Aquascape Offers Product and Application Drawings
Aquascape (St, Charles, Ill.) has announced the availability of more than 50 of its product…
Illuminating Benefits
It's a fact:  Those who own and operate commercial aquatic facilities spend a lot of time trying to find ways to keep costs under control.  From elaborate hotel pools to huge waterparks, it's all about finding money to reinvest in new programs and features - or a simple matter of keeping the doors open. In a recent article, I wrote about how the increasing use of
Thoroughly Modern
I followed a well-worn path when I started designing watershapes:  I acquired a drafting table and worked at gaining proficiency in the use of pencils, protractors, scales, squares, various templates, colored markers and a multiplicity of other drawing tools as a means of communicating design ideas to my clients. To this day, I have great admiration for those who work quickly and decisively with these tools, but about ten years ago I was introduced to an array of digital design systems - and I've been
#17: Rolled-Edge Spa
In decades past, comfort wasn't typically uppermost in mind when spas were being designed and built in conjunction with swimming pools.  Jet placements could be arbitrary, walls were almost always set at 90-degree angles to the seats and, perhaps least thoughtful of all, coping was set up pool-style, with grab edges that hit anyone tall enough to get on an amusement-park thrill ride somewhere in the back, shoulders or neck, making it difficult to relax and enjoy the experience. These days, fortunately,
2015/3.1, March 4 — Hot Water Comforts, Digital Dynamics, Efficient Lighting and more
THE ESSENTIAL E-NEWSLETTER FOR WATERSHAPE DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS March 4, 2015 www.watershapes.com DIGITAL DESIGN…
Clearing the Shelves
For the past six years - ever since that fateful day in the spring of 2009 when I decided that my offsite storage space was far too inconvenient to be worth the monthly cost - I've been surrounded in my office by floor-to-rafters shelving stacked with back issues of WaterShapes. I love the old magazines, and despite the fact everything we ever printed is now easily available online, I still
The Aquatic Quiz #21
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Emperor Aquatics Offers Tadpole UV Pond Filter
Emperor Aquatics (Pottstown, PA) makes the Tadpole UV Filter, a plumbing-free, completely submersible water-maintenance system…
Granite Fire Pits from Grand Effects
Grand Effects (Irvine, CA) has added granite fire pits to its list of products. Kits…
Hayward Announces New Universal H-Series Pool Heater
Hayward Pool Products (Elizabeth, NJ) has expanded its Universal H-Series gas heater line to include…