{"id":265017,"date":"2018-08-17T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=265017"},"modified":"2018-08-17T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:45:12","slug":"one-of-the-largest-corporate-office-parks-in-south-africa-just-went-off-the-water-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/265017\/one-of-the-largest-corporate-office-parks-in-south-africa-just-went-off-the-water-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the largest corporate office parks in South Africa just went off the water grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Mutual has announced that its Mutualpark offices in Pinelands, Cape Town is now operating off the water grid.<\/p>\n<p>According to Old Mutual, Mutualpark is one of the largest corporate offices in South Africa currently covering 166,000m\u00b2 and housing 9,000 employees and contractors.<\/p>\n<p>The banking group has managed to get off the grid after it introduced the very first corporate-based waste-to-drinking Water Filtration Plant in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The launch of this waste-to-drinking Water Filtration Plant is providing a potential water-saving for the city of approximately 10 to 15,000 kilolitres a month,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Old Mutual, the filtration plant is earmarked to be office park\u2019s main water source.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has the capacity to produce between 650,000 and 800,000 litres a day. Mutualpark\u2019s average consumption is about 450,000 litres of water a day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been piloting the plant since July 2018 and the results have been impressive. Not only is it contributing towards essential water conservation in the drought-stricken Western Cape, it has also encouraged a wonderful uptake in community involvement and participation in some of our water-saving initiatives,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Through a range of effective water saving initiatives introduced since the beginning of 2016, water consumption at Mutualpark was reduced by 30% before the launch of the Water Filtration Plant, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the water conservation initiatives implemented by Old Mutual include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Electronic meters were installed in critical water use areas to track misuse and trends, and also proactively manage any leaks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Aerators were installed on taps and shower-heads to reduce usage, ultimately reducing water consumption.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Water pressure was optimised to reduce the length of flush time for all toilets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Additional waterless hand sanitisers were installed in all bathrooms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A greywater system to flush toilets was installed at the onsite cr\u00e8che at Mutualpark, Greens\u2019cool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The air-conditioning system has been upgraded to ensure that waste water flushes the toilets. This will eventually mean savings of about 40% (approximately 20 000 litres) of water per day in the heat of summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The air-conditioning units in the Data Centre are now air based.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A water-less carwash was introduced and the water-based carwash upgraded with a water recycling plant that has reduced consumption by 80%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A treated effluent water feed was introduced for irrigation of the sports fields and gardens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/property\/259609\/this-cape-town-building-just-went-completely-off-the-water-grid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Cape Town building just went completely off the water grid<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Mutual has announced that its Mutualpark offices in Pinelands is now operating off the water grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":265021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26,1110],"class_list":["post-265017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-old-mutual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265017"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265915,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265017\/revisions\/265915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}