Pool side party ideas There's hardly anyone who doesn't love a pool party. Your pool is the best party venue for the summer. Your backyard, the pool, food and drinks with the set of your friends is all that you...
Creative Solutions A good staff is expensive. Reduce the cost with these resourceful ideas. Hiring and training staff members is a key responsibility for nearly three-quarters of those who responded to a December 2011 online Aquatics International survey of 405...
Pool Treatment 101: Introduction To Chlorine Sanitizing Mastering the knack of maintaining a healthy pool is not difficult with the right information and a little diligence. The proper use of chlorine is a key step to keep your pool healthy....
Plastic Concrete: Building Bricks Made From Landfill Waste Recent RPI Masters of Architecture graduate Henry Miller has devised a way to reuse waste plastic as an aggregate in cement, circumventing the energy-intensive process of plastic recycling. By grinding up landfill-bound...
Freestyle - High Hips It's amazing what having your hips just a couple inches higher in freestyle can mean to your efficiency and speed. While there are many body-position drills you can do to learn this, some swimmers may feel...
Splashing Good Times For several years, splash pads and spray grounds have been identified as desired amenities for all types of recreational environments. Splash pads are popular and economical. What is it that has made these systems so successful? Here...
CPSC Approves Unblockable Extension The Consumer Product Safety Commission is extending by one year the deadline for retrofitting unblockable drains in public pools. In 2010, the CPSC determined that an unblockable drain cover could be installed over a smaller sump...
The 2012 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code-The Newest Member of The International Code Family Presenting a summary of the Internation Swimming Pool and Spa Code....
Ergonomic, Easy Care, High Style Outdoor Furniture Kirv is a line of ergonomically designed tubular steel outdoor low-maintenance furniture intended to be left outside all year. Handmade in the UK, the colorful collection built with 304 grade stainless steel with...
Construction Begins On Shanghai Groundscraper-Hotel Referring to the "groundscraper"–a sprawling, territorial megastructure initiated, in a sense, when Le Corbusier felled his skyscraper project at Chandigarh (what would become the Secretariat offices) and toppled it onto the ground bed below, thereby...