EXPERT ADVICE

Using water as a design element

Most people have had the pleasure of walking in the woods and enjoying the beauty of a natural stream, meandering river or magnificent waterfall. These natural water features share a number...
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TECHNOLOGY

Technology offers endless design possibilities for packaged pool kits

For much of their history, steel swimming pool kits were manufactured like cookie cutters. Manufacturers would typically offer a few different shapes—square, rectangle, oval, or octagonal—in a couple of different sizes, with a handful of choices for steps. The homeowner simply picked one from a book and that was that. Without the advantage of today’s technology, each steel panel had to be cut and bent by hand as manufacturers simply did not have the staff to complete all of the labour-intensive customization.
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CASE STUDIES

Dehumidification technology

Sesame Street’s Kermit the Frog may have had a point when he sang, ‘It’s not easy being green.’ In the past, this may have also been true for indoor pools, as designers, developers and managers wrestled with how to cost-effectively operate and maintain comfortable indoor conditions for patrons in...
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