Building Wellness & Energy Efficiency

The movement in healthy buildings and standards are changing the way we view water filtration. Puretec is delivering solutions that refine the relatedness between buildings and health, productivity and wellbeing.

As a natural advancement from sustainable buildings, wellness is progressively being undertaken to improve the health and wellbeing of its people, which improves employee efficiency and performance.

Puretec works with wellness and energy assessments, audits and certifications. We have products and solutions well suited to the WELL Building StandardTM – a performance-based system for measuring, certifying, and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and wellbeing, through air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort and mind.

You would be very surprised to know what contaminants can be present in the most pristine waters. Buildings no matter what the shape or size either provide safe water or otherwise. The healthiest building can be let down by its water quality and that is why Puretec goes the extra mile in our mission within our reach to ensure that all citizens receive water that is safe and healthy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the top causes of disease outbreaks related to drinking water are Giardia intestinalis, hepatitis A, norovirus, and Shigella. Bad as that sounds, it’s far from a complete list. There are also health risks related to water contaminated with organic and inorganic matter, other bacteria and viruses, and other pollutants. Safe water is the key to life — and the key to your good project! Water has so many health benefits that the CDC recommends drinking 10 glasses of water a day. It is not hard to meet this if you recognize that hydration can be achieved anywhere it is desired in your project.

Good water is good for your hydraulic design too. Over time studies have found that adding a water filter helps water heaters and major appliances operate as efficiently as possible while preventing clogs in showerheads, tapware, and drains. One study ran dishwashers and washing machines for 30 days and 240 wash cycles. They ran filtered water through half of the units while using the raw mains water source for the others. At the end of the month, the washers using filtered water were nearly free of buildup, but the washers using unfiltered mains water required scale removal to work well. In the same study, researching the usage of different water qualities for water heaters, it was found that when they used filtered water, the units maintained their original factory efficiency rating for as long as 15 years. Running raw mains water through the units cut efficiency by up to 48%. Build-up shortened the lifespan of the heating elements inside electric water heaters, and some tankless water heaters using hard water failed after just 1.6 years! Filtered water can save your client enormous amounts of money and provide huge efficiencies by keeping appliances at top efficiency, and making them last longer. Save appliances, save money, and save the planet, too. If you’re using less energy, you’re reducing your carbon footprint. And if you’re using less detergent, that means less is going down the drain, reducing harm to the environment.

Australians spend more than half a billion dollars a year on bottled water, and more negative light has been shone on the product with regard to its life cycle. It takes so much energy to obtain the water from its source and then produces the bottles that the water is transported in, plus its transport energy, refrigeration energy and recycling that adds to that energy footprint - Only 35% actually gets recycled, most bottles end up in landfills. Recently, some councils areas have made the decision to discourage the use of bottled water. As the negative aspects of bottled water accrue, the convenience of buying bottled water is becoming less important than taking a few minutes to prepare your own re-usable bottle from the tap or filtered source.

At Puretec, we provide Australian and New Zealand businesses with the highest quality water filters in the nation, so your valued clients & customers can enjoy clean drinking water from every tap in your facility. Contact us today for more information on how a Puretec water filter can improve your facility's water quality.