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Reflecting Pools from Bradford Products
Bradford Products (Leland, NC) makes WaterFX Reflecting Pools for both residential and commercial applications. Designed…
First Impressions
Projects in significant public spaces are rewarding on many levels, but they also carry their fair share of challenges, mostly in the forms of scheduling, coordination and communication. For us at Crystal Fountains (Concord, Ontario, Canada), these hurdles are beyond familiar:  For decades, we've been a go-to working partner for fountain and interactive waterfeature projects around the world, from the Crown Fountain
S.R. Smith Launches TX-30 Pool Lighting System
S.R. Smith (Canby, OR) has introduced the TX-30 LED Pool Lighting Kit – a complete…
Keys to Cost Reduction
With any facility more than a few years old, it's easy to help watershape managers and operators find ways to save money.  All it takes, writes Mike Fowler, is some inside knowledge and a laptop computer equipped with cost-calculating software.
2016/3.2, March 16 — Three-Headed Ambition, Fountain Rehab, Pond Upgrade and more
THE ESSENTIAL E-NEWSLETTER FOR WATERSHAPE DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS March 16, 2016 www.watershapes.com FEATURE ARTICLE…
All Aboard!
In recent years, cities across the United States have found that restoring their old train stations is a great way to attract people and commerce to downtown districts that have seen better days.  These revitalization projects have picked up the pace in cities from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, and they seem to work best when old, original functions are preserved and mixed in with the new.That's precisely the direction that redevelopment of Denver's historic Union Station has taken:  The classic, Beaux Arts-style building, which opened in 1914, lost almost all of the
Bright Ideas
As becomes clear in watching this series of videos, pond installation involves a bunch of specialized skills, from working with the liner and circulation system to moving large rocks and, as we'll see soon, arranging aquatic plants.  But completing the project also involves a range of common job-site skills.  As we've seen time and again, for instance, you need to know how to measure, fit and glue pipes, and you also need to
Memory Lane
It’s not a story I tell very often, but my wife and I spent our honeymoon not in Hawaii, not in Paris, not even at Niagara Falls.  No, instead we went to Pittsburgh.  We’d scheduled our wedding for August dates without consulting my eastern relations, the principle among them my Aunt Genevieve, my own family’s matriarch and in all ways a formidable woman.  As it turned out, she’d scheduled
Hiding the ‘Uglies’
Beyond their ability to hold and circulate water, virtually all concrete watershapes have one more thing in common: Depending upon the size and complexity of the installation, their internal surfaces must be penetrated at a few points (and sometimes at many points) to move water from the