Facility Management

Plumbing the depths

The plumbing system within your building effectively has two primary roles: to deliver water and take away waste. In doing so, it ensures our public health is fully protected and it’s why many believe plumbing is undoubtedly humankind’s greatest invention.

It’s not surprising to learn that decisive trends within plumbing are to be found in the field of efficient, future-oriented technologies and intelligent building services technology. Digital data interaction and collection already play a pivotal role in our everyday lives. This is even more the case in your plumbing system, by integrating water resources management and effectively providing data on water quantity, quality, demand and consumption.

Smart metering and sensors connected to the Building Management System (BMS), can trigger automatic alerts to smartphones, tablet apps or in the form of an audible alert, enabling facility managers (and utility companies) to analyse consumption patterns and their operations more effectively. Automatic

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