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Surf infrastructure · United Kingdom & Europe

Rideable waves in water that already exists.

Surf X develops surf lagoons inside working water bodies — and engineers the energy that runs them. No excavation. No new lake. A fraction of the capital, and a build measured in months.

Licence: Exclusive UK & EU — SwellSpot
Delivery: Skyline DC Group — main contractor
Status: Pilot in development

01 — The model

The expensive part of a surf park has nothing to do with surfing.

Conventional surf parks spend most of their capital before a single wave is made — excavating a basin, laying car parks, building visitor centres, buying land. Several of the sector's flagship venues have closed or entered administration. Not for want of demand. Because that capital structure could not be serviced.

Existing water

The system installs into lakes, reservoirs and basins already in operation. The water, the access, the parking and the visitor base are there and already paid for.

Engineered wave

Plunger-driven swell shaped by submerged reef geometry. Tunable across ability levels, from a soft learning section to a hollow performance peak, on the same water.

Reversible

Floating containment and inflatable reef structures. The installation can be adjusted seasonally, relocated, or removed entirely — which changes the conversation with a landowner.

The water body, the access and the visitor base already exist. The system adds a plunger array, submerged reef geometry and floating containment — and can be removed again.

02 — The advantage

Most promoters hold a licence. We can also build it.

Wave technology is the easy part to acquire. What usually stalls a surf venue is everything around it — main contracting, groundworks, buildings, grid connection, and the energy cost that follows the venue for the next twenty years. We hold those under one roof rather than assembling them per project.

01Main contractor, not a brokerCommercial and industrial construction delivered turn-key — clubhouse, changing, groundworks, services and site works — by a contractor that builds warehouses and laboratories for a living.
02Energy designed with the wave, not after itGeneration, storage and controls sized against the wave system's real load profile before the grid connection is specified. Energy is the largest controllable line on a surf venue's operating statement and the one nobody designs for.
03Lower reserved capacityA plunger array is a peaky load. On-site generation and storage flatten it, which changes the connection required and every charge that follows from it.
04Reportable carbonLandowners are increasingly charities, trusts and public bodies with reporting obligations. A venue arriving with its own carbon position is a different conversation.

Delivered with

Skyline DC Group

A multi-discipline main contractor based in Wheatley, Oxford, working across commercial and industrial construction, refurbishment and fit-out, and energy.

Skyline DC — main contractor for commercial and industrial new build, turn-key across any scale of development.

Skyline DC Energy — hybrid energy hubs combining CHP, solar PV, battery storage, heat pumps and smart controls, sized to a measured load profile rather than sold as a product.

Their discipline is feasibility-led: model the mechanism, and mark every figure indicative until formal study confirms it. That is the standard we hold our own wave numbers to.

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A plunger array draws in bursts. Left unmanaged, the reserved grid capacity — and the charge that comes with it — is set by the highest peak of the day. Generation and storage flatten the profile presented to the grid. Illustrative of the mechanism, not a specific site.

03 — The group

Three parties. Clear roles.

Surf X Group holds the technology licence and leads development. Delivery is structured through partners who are specialists in their own right rather than subcontractors.

Technology

SwellSpot

Originator of the plunger wave system. Surf X Group holds the exclusive licence for the United Kingdom and European Union.

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Delivery & energy

Skyline DC Group

Oxford-based main contractor. Commercial and industrial construction, fit-out, and a specialist energy division delivering solar, storage and hybrid hubs.

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Development

Surf X Group Ltd

Licence holder, site development, wave design and operator partnerships across the UK and Europe.

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Four layers, three parties, one contractual chain. Venue operation is run by an appointed operating team at each site.

Affiliated

Isis Aqua SkiWater-ski and wakeboard club — session booking → Surf X MediaFilm, stills and project media library →

04 — Programme

One site proves it. The rest follow the proof.

Our first installation is in development at a UK inland water venue. It exists to produce something the sector has never had: a published set of operating numbers for a low-capital surf lagoon on existing water.

Beyond that, the constraint on rollout is not capital. Operators who already hold water — watersports centres, marinas, country parks, holiday operators, local authorities — fund their own installation. We supply the technology, the design, the wave tuning and the operating model.

Site criteria

What makes a candidate

—Existing water body of sufficient area and depth
—Established parking, access and visitor facilities
—A catchment population within a comfortable drive
—An operator already running the site day to day
—Grid capacity, or space for on-site generation

If you hold water that fits, we would like to hear from you.

05 — Principal

Built by someone who rides, and someone who delivers infrastructure.

Scott Graham

Founder, Surf X Group Ltd

Around a decade developing accessible surf infrastructure for the UK, holding the exclusive UK and EU licence for SwellSpot wave technology. Alongside Surf X, three years in business development at Skyline DC Group, the Oxford main contractor, working across its energy division — CHP, solar, battery storage and microgrids for industrial and commercial clients. That is where the energy-integrated approach comes from, and why the delivery route is a working relationship rather than an introduction.

Board involvement with a UK inland watersports venue, an active wake surfer, and a background in photojournalism and media before either. The combination is deliberate: surf venues fail on operating economics far more often than on wave quality, and the operating economics are mostly energy, staffing and utilisation.

Day-to-day operation of a live venue is a specialist job and will be run by an appointed operating team, with Surf X retaining development, technology and design.

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06 — Contact

If you hold water, operate a venue, or fund infrastructure — let's talk.

We work with landowners and operators on site suitability, and with investors and partners on delivery. Technical detail and commercial terms are shared under NDA.

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