News
SWS & 75 Wynford Heights Cr. win a 2010 Toronto Green Award!
May 10 2010.
SWS is pleased to have won a 2010 a City of Toronto Green Award with 75 Wynford Heights Cr.
SWS & 75 Wynford Heights Cr. received an award of excellence in water efficiency category.
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Visit SWS at the PM Expo Springfest!
March 29 2010.
Visit SMART Watering Systems at the annual PM Expo Springfest! The 16th Annual SpringFest returns on April 28, 2010 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Building. This exclusive one-day event features educational seminars and top exhibits for building owners, property managers, facility managers and others responsible for building maintenance and facility operations.
David G. Sim to speak at Canadian Water Summit - June 17th
March 29 2010.
SWS's David Sim to discuss the challenges of stormwater and rainwater re-use using innovative passive irrigation technology as part of the Toronto Waterfront re-development project.
SWS: 2010 finalist for a City of Toronto Green Awards
March 18 2010.
SWS is pleased to be a 2010 finalist for a City of Toronto Green Award, Water Efficiency Category. In 2009, SWS received an Award of Excellence in this category.
SWS is pleased to offer our spring Lunch and learn series
February 8 2010.
March 4th - Due to high demand a third date has been added!
March 1st and 18th come learn about the latest technology and trends in irrigation water management and design.
Presentations include water conserving methodologies with case studies showing actual projects and results.
Space is limited so sign up now.
March 1st
March 4th
March 18th
For more information and to sign up please contact dsim@smartwateringsystems.ca
SMART Watering Systems Launches Brand New Web Site.
February 4 2010.
In order to better serve it's existing and potential client base SMART Watering Systems decided to re-build and re-create their web presence with a slick and interactive new website.
As well as streamlining the appearance and content we can also now be followed on Twitter, Facebook & Linked in.
You can also follow our blog from time to time to read new and interesting articles written by our staff or our friends and partners....
Let's conserve our most precious resource together!
David G. Sim carries Olympic Torch for 2010 Vancouver games
January 1 2010.
SWS would like to formally congratulate David for carrying the 2010 Olympic torch on January 1, 2010 from Larder lake (15mins east of Kirkland Lake) home of the giant trout.
David G. Sim earn LEED AP designation
December 17 2009.
SWS is pleased to announce that David G. Sim has earned his LEED AP designation!
Bentall turns off the tap to realize water savings!
November 5 2009.
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Bentall Real Estate has implemented many projects to increase their sustainability, such as an aggressive GHG Reduction Strategy. Striving towards continued environmental improvement, their most recent innovate project involves water conservation. In early 2008, the Bentall property management team at 6880 Financial Drive turned their attention to outdoor water use. Having metered three irrigation points of connection, it was established that irrigation water use was approximately 14,000m3 per year. With water rates increasing 9% per year, reducing this potable water usage represented a significant opportunity to save money and reduce the Building water footprint. In March 2008, SMART Watering Systems (SWS) partnered with Bentall LP to reduce water use and, after a site evaluation, implemented an Irrigation Management System (IMS) that is centrally monitored by SWS. The IMS uses local weather information to make daily schedule adjustments that eliminates overwatering and promotes healthy landscape growth. Property management also installed high efficiency nozzles in problem areas which significantly reduced water waste occurring from over-pressurization and wind. Mid-Season monitoring and inspections of the irrigation systems ensure that property damage and water waste is eliminated. After 2 years of monitoring and measurement, the landscape water use was reduced by 20,000m3 while maintaining a beautiful campus enjoyed by the building tenants. Doug Silk, General Manager comments,"Weather based irrigation management has helped us achieve significant annual potable water use reductions. It just makes sense to adjust our irrigation schedule as the weather changes.Clearly, responsible water use is good for our landscapes, the environment and our bottom line." |
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SWS invited to speak to Hotel Association of Canada.
March 11 2009.
Landscape Water Use - No Longer a Secret
March 5 2009.
Landscape Water Use - No Longer a Secret
By Matthew Sandink
Recently American President Obama’s transition team recommended the use of technologically advanced irrigation controllers in an effort to reduce irrigation water consumption in residential and commercial landscapes. Today water conservation has become a huge issue all over North America, however the fact that the new American government is specifically looking at irrigation efficiency should tell all of us in the horticultural industry that landscape water use is no longer flying under the radar.
For the rest of this blog please read it at Landscape Architecture Resource
The Impact of Peak Water, Peak Oil & Peak Wheat
January 28 2009.
By Caroline Keddy
The real impact of the peaking of any finite resource is that long-established demand continues to rise while the supply goes into terminal decline. This is the nexus of a crisis. In our growth-addicted global society to it means that growth of whatever sectors of the economy and society rely on that resource must cease. There is much discussion and debate about peak oil and the broad impact it will have on our energy-hungry global society. But we are facing other peaks which will ultimately have even more devastating consequences. In a three part series, I would like to cover peak water, peak oil and peak wheat. I look forward to reading your posting on the topics and hearing each of you communicate what you think would happen if we reached peak on all three of them at the same time...
For the rest of the article please go to:
http://blog.valcent.net/?p=392
Water Conservation Award earned by SMART Watering Systems!
January 7 2009.
SWS commissions over 400,000 litres of Rainwater harvesting!
January 1 2009.
Robert Cooke & Matthew Sandink earn CWCM-L from IA!
January 1 2009.
Since 2007, SWS customers have saved over 100,000,000 litres
December 25 2008.
Chris Le Conte, Featured in SMART Irrigation Cover Story!
July 8 2008.