The Brief
Chiswick Park tasked our partners WhiffAway Group, a market leader in waterless urinal technology, biological solutions and closed systems with reducing its water consumption in conjunction with overcoming inherent washroom odours associated with urinals. It was identified that the urinals were the single largest user of water in the public and staff washrooms, moreover, were a common problem in terms of regularly blocking up, causing flooding, bad odours, leading to washroom downtime and complaints as a result.
The Problem
Urinals that experience heavy usage tend to suffer from intermittent odours, regular blockages, flooding, vandalism and high water consumption. Over a number of years Enjoy-Work had tried a whole host of other products, including enzymes, chemical dosing systems, reduced flushing, biological sleeves and other waterless urinals, but none had worked satisfactory.
The Solution
Our partners at WhiffAway have developed the ‘Water-Warrior’ System is the market leading retro-fit solution and is completely waterless, dual patented and cost effective. The unique non-return valve ensures that odours are not emitted from within the pipe work through intermittent back pressure.
Furthermore, the patented cartridge contains a proprietry malodour counteractant to tackle surface odours and a ‘friendly’ biological consortia, engineered to produce enzymes amongst other functions that help break down the formation of uric salts, so they cannot solidify and cause frequent blockages.
The ‘Water-Warrior’ technology is also complimented with a turn-key initial installation, planned preventative maintenance and a reactive support package, carried out by WhiffAway Groups in-house trained technicians. Delivering an ongoing duty of care to customers and staff was essential given the high profile nature of the campus.
The Result:
Enjoy-Work agreed to trial the ‘Water-Warrior’ System in the busiest and
most problematic gentleman’s washroom on the Chiswick Park campus.
Elimination of smells
There were no bad odours reported by staff or visitors, as previously experienced.
There were no bad odours reported by staff or visitors, as previously experienced.
Blockages
There have been no blockages
due to build up in the urinals
common pipe work. There has
been no urinal flooding and this
radically reduced washroom
downtime, leading to other hidden
operational savings.
Water usage
The urinal water usage was completely eradicated whilst improving urinal hygiene
and overall cleanliness.
The Conclusion
“We installed the Water-Warrior Waterless Urinals across the park and have seen staggering water savings of around 60%. We also installed energy efficient hand dryers to get rid of the 9 million paper towels we were using each year” (Sustainability, Enjoy Work: Sustainable Washrooms)
The installation of the ‘Water Warrior’ System across the Chiswick Park campus (113 urinals) has resulted in a significant reduction in urinal maintenance, an elimination of urinal odours and estimated annual savings of:
Statistics
Net Cost Saving
Annual Water Saving
Annual Carbon
Footprint Reduction
Payback Period
£42,760.39
28,888.49M
4658.25Kg
Less than 6 months
per annum and incrementally rising
(23,888,490 litres)
Less than 9 months
