Show Off Your Company: Submit a Standout ASA Member Profile

Is your company a Sustaining or Corporate Member of the American Shotcrete Association (ASA)? Then you have a unique opportunity to be featured in Shotcrete magazine. Each issue highlights one Sustaining Member and one Corporate Member with up to two dedicated pages per profile. This is a fantastic way to…

Complete Your ASA Contractor Qualification

The ASA Contractor Qualification Committee (CQC) was created by the American Shotcrete Association (ASA) to focus on establishing and maintaining standards for shotcrete contractors. Our committee plays a crucial role in…

Care & Feeding of Your Engineer on Shotcrete Projects

Most readers of this article have probably had some terrific — and some less than terrific — experiences on shotcrete construction projects. While some projects just sailed along smoothly with everyone wanting to work together again, others were a miserable slog that might have ended up in lawsuits. Often the project experience is driven by…

This is What We Do

All of our engaged committee members who routinely share their time and experience to better the shotcrete community are our unsung heroes. Would you like to play a part?

Exciting Updates!

It has been a tumultuous few years for the pool industry. The onslaught of “COVID Pools” has brought the joy of swimming and being around water to thousands. Unfortunately, the lure of building pools in a time of high demand brought with it an ever-increasing need for better building standards in the pool industry.

Get Pool-Qualified with ASA QSC

Here are just some of the programs ASA has developed to provide the concrete construction market with educated, quality-oriented shotcrete contractors for shotcrete projects worldwide.

The Anatomy of an Award-Winning Project

Like a well-built structure, a winning submission has a distinct anatomy — key components that work together to tell a complete, compelling story. Here’s how to ensure your project has all the right parts in place to stand out from the competition.

Raising the Bar

There are few building codes or standards applied to the pool industry, so it’s an industry with no rules, codes, or laws governing pool construction. So, anything goes, right? Wrong. Standards do exist — just not codified in law. Yet.

The Need to Recognize Quality Shotcrete Placement

Watershape University (WU) was founded to provide everyone in the pool industry with educational resources to succeed. With this in mind, WU developed two credentials for those involved in shotcreted pool shells…