Martin Aquatic Launches Blue Mar Wellness™, Delivering Integrated Design and Supply Services for Thermal Spa Market

With nearly 40 years of serving the hospitality industry, Martin Aquatic is expanding its hydrothermal spa offerings with the debut of Blue Mar Wellness™, a new design and supply division that provides full wellness equipment capabilities. With comprehensive engineering and installation support, Blue Mar Wellness products range from traditional saunas, steam rooms, and cold plunges to treatment systems and centralized controls for greater operational efficiency.

“Martin Aquatic is no stranger to working in the hydrothermal spa market, with dozens of spas completed for resorts, country clubs, and multifamily residential,” said Josh Martin, President & Creative Director at Martin Aquatic. “Thanks to our recent development of patented water treatment systems and controls equipment, we can now bring these innovations along with our experienced portfolio to the spa industry as Blue Mar Wellness.”

Blue Mar Wellness is designed to be a comprehensive solution to the challenges that currently exist in the spa market, where there can be a significant gap of technical coordination between spa consultants and equipment suppliers. Our experienced engineers work alongside the full design team of owners, developers, architects, and spa consultants to coordinate complete systems that are customized to the project through mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and structural design and engineering. Blue Mar Wellness is now the sole consultant on the design team that can engineer both wellness treatment offerings and recirculated aquatic systems.

One of the unique aspects of Blue Mar Wellness is the equipment that runs each hydrothermal spa element. The products used by Blue Mar Wellness were developed as part of Martin Aquatic’s patented Blue Mar Basins® systems, which efficiently treat water for large multi-acre lagoons or other complex aquatic projects. From water filtration systems to electrical control systems to lighting and more innovations soon to be announced, these smart technologies deliver the best aquatic automation systems on the market, ensuring the health and safety of all guests in the spa environment with UL-listed and UL-compliant products.

Blue Mar Wellness offers a complete suite of hydrothermal products within individual spa “cabins,” including:
• Sauna
• Steam Room/Hammam
• Hot & Cold Plunge
• Experience Shower
• Hydrotherapy
• Vitality Pool
• Salt & Relaxation Room
• Snow Room/Ice Fountain

To efficiently operate these spa products, Blue Mar Wellness is tailoring its proprietary Blue Mar Basins equipment for this market, delivering a centralized controls system to clients for smoother and more efficient operation. With remote monitoring, clients can access their system online wherever they are, ensure that their programmed schedules are running, or change the settings during lower or higher capacity. These controls can also manage architectural, underwater, and environmental lighting systems together with audio/visual to create a total immersive wellness experience.

“What we are delivering to clients through Blue Mar Wellness will be much more comprehensive than what is currently seen in the marketplace,” said Diego Cordova, Martin Aquatic’s Vice President of Technical Direction. “From the initial design drawings and program development, through engineering and coordinated 3D Revit documentation, and then installation and commissioning, we are the owner’s technical support team throughout the process.”

The process doesn’t end after each wellness space is open to guests, as Blue Mar Wellness is available for clients to monitor their systems or provide additional support as they refine their operations. Because of its commitment to ensuring clients benefit from the best operational data and efficiencies, Blue Mar Wellness is in the process of constructing a working test spa near its offices in Orlando, Florida.

“Building our own Blue Mar Wellness facility will allow clients to experience for themselves how well these systems perform, while also improving on our technology,” said Alessandro Orio, Vice President of Blue Mar Basins. “We showed the same level of commitment at Blue Mar Basins when we built The Martin Aquatic Test Bay that has become our R&D lab for new aquatic innovations. We believe in this technology and will continue investing in the development of new innovations so that our clients can receive the best possible operational outcomes.”