Pool and Recreational Shotcrete Corner

The ASA Pool & Recreational Shotcrete Committee is again proud to announce the establishment of its third pos ition statement: ?Sustainability of Shotcrete in the Pool Industry.?

Perfecting Placement

Concrete is the construction material used most by humankind?wood, stone, brick, asphalt, and glass don?t even come close.

The Evolution of the Swimming Pool

Pool is a pool is a pool is a pool.? Actually, the correct words are, ?Rose is a rose is a?? and so on. The line, from Gertrude Stein?s poem ?Sacred Emily,? written in 1913, was intended to propose that ?once there, a thing (such as a rose or pool) is what it is and will always be there.”

Natural Fit

As I sat through a seminar highlighting contemporary organic architecture, the realization occurred that shotcrete construction is a seamless fit to this design philosophy.

Brown University

Brown University, a prominent Ivy League university located in Providence, RI, decided to add a new aquatics center with an Olympic-qualifying 164 ft (50 m) pool.