Engineered Solutions

Replacing your failing plumbing or mechanical infrastructure may be an opportunity to rethink a system’s design. Our professional engineers can help you explore options and alternatives that best meet your needs.

We also design and install solutions for infrastructure that wasn’t included in your original build—most notably fire sprinkler systems and in-unit laundry.

Services

Design Exploration

When multiple options exist for replacing or retrofitting your plumbing and mechanical system, our engineers work with you to explore potential designs. Informed by your requirements—such as functional needs and desired time and budget—we help you evaluate relevant alternatives so that you select the best approach for your community.

Solution Design

When you’re looking for the quickest and easiest infrastructure replacement or retrofit solution for a plumbing or mechanical system, SageWater pairs a solution-based design with our in-house turnkey construction services to deliver a truly end-to-end design-build solution for your community.

Benefits of SageWater’s Engineered Solutions

Speed

Since our designers work hand-in-hand with our construction crews, we know what it takes to get the job done. With decades of experience focused exclusively on plumbing and mechanical infrastructure solutions, we offer an integrated design-build approach that can cut 20% or more off the length of your project.

Accuracy

Since we self-perform our work, we know the exact level of effort to complete each task. This makes our bids more accurate than those from designers and contractors who aren’t specialists. We know what to look for during the design process to anticipate most unforeseen circumstances. Our accuracy is critical to minimizing change orders that often inflate other contractors’ actual project costs.

Advice

When you’re unsure which design option to select from those delivered by an architect, engineer, or other designer, our engineers have the specialized expertise to be your strategic advisors. We’ll help you weigh the pros and cons of each alternative so that you select an infrastructure solution that best meets your community needs and budget.

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Choose the Support Model That’s Right for You

Design-Build

For a truly turnkey experience, SageWater can complete your entire project end-to-end. From design to permits to construction, our integrated teams of professional engineers, project managers, and tradespeople can support your community throughout the process, all with one contract and a single point of accountability.

Design Assist

If you’re already working with an architect, engineer or other designer, SageWater excels at playing a support role to help “value engineer” your solution. Since plumbing and mechanical infrastructure is all we do, we have decades of unique, real-world experience for helping your designer with things like material selection, design considerations, and overall project approach to help lower costs and improve efficiencies.

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Systems We Design

Whether you want to redesign an existing system or retrofit your property with one that wasn’t included in the original build, we can provide you with an Engineered Solution.

HVAC & Mechanical Systems

Mechanical equipment offers the greatest opportunity for efficiency upgrades due to industry innovations over the last 20 years.

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Domestic Water/Supply Piping Systems

Hot water supply offers a variety of design options including decentralization and recirculation.

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DWV Piping Systems

Poor-performing DWV systems (especially those that are failing less than 50 years after installation) can be re-designed or expanded to better meet your community’s needs.

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Fire Sprinkler Systems

By their very nature, fire sprinkler systems are always fully engineered solutions that must be customized to each individual building layout.

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In-Unit Laundry

Retrofitting a community to put washers and dryers in units introduces a highly valued amenity, but the requirements can make the ROI challenging. A careful analysis is crucial.

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Engineered Solutions Client Success Stories

Multifamily Apartments

Arlington | VA