Communities responsible for the creation of a new swimming pool and natatorium are often faced with choosing between a conventional AIA protocol of design programming, schematic design, design development and construction documents, bidding and construction administration as compared to negotiating with a sole source package pool installer (design-build). One must be knowledgably about different manufacturers […]
Joe Hunsaker always taught us to do your homework and only provide answers you know are right. If you don’t know the answer, then admit it and follow up once you do. Often times, people fall into the “I think” or the “I don’t think” syndrome. Far too often people make decisions based upon assumptions […]
Let me paint a picture for you: it’s the middle of winter and the streets of Berlin are covered in snow. You and your family are ready for a tropical get away, yet the closest ocean is over 100 miles away and the Baltic Sea doesn’t quite count as a “tropical” destination. Fortunately less than […]
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 bid attempts (New York City in 2012 and Chicago 2016), the USOC recently sent letters to 35 mayors, inviting them to consider bidding for the 2024 Olympics. “Our objective in this […]
Effective January 28th, 2013, PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA) manufacturer of the Accu-Tab® Chlorination Systems separated from its commodity chemicals business which was then merged with Georgia Gulf Corporation (Atlanta, GA) to form a new company, Axiall Corporation. Axiall is expected to have annual revenues of approximately $5 billion and be the third-largest chlor-alkali producer […]
When you think of a swimming pool, you likely think of a rectangular pool; not very fun. But ask someone in McMinnville, Oregon to describe a swimming pool and the answer will be wildly different. Recently featured in American Builders Quarterly, Wings and Waves indoor waterpark is not your average pool. With water slides launching […]
Erich brings real-world experience into his role as an aquatic design professional, including 15 years as a swim coach and nearly 20 years with Counsilman-Hunsaker. Erich primarily focuses on projects in the Midwest, but has managed over 100 projects across the US and Canada. A graduate of the University of Missouri – St. Louis, Erich is a licensed civil engineer […]
Power 25 Recipient – Scot Hunsaker was named as one of the industry’s most powerful professionals in Aquatics International 2013 He follows in the wake of his notable father Joe Hunsaker, who built on a collegiate swim career to establish a regional pool management company and then the aquatic design firm Counsilman-Hunsaker. But Scot Hunsaker, […]
Counsilman – Hunsaker will be sponsoring Deborah Phelps Keynote session at the World Aquatic Health Conference to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 16 – 10, 2013. Ms. Phelps, an educator and author of the book, A Mother for All Seasons, is also America’s most well-known “Swim Mom”. She is a highly sought after motivational […]
An indoor aquatic center is a building consisting of two or more rooms. One room is the natatorium, which contains one or more pools. Indoor short span natatoria house short course pools and have a narrow width, around 100 feet. Such a space can accommodate all types of pools as long as their widths are […]
