World Diving Trials held at FSU
By Matt Cappello on May 29, 2013
The 2013 World Championship team for the United States has been selected as USA Diving’s trials came to a close Monday, May 20th at...
Design-Bid-Build or Design-Build?
By Kevin Post on April 23, 2013
Communities responsible for the creation of a new swimming pool and natatorium are often faced with choosing between a conventional AIA protocol of design...
Will the Olympics Come Back to the US?
By Kevin Post on February 26, 2013
2024 is eleven years away but that hasn’t deterred the US Olympic Committee (USOC) from thinking about the future. After a two repeated failed...
Short and Long Span Pool Structures
By Scot Hunsaker on January 24, 2013
An indoor aquatic center is a building consisting of two or more rooms. One room is the natatorium, which contains one or more pools. ...
CannonDesign – Cost Trends
By Scot Hunsaker on December 20, 2012
As most of us know in the recreation design industry, CannonDesign is a multidisciplinary international design firm. Cannon's December newsletter focuses on economic trends...
Modern Swimming Pool Concrete and It’s Ancient Past
By Kevin Post on December 10, 2012
Beneath the water and under the plaster and tile finish lays the fundamental element in most swimming pools: concrete. It has been used to...
What To Do When Your Pool Leaks
By Joe Hunsaker on November 22, 2012
A leaking pool is a problem…for everybody. How do you find the leak or leaks, and then how do you fix the problem? Following...
ADA Update
By John Caden on November 12, 2012
The revision to the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law on July 26, 2010, published in the Federal Register on September 15,...
Built on Evidence
By Carl Nylander on November 8, 2012
The MAHC Facility Design & Construction Module aims to fill holes other codes don’t address and provide scientifically based best practices. See where the...
Minimum Water Depths Under Starting Blocks
By Scot Hunsaker on September 5, 2012
On July 20, 2012, the Facility Design and Construction Model for the Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) was posted for public comment due October...