Greg Stoks has been involved in the water entertainment industry since 1983 when he joined his father’s residential and commercial swimming pool business. In 1997, Commercial Aquatic Engineering was formed with Greg as principal of the company. The company rapidly developed a reputation for being able to provide everything from design consultation to complete construction and maintenance services. CAE was asked by Rainforest Café management to help simplify and redesign their signature water features to improve reliability, reduce installation complexity and improve system maintenance. Under Greg’s leadership, CAE responded with the development of UL listed, prefabricated mechanical systems and highly innovative prefabricated fountain structures. These new systems dramatically reduced field installation time and space requirements, improved reliability and were significantly easier to maintain than the original designs.

Greg purchased CAE in 2000 with the vision that this new prefabricated approach would streamline the water feature development process, allowing the company to provide competitively priced fountains throughout the United States. It became quickly apparent that architects generally lacked critical information needed for water features implementation. In response, Greg developed a concept validation and budgeting process to assist architects with initial water feature concepts, concept support documentation, functionality and performance reviews, and budgeting analysis. CAE provides this service to architects on a complimentary basis.

In 2002, Greg founded Aquatic Recreation Company (ARC) where he developed a full line of water play elements for the aquatic industry. Leveraging his fifteen years of experience in the aquatic industry, plus CAE’s water manipulation technologies and their new prefabricated mechanical system capability, ARC now offers over 100 water play attractions and interactive features that are unique to the industry.

Greg has a long history as a pioneer and innovator in the water entertainment industry and has been a featured speaker at many national conferences. He has been involved in over 1000 fountain and water feature design projects throughout the world, developing a true core competency in water feature design and construction.



Edward Benck is a 1983 graduate of Marquette University College of Engineering, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While at Marquette University, he focused his studies in the areas of fluid mechanics and the structure and properties of engineering materials.

Edward has over 25 years of experience developing and designing various custom engineered fluid handling systems. With an eye for aesthetics and an in-depth knowledge of fluid dynamics, Edward has created a marriage between the two. His diverse experience helps to balance the vision and needs of the client with the needs and opportunities of the site and surrounding environment. His technical ability, along with his hands-on experience relative to the design of water amenities has helped define Commercial Aquatic Engineering as a leader in the design-build field.

Coupled with his knowledge of fluid mechanics, Edward has over 15 years of direct experience in design, construction administration, contract negotiation and comprehensive project coordination. These skills provide specific design-build solutions for the development and implementation of large and small scale water entertainment amenities that meet the financial and aesthetic goals of the client.

In 2000 Edward purchased Commercial Aquatic Engineering and in 2002 founded Aquatic Recreation Company LLC along with his partner, Greg Stoks. Aquatic Recreation Company LLC provides custom and themed aquatic structures, turn key skid mounted feature and filtration pumping systems along with full design services to the commercial and municipal water park market.

Both Commercial Aquatic Engineering and Aquatic Recreation Company LLC serve the aquatic industry by satisfying the needs specific to the application. On the whole, the human response to creative water features and aquatic recreation facilities is profound. Remarkable design and creativity of water amenities help to improve a community’s quality of life now and in the future.

 

 
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