This article takes the perspective of your facility’s customer, the end user. Whether your facility is a high-end sports arena or a public-serving property like a school district, an airport, a hospital, or a commercial office building, your customer wants a minimal touch experience in public restrooms.
Most consumers are not overly savvy about plumbing. They know that if a restroom is dirty, touching things feels “icky.” This leads to the squatty potty “hover” approach, the kicking of flush handles, and leaving faucets on to not touch with clean hands what you just touched with dirty hands. In short, the people who use your facility’s restrooms want to do their business without the possibility of sharing someone else’s business. In practice, this means touchless faucets and flush valves, toilet seat covers, and touchless paper towel dispensers; because we all know air dryers have been shown to blow “toilet bloom” around the restroom.
As the facility maintenance team, you already know the horrors of public restroom hygiene. What often gets lost in the wash is our humble plumber's enormous impact on civilization's success. Sanitary plumbing separates clean water from dirty water. It funnels the clean water in and the dirty water out, protecting consumers from illness. Plumbing concepts are used in farming providing water to crops, fire prevention and control, transporting gases for cooking and heating, and for various medical processes. It’s fair to say, Plumbers save the world every day of the week.
One element that may be overlooked with Sloan sensor products is how much potential water savings they can generate. The home of Seattle’s WNBA Seattle Storm and the NHL Seattle Kraken, Climate Pledge Arenatakes water conservation very seriously, even using rainwater runoff from their roof to make the “greenest” ice in the NHL
With the over 700 combined water closets, urinals, flushometers, and faucets, Sloan valves are helping Climate Pledge Arena reach its goal of being the worlds most progressive, responsible, and sustainable arena. This includes Sloan’s:
Saving water in a large facility like Climate Pledge Arena pencils out massive ongoing savings on the water bill. Take Portland International Airport (PDX), for example. With over 35,000 people using their facility daily, the terminal's 400 toilets get an average of 200 flushes per day each! At 3.5 gallons per flush, that was 280,000 gallons of water down the toilet daily.
The Port of Portland recently installed Sloan ECOS Flushometers in the executive offices. ECOS flushometers
By changing out these 400 flushvalves, PDX uses 37% of its previous water consumption. With that kind of savings for a large facility, it’s worth taking a second look at your monthly water bill and asking how many months it would take for 63% savings on water to pay for new flushometers in your facility? ••Referenced article linked below
Ultimately, your customers expect to spend their hard-earned dollars with responsible and responsive organizations. Whether those dollars are in the form of taxes or school levies, hospital bills, entertainment venue tickets, or their office building lease, everyone wants to feel safe, clean, healthy, and accountable with their resources. Sloan is committed to being a responsible and responsive organization. Their high-quality sensor products are an important part of that commitment.
References
https://www.sloan.com/design/inspiration/case-studies/entertainment/climate-pledge-arena