Often retail sites like shopping centres have multiple tenants. Some tenants like a Chicken shop or a McDonalds for example will use more water than say a standard clothing store like Just Jeans. With our smart water metering technology deployed property managers can now individually bill their tenants, so they only have to pay for the water they use. We can also help our clients achieve a higher NABERS rating , save water due to drought and meet their sustainability goals.
Below are water savings achieved in 2020 for our clients.
Leaking Cooling Towers at Shopping Centre – August 2020
The centre was alerted by our AWARE team that their overnight water usage was up by 30L/min.
After investigations they found leaks in their cooling towers.
Thanks to AWARE the issue was noticed and fixed within a fortnight. In the past we have often seen leaks like these go on for well in excess of 6 months. This would equate to 2,630kL of water costing $6,750.
Major Shopping Centre Property Manager – April 2020
Observations
With overall total water consumption of 2,376,000kL/year understanding where and how water is used has been a major focus. WaterGroup’s monitoring system readily identified a number of sites with significant base flows indicating ongoing unidentified leaks.
With large sites, additional smart metering has been deployed to assist in isolating areas with abnormal water usage and
Identifying leaks that amount to 10% of the total usage monitored.
Example – Major Shopping Centre – Western Sydney
- Monitoring multiple meters across the site enabled us to capture a large 120 L/min leak at one of the tenant properties.
- Plumbers were deployed and the leak was fixed.
- Total savings 1,210kL, $2,552
