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Expertise

Data-Driven Design Series | Analyzing Water Use and Reuse

For our latest installment in our Data-Driven Design Series, we spoke with Jon Robertson, Glumac’s Lone Star Region Plumbing Manager, about strategies for reaching net zero water and how we’re improving the water efficiency of our projects. Water reuse and conservation is a major aspect of resilient design in the face of climate change. In […]
Sammamish Community & Aquatic Center

Great Projects

The Sammamish Community and Aquatic Center Makes a Splash

In the spring of 2016, the Community and Aquatic Center in Sammamish, Washington, opened to large crowds of active adults and playful children. Created in collaboration with the YMCA, it’s a facility that realizes  Sammamish’s goal of creating sustainable facilities for its growing population. Along with architects Barker Rinker Seacat, the City of Sammamish, contractors Porter […]

Expertise

Five Major Water Waste Culprits and the Importance of Commissioning

Even when optimized, landscape irrigation is a significant source of water use within an urban community. However, water usage and costs can escalate when systems and equipment are broken or not controlled properly. Here are a few common waste water culprits we find time and again during site-walks. Addressing them with a commissioning team can […]
water conservation, energy, sustainability

Expertise

The Year of Water Conservation

Water is becoming a precious resource, particularly in the Western United States, where many of our clients live and work. In 2016, we are invigorating our focus on water conservation in the built environment, and further establishing ourselves as industry leaders in this area. With El Niño forecasting rain to drought-stricken states, we see this as a […]

Concepts

Buildings Need Clean Water Too:
Overcoming the Challenge of Process Water Conservation

Water conservation has become one of today’s most urgent challenges to sustainable design.  As the world becomes more aware and engaged in sustainability at a lifestyle and cultural level, the social and economic benefits of investing in water conservation are becoming more globally apparent and compelling. Solutions like low-flow plumbing fixtures can decrease a facility’s water […]