Audit Services

Understanding how to manage aging swimming pools

In-depth analyses put you ahead of the curve to make knowledgeable decisions regarding repair, renovation, or replacement.

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Safeguard the Future for Everyone Counsilman-Hunsaker’s engineering services can help you better understand what to do with an aging swimming pool. Aquatic facility physical audits have helped hundreds of owners and operators discover their options for modernizing an aging facility by identifying needed repairs, renovations, or replacements to safeguard your aquatic facility's future and ensuring the facility continues to run smoothly.  Get our e-Book on the Model Aquatic Health Code

Engineering and Experience You Can Trust

With a Counsilman-Hunsaker Physical Audit and Needs Assessment, our experienced specialists and engineers analyze the infrastructure of your facility from top to bottom, identifying items that may become problematic. We focus on the systems, structures, and code compliance so that its condition and potential future life can be evaluated with certainty. This detailed analysis includes an investigation into programmatic flexibility of the existing pool structure and equipment, identifies issues and substandard conditions, and provides budgetary recommendations for repair or replacement.

Each aquatic facility Physical Audit and Needs Assessment includes, but is not limited to, expert inspection of:

  • Pool structure and finishes
  • Recirculation systems, piping, fittings, valves
  • Filtration systems and overflow recovery systems
  • Water chemistry treatment systems
  • Pumps, flow meters, gauges, all controls
  • Code-compliance with state and local health codes and the Model Aquatic Health Code
  • Deck equipment

We Help You Choose the Best Direction for Your Aquatic Facility

Our engineering team provides a post-audit summary report identifying any repairs, compliance requirements that need to be met, and a probable cost estimate. This report, presented in everyday language that is easily understood, provides clear and itemized improvements and fixes for inclusion into any future budgets, and we'll work with you to establish a preventative maintenance plan for the future upkeep of your facility.

With Counsilman-Hunsaker's practical, innovative, and expert knowledge and experience in the aquatic industry, you'll be equipped to choose the best direction to ensure aquatics continues to be available for everyone in your community.

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Inspiring others to learn more

If you’re worrying about the age of your aquatic facility, experiencing unidentified problems, considering the need for a new facility, or simply curious where your facility is with its life expectancy, it’s time to consider a physical audit.

Aquatic facility physical audits have helped hundreds of owners and operators discover their options for modernizing their aging facility, whether by replacing equipment, renovating, or building a new facility, safeguarding their aquatic centers’ future. Get in touch with us today.

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    Thurgood Marshall Middle School – Rockford School District

    The Thurgood Marshall Middle School swimming pool presents an impressive sight with its expansive 6-lane, 25-yard layout, serving as the hub for physical education classes. While not a conventional venue for swimming competitions, this pool has gained recognition for hosting competitive events catered specifically to the school's robotics team. Upon closer inspection, it became evident ...

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    Fieldhouse Outdoor Pool

    The Montrose Recreation District (MRD) enlisted the services of Counsilman-Hunsaker to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of their outdoor pool adjacent to the Montrose Fieldhouse. Collaborating with Martin/Martin structural engineers, Counsilman-Hunsaker undertook a facility audit to offer MRD valuable insights on how to upgrade their facility to meet contemporary standards. The audit also included an opinion ...

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  • Sheridan County YMCA – Community Aquatic Center

    In 2015, Counsilman-Hunsaker conducted an aquatic facility audit on the two existing swimming pools at the Sheridan County YMCA, constructed in 1965 and 1985. The audit identified items that were substandard in the pools, highlighted items that didn't meet industry swimming pool design standards, and inspected pool equipment that wasn't operating as designed. Although the ...

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    University of North Georgia – Gainesville Aquatics Center

    Counsilman-Hunsaker assessed the existing lap pool and mechanical room located in the Gainesville Aquatic Center. Originally constructed in the 1960s, the pool is utilized daily for lap swimming and water aerobics class only – no diving or competitions. The lap pool was constructed with an aluminum pool shell that had succumbed to major leaking. The ...

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    Potawatomi Pool and Kennedy Pool

    The City of South Bend commissioned the Counsilman-Hunsaker, TMP Architecture, and Frost Engineering to comprehensively assess the Potawatomi and Kennedy pool facilities. After the audit, a summary of key findings was presented to the Parks Board. Potawatomi Pool originally opened in 1955 and the facility underwent a large renovation to the bathhouse and the addition ...

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