C4114: ESSENTIAL ADVANCED WATERSHAPES – WELLNESS
Where Water Meets Wellness
Expand your approach to watershape design with this two-day advanced course focused on creating spaces that support physical, mental, and emotional wellness.
Explore how hydrotherapy, aromatherapy, light therapy, and thermal therapy can be thoughtfully incorporated into residential and commercial environments. You’ll learn not only how these wellness elements affect the human body, but also the design and construction considerations needed to integrate them successfully.
The course takes you through the key elements of a well-designed wellness space, including layout, materials, color, lighting, HVAC, waterproofing, vapor control, and finish selection. You’ll also explore construction considerations and building trades that may be less familiar to traditional pool and watershape professionals.
Whether you’re looking to expand your expertise, introduce wellness features into your projects, or pursue new opportunities in this growing area of the industry, you’ll leave with practical knowledge you can apply to future designs and builds.
IACET CEUs: 1.6
Duration: 16 Hours
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM MT
Taught by: David J. Peterson, P.E., IWI
Event Details
What You Will Learn
- Identify wellness elements and features that can expand the services and experiences you offer clients.
- Understand how hydrotherapy, aromatherapy, light therapy, and thermal therapy can influence physical, mental, and emotional wellness.
- Apply important wellness design principles, including layout, core elements, color, materials, lighting, and HVAC.
- Examine critical construction and operational considerations, including vapor barriers, waterproofing, finish materials, and specialized building trades.
Certified Watershape Professional
Continue your path toward the Certified Watershape Professional (CWP) credential, one of Watershape University’s highest levels of professional certification. The CWP represents advanced study across business administration, custom fluid engineering, and specialized watershape construction, including high-end residential, commercial, and wellness applications.
Requirements: Includes C4114.
C4114: ESSENTIAL ADVANCED WATERSHAPES - WELLNESS
david j. peterson, p.e., iwi
Peterson is President/CEO of Watershape Consulting, Inc., an international planning, design and engineering firm providing owners, architects, contractors, and the legal profession with services relating to residential, commercial and institutional pools, spas and water features.
He obtained his B.S. Civil Engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is a registered engineer in several states. Peterson has been in the watershape industry since 1994 when he began his career designing life support systems for large aquariums and marine mammal exhibits. He was Vice President Engineering at Polaris Pool Systems where he developed and patented several products.
Peterson reorganized the Genesis 3 Design Group into GENESIS® University in 2012. When GENESIS merged with the National Swimming Pool Foundation (NSPF) in 2016, Peterson became Director of Education for GENESIS, a position he held until forming Watershape University.