Green Building Support
Better Water Systems for More Sustainable Buildings.
Hydroxy supports architects, consultants, developers and facility teams in creating water infrastructure that reduces freshwater demand, improves reuse, manages water more efficiently and contributes to broader green-building objectives.
Water Is Central to Sustainable Building Design - Designing Buildings That Use Water More Intelligently
A green building is not defined only by energy efficiency.
How water is sourced, treated, distributed, consumed, recovered and reused can significantly influence the environmental performance of a building throughout its operating life.
Hydroxy helps project teams consider the complete building water cycle and identify opportunities to reduce dependence on freshwater while maintaining the water quality required for each application. Use the right water, at the right quality, for the right purpose.
Building Water Efficiency Into the Design
Hydroxy can support green-building water strategies across key areas:
Reducing unnecessary consumption and improving the efficiency of water-treatment and distribution systems.
Capturing rainfall and integrating it into the building's water strategy for appropriate uses.
Recovering treated water for suitable non-potable applications rather than using freshwater for every requirement.
Selecting treatment processes around actual water quality and demand to reduce unnecessary reject, backwashing, chemical use and energy consumption.
Combining available water sources to reduce dependence on a single freshwater supply.
Providing greater visibility into consumption, storage, treatment and reuse so building water performance can be managed over time.
From Freshwater Consumption to a Smarter Building Water Cycle
This circular approach can reduce potable-water demand and help keep suitable water in productive use for longer.
Where Recovered Water Can Create Value
Depending on water quality, treatment provided and applicable requirements, alternative or recycled water can support applications such as:
Reducing freshwater use for one of the building's recurring non-potable demands.
Using harvested or appropriately treated recycled water for green spaces.
Evaluating suitable alternative water sources for building cooling requirements where water quality permits.
Matching recovered water quality with appropriate facility-management applications. Green building water design is ultimately about avoiding the use of high quality freshwater where a suitable alternative can perform the same job.
