Expand Your Expertise with Watershape University 🌟
Watershape University is excited to participate in the Everything Under the Sun Expo, hosted by the Florida Swimming Pool Association (FSPA) in Orlando, FL, from February 11-17, 2024. This premier event for pool professionals is your chance to learn, grow, and network with industry leaders.
What We’re Offering:
💡 3 Pre-Conference Courses:
Watershape University is excited to participate in the Everything Under the Sun Expo, hosted by the Florida Swimming Pool Association (FSPA) in Orlando, FL, from February 11-17, 2024. This premier event for pool professionals is your chance to learn, grow, and network with industry leaders.
💡 4 Short Courses During the Show:
Perfect for diving into specialized knowledge, these concise courses will leave you equipped with actionable insights to improve your skills and business operations.
Whether you’re a builder, designer, or service professional, these courses are tailored to help you elevate your expertise and grow your business.
Itinerary
BUSINESS 2121 – Pool Inspections for Real Estate Transactions
CONSTRUCTION 2111 – Essential Pool Construction (Bilingual)
DESIGN 2212 – Essential Elements of Design Workshop
BUSINESS 2120 – Introducing Pool Inspection Process for Real Estate Transactions
CONSTRUCTION 2921 – Profiling Outstanding Projects, Start to Finish
DESIGN 2251 – Developing Design Discipline Habits
Program Summaries
Course Description
0.1 IACET CEUs
This unique session is based on a 2024 survey of more than 500 pool industry business owners across the U.S. who were “What are the top concerns you are facing right now?” Presented by Brett Abbott, industry marketing consultant and founder of Pool Builder Marketing and Dane Wiseman, industry digital marketing specialist, this presentation will review respondent’s top industry concerns, and share the specific recommendations for plotting today’s course into an uncertain tomorrow.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss shrinking lead flow and ineffective prospect generation.
- Examine the effects of high interest rates, economic uncertainly and international instability, and ongoing labor challenges.
- Consider shrinking markets and how to integrate alternative markets.
- Explore the impact and opportunities offered by artificial intelligence.
Instructors
Brett Abbott
Dane Wiseman
Course Description
0.1 IACET CEUs
Reliable and thorough pool inspections have become an important part of buying and selling residential properties that include pools and spas. As a result, conducting those inspections represents a significant business opportunity for a growing number of experienced industry professionals. This course provides a concise primer for those interested in becoming pool inspectors.
Learning Objectives
- Introduce inspection basics: finding/diagnosing problems and defects, recording findings, compiling a report and using inspection software.
- Review inspection examples for residential pools.
- Describe how to set up and market a residential pool-inspection business.
Instructors
Dennis Boyd
Course Description
1.6 IACET CEUs
Qualified swimming pool inspectors are in great demand for residential pools as part of real estate sales. In particular, prospective home buyers typically must have a pool inspected as part of the customary pre-purchase home inspection. This 16-hour course equips industry professionals with necessary information and skills to conduct competent and cost-effective residential pool inspections through a review of national swimming pool codes and standards.
Learning Objectives
- Perform a complete step-by-step residential pool inspection.
- Identify and diagnose pool issues that are in violation of national pool codes and standards, as well as those that may lead to costly repairs.
- Practice accurately recording all pool-issue findings.
- Generate a complete and informative pool inspection report.
Instructors
Dennis Boyd
Course Description
2.4 IACET CEUs
Students spend three days carefully examining the key elements of swimming pool construction with a focus on how basic engineering directly determines construction methods and details. Day One covers basic engineering (listed above), Day Two moves through construction phases including layout, forming, utilities, safety barriers, shotcrete, waterproofing, tile and coping, all with an eye toward exceeding standards and best practices. The program concludes with discussions about concrete decking, plaster science and start-up methods.
Learning Objectives
- List engineering disciplines: geotechnical, hydraulic, structural and electrical.
- Examine project layout, form design/construction, shotcrete application and waterproofing measures.
- Examine artisan points: tile and coping, decking, plaster preparations, cementitious finishes, materials science.
- Discuss start-up procedures, punch-list execution and project conclusion/hand over.
Instructors
Paolo Benedetti, IWI
Bill Drakeley, ACI, IWI
Brett Holland, IWI
Jon Temple
Course Description
0.2 IACET CEUs
WU’s Project Profile Track highlights outstanding and unique work presented by the industry’s leading designers and builders.
Learning Objectives
- Review high-end residential project profiles. Examine, project conditions, client expectations and design challenges.
- Describe the collaborative process with clients and other project team members.
- List design changes, engineering considerations, project limitations, design and detail execution.
- Discuss completed projects and learning experiences/takeaways.
Instructors
Brett Holland, IWI
Bill Drakeley, ACI, IWI
Jon Temple
Course Description
1.6 IACET CEUs
With the widespread use of 3D modeling programs over the past two decades, a majority of watershape and outdoor-living designers have joined the industry without the advantage of formal professional design education. This intensive two-day design workshop fills that gap with a crash-course detailing the core concepts of watershape and landscape design – all tailored specifically to intricacies of residential pools and outdoor living.
Learning Objectives
- Explore the reasons WHY We Design including the sub-conscious role that design plays in creating an underlying emotional connection between our clients and the created space that they cannot leave.
- Define how to see the world with “design eyes” as you discover the fundamental elements and principles of design. Instruction includes creating Objects and Properties, Spatial Theme, Design Framework, and Design Composition.
- Examine numerous case studies and project examples created by design masters across the world and develop a final project design concept, with instruction on how to modify the process to fit your company, your client, and your style.
Instructors
Jason Brownlee, IWI
Course Description
0.1 IACET CEUs
Designers, by our creative right-brained and free-flow nature are wired differently than accountants and engineers. “Rules are made to be broken”, or are more of a “guideline” than an actual rule, right? Words like “Discipline” and “Developing Habits” can make us shutter and run in an opposite direction. However even in a free-thinking curiosity-encouraged design profession, there are several hard rule disciplines that, when learned and made habits, will help mold us into much better designers. And (spoiler alert!), these disciplines are not at all unpleasant! In this class, we will explore 10 practical application and lifestyle design discipline habits that will inspire your design-life and set you on a path to watch your creativity explode!
Learning Objectives
- Discuss practical application disciplines that, when directly applied to your current design process, will open up ways to drastically improve your design process.
- Review practical exercises to assist in breaking out of a design rut, and help you see each design as a unique opportunity.
- Explore Design Lifestyle Habits that will open your eyes and teach you to live every day as a creative!
- Learn how the design community can be there to support, encourage, and direct — and how you can find your place in this community.
Instructors
Jason Brownlee, IWI
