered and treated, and remain accessible for municipal maintenance staff.

The design had to:

• Support interactive fountain and splash-pad features from a dedicated mechanical room
• Arrange piping, filtration, and valves so the system could be operated and serviced without shutting the park down more than necessary
• Coordinate controls so feature operation matched the intended play sequences
• Fit the equipment into a compact municipal building, not a commercial central plant

Those constraints are typical of municipal recreation work in West Melbourne and across Brevard County, where cities add public amenities that still need engineered building systems behind the scenes.

BEED Engineering's Scope

BEED provided mechanical systems design for the interactive fountain and splash pad, including:

• Mechanical design of the recirculation, filtration, and feature-control systems
• Engineering coordination for the equipment room layout, piping, and controls

This assignment was mechanical systems design. Full-building electrical and plumbing design for the park was not listed as part of this scope. Separate MEP engineering was provided for a City of West Melbourne maintenance building.

Engineering Solutions

The mechanical design organized the splash-pad plant as a serviceable equipment room. Recirculation piping, a filter vessel, isolation and feature valves, and treatment connections were arranged so operators could see and reach the equipment. A wall-mounted control panel with a display and disconnect provides the interface for running the interactive features and the associated pumps.

Feature manifolds and valves allow individual water effects to be isolated for maintenance without taking the entire pad out of service whenever a single nozzle or circuit needs work. Controls tie the mechanical equipment to the play sequences so the fountain and splash pad operate as an interactive system rather than a continuously running spray field.

The result is a municipal recreation amenity whose public face is the splash pad, and whose engineering is the mechanical plant that keeps that water moving, filtered, and under control.