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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    Linda Wiginton Aquatic Center

    In 2020, the City of Altus commissioned Counsilman-Hunsaker to conduct a swimming pool assessment of the two pools at the Linda Wiginton Aquatic Center. The audit identified substandard items at the pools or not operating as designed. The pools were originally constructed in 1980 and have undergone minor and major renovations. Recommendations were made to ...

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    Waverly Municipal Swimming Pool

    The City of Waverly, Iowa's Municipal Swimming Pool has proudly served the community for an impressive 56 summers. To plan for the future of Memorial Park, MSA and Counsilman-Hunsaker were enlisted to provide comprehensive planning services, specifically focusing on developing options for the future of the swimming pool. The study encompassed a thorough examination of ...

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  • Harper College – Health and Recreation Center

      The Health and Recreation Center (Building M)  offers a unique fitness and recreational experience for students, faculty, staff, and the community. The newly renovated 135,000 sq. ft. facility offers an aquatics center, a four-court field-house, a suspended jogging track, fitness studios, cardio/strength areas, a 10,000 square foot fitness center, numerous fitness programs, and the NCH ...

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    University of Illinois – Chicago

    In 2022, the University of Illinois–Chicago entrusted Counsilman-Hunsaker with conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the Recreation Pool and Spa housed within the Student Recreation Center. Despite their inauguration in 2005, the swimming pools exhibit discernible signs of their two-decade existence. The evaluation highlighted various aspects that need thoughtful renovation or replacement, including pool surfaces, overflow ...

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    Ridge Country Club

    The Ridge Country Club features two distinct pools: a 4-lane, 25-yard lap pool and a smaller wading pool designed with a zero-depth entry. A comprehensive audit assessed the collections and mechanical systems, particularly on the 1-meter diving board. The diving board and fulcrum were found to be damaged, prompting Counsilman-Hunsaker to undertake an evaluation of ...

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