Washroom water savings from Green Building Store

Washroom facilities from Green Building Store has helped Metro to cut water usage and reduce costs at three West Yorkshire bus stations.

Huddersfield bus station now saves GBP7, 500 a year using these water-saving products, broken down into GBP6, 500 through water saving and GBP1,000 in washroom maintenance savings.

This follows similar improvements by Green Building Store at Metro's bus stations in Dewsbury and Halifax.

Following the installation of Green Building Store's water-saving WCs and urinals, water consumption has dropped by up to 40 per cent.

Green Building Store's ES4 4 litre flush WCs and Airflush waterless urinal system at the bus stations have been installed between 2007-2009, with the most recent refurbishment taking place at Huddersfield.

Helen Schofield, Huddersfield bus station manager, said: "The previous toilets were getting blocked regularly and we had to call out a maintenance contractor to unblock them about once a month".

"This was costing upwards of GBP100 per time and causing disruption to passengers".

"We were also struggling to eliminate odour problems".

In February 2009, Huddersfield's washrooms were replaced by 9 ES4 WCs and 6 Airflush urinals from Green Building Store's water-saving products range.

In the year since installation, the results have been dramatic.

Helen Schofield added: "The initial cost of purchase of the water-saving products has been more than paid back by savings in water and maintenance bills within the first year of installation".

The refurbishment has also resolved the odour problem caused by the old urinals.

The Airflush urinals from Green Building Store have a waterless system, which doesn't need any consumables, cartridges or oils.

It combines an ergonomically designed urinal bowl with a small integral low wattage fan, which creates negative pressure, maintaining a gentle flow of air down the urinal bowls and removing all odour.

Green Building Store's water-efficient ES4 toilet works by having an ultra low 4 litre flush combined with a robust siphon flush mechanism, so the toilets will never leak water down the pan (unlike conventional low flush WCs which use valve flush mechanisms).

It has a Swedish-designed toilet pan, specially designed to work effectively with low flush volume, combined with a British-made cistern.

The WC is on the Government's Water Technology list, and has also been approved by the Water Regulations Advisory Scheme (WRAS).

Green Building Store has just launched a water-saving washroom pack, which includes the ES4 WC and Airflush urinal, as well as a range of water-saving taps, designed for washroom situations.

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