Patel Center for Global Solutions, University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
Project
Patel Center Rainwater Harvesting Project For Toilet Flushing
The Patel Center is the first LEED certified building at the University of South Florida, and sustainable water practices were an important objective for the building’s steward. The University contacted Wahaso to design and build a system that would take captured rooftop water and harvest it to flush toilets in the building.
Challenge
With an estimated occupancy of 700 students and 70 teachers and employees per day, the system needed to capture, store and treat enough rainwater to meet the demand of 1,400 gallons per day and over 1,000 flushes.
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Project Details
LOCATION
South Florida, Tampa, FL
CLIENT
University of South Florida
DESIGN & SPECIALTY
Plumbing Engineer, Civil Engineer, Commercial Contractors, Commercial Architect
BUILDING TYPE
Educational
SYSTEM TYPE
Rooftop Rainwater to Flush Toilets
COMMISSIONING DATE
September, 2010
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Solution
Wahaso sized the system to store 30,000 gallons of rainwater filtered from the roof in a single fiberglass tank built by Containment Solutions. The high-capacity pumps were housed in a wet vault located below grade next to the tank. This helped minimize the amount of utility space required by Wahaso’s processing system.
Results
The building was commissioned late 2010 and is expected to save the university over 350,000 gallons per year of municipal water.
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