Professional Watershaping
The most beautiful bodies of man-made water aren’t worth much without the people who maintain them. The profound importance, and enduring nature, of the traditional independent pool service industry was on Eric Herman’s mind as he attended this year’s, forty fifth edition of the Western Pool & Spa Show.
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Watershape University supports industry professionals across a spectrum of informational needs and topics. As the busy season approaches, with companies expanding their staff, WU online, on-demand programs are at the ready to ensure your staff is prepared to perform at the highest possible level.
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Embracing change is not always easy, it can take courage, foresight, wisdom and sometimes luck. Veteran watershaper, Kevin Woodhurst has been through many such passages in his long career, but perhaps none more rewarding than a recent move to a new home and into a new chapter.
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RB Retail and Service Solutions (Monroeville, PA) now offers a fully integrated construction software solution that is designed specifically for pool and outdoor living builders. This unique module tracks construction costs, inventory, and the actual progress of each job – with customizable notes, enabling builders to track the ongoing costs of construction work, and the physical progress of the project with job progress management. Learn more here.
Designing spaces for human use -- especially those of the recreational variety -- starts by understanding that the primary goal is to generate a positive emotional response, regardless of style, the size of the property or the client’s budget. That’s why Mike Farley considers the ways that different spatial configurations make his clients feel.
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In its ongoing efforts to meet the industry’s demand for top-shelf education and training, Watershape University has come out strong in the first quarter of the year, and is now set for a tour de force set of offerings later this month.
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As office property owners and operators seek fresh ways to entice workers back to the workplace post-pandemic, a team of architects and designers have completed renovating an extraordinary mustang fountain at the Towers at Williams Square in Irving, TX. The result is spectacular.
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There’s much more to making a perimeter overflow detail work than meets the eye. What looks like a thin slot at the edge of the water surface conceals the gutter and required plumbing below. This detail shows the dropouts, main drainage line and the snorkel detail necessary for reducing noise from air being sucked into the system.
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Four years in the making, this Ohio project gave Jerry Hammerschmidt and his staff at High-Tech Pools an opportunity to execute at the highest possible level, both in terms of design collaboration, and construction. Here he pulls back the curtain on a project that deftly blends modern and classic motifs in a uniquely luxurious estate setting.
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WU has announced a new training program for watershape service professionals. Designed to support commercial service licensing and education, the course is also aimed at elevating the work of residential service companies with WU’s unique brand of quality instruction.
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