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WATERFORMS
complement one another and different reclaimed water from various sources.
materials. We’ve been really excited the last We’re looking at grey water [water
few years and we’ve found that that’s given reclaimed from sewerage, for example],
us an extra ‘wow’ factor that we hadn’t we’re looking at storm water that we can
realised because of the control ability within get from the site, we polish up the water to
the LED. We use LEDs supplied from ULA use in our systems, we collect a lot of rain
which are manufactured in the Czech water, we have looked at subterranean
Republic, and they’re very low energy to run. water… One of the things that we can do
With our work in 24hour facilities like in places like Adelaide, where there’s
casino’s power savings over a year can be some significant problems with water, is to
quite substantial when LEDs are used. The create your own aquifer, when we have an
LEDs also give us that extra wow factor you abundance of water during the rainy
wouldn’t normally get. It’s quite a package. months, we can pump water into the
ground. A water storage tank under
CI: It sounds really challenging… ground is created, so that when you’re in
DS: We’ve had to work smart and clever. dry periods and you need a top up, you
There’s a lot of time and a lot of effort start pumping that water back into the
required to get a really good product on the feature; that doesn’t work everywhere, that
ground and a really good feature quite often only works when you’ve got the right
comes from simple ideas. Simple things are subterranean structure.
the hardest to do. You can spend hours and Environmental issues play a big factor in
hours making these really complicated our designs; in London for example, one of
systems but at the end of the day, one of the the big problems is that the water is very
overall things that our clients say is hard; if you’ve got a kettle and you keep
Waterforms, when you can get them on boiling it, you’ve got these kettle stones,
board, what you do is you get a really robust with the London War Memorial where it’s
system, it may not be the Lamborghini or wet and dry, it wouldn’t take long to get a
Ferrari, you're getting the Mercedes, it has calcium buildup. What we do is we put a
very little maintenance and they’re just water softener in there, we treat that, we
bulletproof and they keep on going and take all of the impurities out of the water,
going. Hey, that’s a very good treat the water so that it’s non corrosive
recommendation from our customers. and we keep recirculating the water. Most
other installations in London, when they
CI: Recycling and re-using water must get dirty they just dump the water, clean it
be a significant part of what you do, as out then fill it up again. The Lady Diana
the public are more aware of the scarcity fountain loses 50 per cent of its water to
of natural resources now, so businesses the Serpentine Lake and tops up
are trying to respond to that. continually from ground waters; not the
DS: Here in Australia, we’ve been in a Australia War Memorial. It holds the water;
drought, but fortunately our designs, even it cleans it, and reuses it.
though we’re in drought-affected areas , we
can have recirculated systems that use
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