Mark Trapani
After serving five years in the United States Air Force, Mark earned a Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering. He spent the next 20 years in the academic and corporate engineering world as a design engineer, project manager and product line manager.
Since his career in the pool and spa industry began Mark has focused on elevated installations. Although most of his work is in the New York City area, he has designed, consulted on and installed several hundred elevated pools, spas and water features across the United States. He created UpStream Pools in 2012 as an outgrowth of his observation that there is a chronic lack of expertise in how elevated pools should be installed.
Mark believes that elevated installations must be viewed as a subsystem of the building they are on, and for that reason they are very different from grade level installations.
Mark is a member of Pool and Hot Tub Alliance (PHTA), he chaired the committee that wrote the elevated pool and spa standard PHTA-10: Elevated Pool Standards (ANSI/PHTA/ICC-10 2021 American National Standard for Elevated Pools, Spas, and Other Aquatic Venues Integrated into a Building or Structure), and he serves on the PHTA Commercial Council and the Standards Process Committee.
Zachary Trapani
Zachary has over 12 years of experience in the installation of specialized pools and water features in elevated, ground-level, and subterranean settings for both residential and commercial clients. He now focuses on the planning, preparation, and design of these highly complex installations, with a focus on safety, resiliency, and building integration for the best user experience possible. Zachary has designed and installed pools featured in Architectural Digest and contributed his personal findings to the development of Elevated Pool Standards (ANSI/PHTA/ICC-10 2021 American National Standard for Elevated Pools, Spas, and Other Aquatic Venues Integrated into a Building or Structure). He has designed water features used in both the Institute of Contemporary Art- Boston as well as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
