Grundfos has set corporate-wide goals to reduce its carbon footprint and increase its sustainability. This project is the latest move toward their ultimate realization. The goals of this project are:

  • Reduce potable water use in 2011 by 50%
  • Remove potable water from landscape by end of 2012
  • Maintain a useful and attractive landscape
  • Showcase the project’s processes for sustainability

To accomplish this, the company hired Designlab 252 to work with the Grundfos team to re-master plan the 27 acre campus. This was accomplished and approved by the Board in the fall of2011.

The new master plan calls for the replacement of landscape plantings that are of high water use to choices of low and medium use plants. A new state-of-the-art irrigation system is planned that will measure and distribute water in the appropriate amount through each season based on existing weather conditions. The site will be retrofitted to contain run-off of storm events, store the water on-site and be used in the irrigation possess. Further, Grundfos’ ponding facilities will have the ability to re-charge the aquifer, putting potential run-off back into the ground for use as potable water for community use.

Location

5900 East Shields Avenue Fresno, CA. 93727

Project Size

310,262 square feet

Duration

Construction Estimate: 160days

Budget

$1.7 million

Potable Water used 2010

6.5 million gallons

Potable Water used 2011

3.2 million gallons

Potable Water used 2012

3.2 million gallons (estimated)

Potable Water use 2013

0 gallons

Estimate landscape water demand when complete

Estimated 2.8 million gallons of non-potable water per year.

Prime Consultants

The project consultants include lead consultantDesignlab 252a full service Landscape Architecture firm.

Subcontracting to Designlab 252 are Yamabe & Horn, for civil work, and Teter for electrical engineering.

Clark Bros. Inc.a well-established and respected construction company

and Elite Landscaping was responsible for the landscape construction. From its inception all of the project consultants have understood the need to focus their time and resources in addressing community-wide water conservation.