PoolGrotto Pool Project
Andy Duck
Read MoreWhen one of our core builders called us to announce their prospective client’s desire to completely redo their beach house on the Sound in Corolla, NC, they mentioned that a new concrete pool would be part of the project. Steve Daniels, of Renaissance Construction Company, Inc., had his designer, Paul Gilbertson, send us preliminary information on the prospective property and the client’s wish list for the backyard. To call it a transformation is a significant understatement
PoolBarges, Golf Carts and Shotcrete
Ryan Oakes
Read MoreBald Head Island, off the southern shores of North Carolina is a 6 mi2 (16 km2) island, accessed only by ferry, for guests, and by barge, for construction. It is steeped in history, playing a part in both the American Revolution and the Civil War. Feared by seamen, it is well protected by 30 mi (48 km) of shoals right off the cape into the Atlantic Ocean, known as the Frying Pan Shoals. North Carolina is famous for its barrier islands that
PoolPurlear Creek
Ryan Oakes and Anna Ploghoft
Read MoreIn North Carolina, we are quite fond of our local swimming holes. Ask any Tar Heel, and they will assuredly regale you with tales of their childhood spent swinging wildly from ropes and jumping from or sliding down boulders. The swimming hole always held magic
PoolArchitecturalThe Making of Swamp Thing
Ryan Oakes
Read MoreIt was early November and I was on top of a mountain, at the halfway point of a project that would take 18 months to complete. This is the moment I got a call to help build a swamp, indoors, for a movie set on
PoolThe Importance of ASA?s Outstanding Shotcrete Project Awards Program
Bill Drakeley and Kerri Allmer
Read MoreIf you?re anything like me, you have probably asked yourself, ?Why bother with award programs??
PoolAre Feathered Edges Ever Appropriate?
Ryan Oakes
Read MoreThe perfect storm? My deadline for this article was looming and I was called to duty, as a batch truck driver injured his finger the night before.
PoolRepairSwimming Pool Renovation with Shotcrete
Bill Drakeley
Read MoreThe major renovation of a pool structure is never an easy undertaking. Determining the quality of the in-place concrete is an art in and of itself.
PoolInadequate Reinforcement in Swimming Pools
Michael Reeves
Read MoreOver the past 15 years, backyard swimming pools have changed immensely. Once just a place to jump in and cool off, pools have now evolved into entire backyard design masterpieces.
PoolThe Restoration of Lincoln Park Fountain
Armando Ramos
Read MoreLincoln Park is a 270 acre (109 ha) park that borders the Hackensack River on the western edge of Jersey City, NJ.
PoolOverview of ASA Position Statements on Shotcrete Pool Construction
Charles S. Hanskat
Read MoreShotcrete placement has been used for decades to create high-quality, creatively shaped, durable, watertight concrete pool shells (Fig 1). Shotcrete has many inherent advantages in pool construction: