'When you work with someone in a cooperative effort to achieve a common goal,' wrote Curt Straub in a trailblazing article in October 1999, 'the odds are greatly reduced that you will wind up one day facing that person in a courtroom. 'The neat thing about this form of cooperation, also known in business circles as partnering, is that it can do much more than keep you off your lawyer's time clock. In fact, partnering is something that all of us in the industry can
Campania International (Pennsburg, PA) produces the Del Rey Fountain in cast stone. The product –…
Pentair (Sanford, NC) has introduced the Aurora 3800, a single-stage, end-suction commercial pump with capacities…
S.R. Smith (Canby, OR) manufactures the Destination Lounger. Designed for light weight and durability, the…
Bobé Water & Fire (Phoenix, AZ) now offers the Builder Series, which combines water and…
Water Odyssey (San Marcos, TX) has released Mushroom Maze, a spray feature for splash pads…
Hayward Pool Products (Elizabeth, NJ) has launched the AquaVac 6 Series of robotic pool cleaners.…
'Until quite recently,' declared Brian Van Bower in opening his October 2009 Aqua Culture column, 'it was difficult to find too many people in the watershaping industry who were willing to say much about "going green." 'For a while now, I've thought that was a mistake: It's been manifestly clear for several years that practices and programs related to energy conservation, water conservation and an overall sense of environmental responsibility are here to stay, and I always think it's better to
It's the nature of the game: One of the great sources of pride for any good watershaping business has to do with its ability to find solutions to difficult challenges - a new way to achieve something familiar when the established or conventional approach won't work, for example, or dealing with site constraints that repeatedly send you back to the drawing board. That's the sort of pride we had coming out of our work on the Arthur J. Will Memorial Fountain and its accompanying splash pad at Grand Park in Los Angeles, and it was intensified by the fact that this was the restoration of a 60-year-old fountain that had originally been built with an entirely different approach from anything we'd consider today - but whose physical constraints we couldn't
