Regency Aims to Conserve 42M Gallons of Water |
January 8, 2009 ChainStoreAge.com Jacksonville, Fla.-based Regency Centers has announced a water-conservation initiative at 36 of its shopping centers -- in Arizona (1), California (27), Colorado (5), Oregon (2) and Washington (1). The initiative will replace conventional landscape-irrigation controllers with intelligent hardware. Mark Peternell, Regency's VP of sustainability, said that the initiative will save more than 42 million gallons of water per year. "The savings on our water bills will pay for the new hardware in just 24 months," he noted. Ordinary irrigation systems do not adjust to fit changing weather conditions and, as a result, end up overwatering. According to HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc., the Petaluma, Calif.-based manufacturer of smart WeatherTRAK controllers, landscapes typically receive 30% to 300% more water than needed. HydroPoint, which is supplying most of the smart controllers for the Regency multi-center initiative, also calculates that the property destruction, water runoff and liabilities caused by overwatering may cost five to 10 times as much as the wasted water. Smart irrigation controllers use sensors scattered around the property to sense subtle changes in temperature, humidity and precipitation. They also tap into satellite data for global weather information and forecasts. "You can program the systems," Peternell said, "to provide more water to areas with shrubs and less to areas with grass, and to change when conditions change." Peternell went on to say that the initiative was a pilot project that would guide the company's approach to applying smart controller technology to Regency's entire 450-center portfolio, which could save as much as 400 gallons of water per year. The water-conservation efforts are part of a larger Regency program called greengenuity, which aims to improve the company's overall environmental performance. Other environmental initiatives include partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy in the government's Net-Zero Energy Commercial Building Initiative. The Net-Zero program is exploring commercial building materials and procedures that reduce reliance on fossil fuels. |
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