Commentaries, Interviews & Profiles
The MAHC covers a spectrum of critical issues for aquatic facilities, including design, lifeguarding, and facility operation. Here in Part II of our look into the code’s fine points, Dewey Case, technical director for the Council for the MAHC, explores key areas within the code aimed at giving facility owners and managers tools needed for sustained success and safety.
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Swimming pools and other types of watershapes encompass a range of issues that are specific to structures that contain water. Inspecting them as part of real estate transactions, and for several other purposes, requires specific expertise and a systematized methods of recording and reporting inspection results.
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As both a medical professional dedicated to helping patients find a path to healing, and a member of the watershaping industry focused on providing systems that generate current in pools and lazy rivers, Denise Canchola de Tournillon has built a unique career, over the past 25 years, in which water is a unifying element.
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Although they’ve been around for decades, waterparks remain a dynamic and innovative industry focused on delivering a spectrum of aquatic experiences to consumers of all ages. After more than 25 years in the business, Craig Nielsen has had a front-row seat to the evolution, and he’s says with confidence, waterparks are only at the beginning.
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There is no place quite the like the sewers of Paris. Beginning with the very notion that a sewer could be the subject of wonder and fascination is counterintuitive, but when you take the trip below the streets, what watershaping mastery is both surprising and inspiring.
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Master pool builder, Dave Penton, shares why charging higher prices in swimming pool construction comes down to precision, professionalism, and uncompromising attention to detail. From excavation and steel installation to plumbing, shotcrete, finishes, and equipment layout, Penton explains how discipline and lifelong learning justify premium pricing.
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For pool service companies working in seasonal markets, spring is the busiest time of year. Long Island’s Julie Kazdin, welcomes the surge in activity after spending the winter planning, regrouping and educating staff. When the sun finally returns, her company springs into action preparing clients’ pools for the warmth and fun that lies just ahead.
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California has always been on the leading edge of change and innovation. The changes made today will make a difference in how things like pool and spa heating is designed, installed and serviced tomorrow, says Huntington Beach service veteran Robert H. Foutz Jr..
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At age 29, Marcus Hampton has been running his own custom home and watershaping design and build firm for eight years. And, as he explains in this discussion about the industry’s new generation of aspiring professionals, in many ways, he and his contemporaries are just getting started.
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