SIPHONIC ROOF DRAINAGE
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- General Motors LDT, Lansing, Michigan
1st Automotive plant in the worrld to achive LEED certification for advances such as Rainwater harvesting. Consisting of a Siphonic Roof Drain System and storage tanks. These non-potable water systems were then pumped to toilet rooms saving 4.1 million gallons per year.
- U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters, Suitland, Maryland
- Chrysler, Trenton, Michigan
- General Motors, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- NADEV, Fremont, California
- Target Store, Central Texas
- General Motors Engine Plant, Flint, Michigan
- GETRAG Transmission Plant, Tipton, Indiana
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Advantages
Smaller pipe sizes
- Material cost savings
- Labor cost savings
- Equipment cost savings
- Reduce / eliminate wall furring
- Conceal pipes
- Save valuable square footage
Level horizontal pipes
- Raise ceiling heights
- Lower building heights
- Reduce coordination
- Labor cost savings
- Minimize pipe bracing
- Reduce / eliminate conflicts
- Reduced water depth on the roof
- Higher self scouring velocities
- Adaptable configurations
- Virtually any pipe material
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