Swimming pool construction

A wall assembly for a swimming pool comprising a concrete footing for supporting said assembly, fiberglass reinforced or metal panel members extending upwardly from said concrete footing and arranged side by side in a row, the bottom edges of said penal members being embedded in said concrete footing, a flange formed on each vertically extending side edge of each panel member with adjacent flanges of adjacent panel members being connected together by mechanical fasteners, vertically extending concrete columns located on the outside of and providing lateral support for said panel members and supported at their bottoms on and connected to said concrete footing, one concrete column extending from the top of each joint between two adjacent panel members to the concrete footing, the majority of columns being spaced apart from immediately adjacent columns in the row a distance at least as great as the greatest thickness of the column measured in the direction of the row of panel members, horizontal reinforced concrete beam means rigidly joining the top of each concrete column to each adjacent concrete column and supported on said concrete columns, wherein the joints between said members are enclosed by said concrete columns on the outside of the panel members and each pair of connected flanges are embedded in a respective concrete column.