Engineered Solutions for Domestic Hot Water

In a centralized system, water leaves the boiler and travels a great distance to reach residents. Over time, pipe insulation deteriorates, which means the boiler works harder to keep hot water in circulation.

When you need to replace your out-of-date system, one way to optimize its performance is to add hot water recirculation lines, which ensure hot water is always available on demand while reducing long-term strain on the central boiler.

When you use localized boilers or water heaters, you bring the water heating process closer to the end user.

• In high-rises, operate zoned hot water boilers or heaters for specific floors.
• In garden style communities, install separate water heating equipment for each building across the campus.

These localized systems require less energy because the equipment is generally smaller, and the hot water doesn’t travel far as it’s distributed to fewer units that are nearby.

Many communities will save costs from a fully decentralized design. For example:

• They can use submetering to defer water heating costs to residents.
• Residents appreciate individual control of their water consumption and temperature.

Communities also gain significant maintenance convenience. Unlike when the entire community loses hot water service due to a central boiler failure, only an individual unit is affected when its hot water heater fails.

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

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.

• Because of our specialization in multifamily plumbing and mechanical infrastructure solutions, our professional engineers have precise, practical knowledge and experience that most other designers lack.
• We’ll help you evaluate ROI scenarios based on your goals, budget, and building layout.
• You’ll receive design options with highly accurate estimates that meet your project requirements and local building codes.

Add to that our turnkey construction solution for a seamless, comprehensive design-build delivery.